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Gigi Parrish
Acting
30 Aug 1912
† 08 Feb 2006
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Biography
From Wikipedia Gigi Parrish was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts as Katherine Gertrude McElroy, and raised in Hartford, Connecticut. Her mother died in 1918, and McElroy and her siblings were put up for adoption. After adoption by a wealthy family, she and her step-siblings were tutored by author Dillwyn Parrish. Although he was eighteen years her senior, the two fell in love, and at the age of fifteen she married Parrish, under the name Gertrude McElroy. For their honeymoon, she and her husba...
Also Known As
Katherine Gertrude McElroy, Gertrude McElroy, Gi-Gi Parrish, Katherine Weld






