Griffith's Later Life

After Intolerance Griffith made other outstanding movies including Broken Blossoms, 1919 and Way Down East, 1920.

However, he never really recovered financially from Intolerance and did not change with the times.

By the 1920s, his moralistic and melodramatic movies did not play well. Griffith continued to make movies in the 1920s but after Orphans of the Storm (1921) his films were not successful. He attempted to make sound films in 1930 and 1931, but again, unsuccessfully.

He made his last film in 1931. He was occasionally asked for help and advice by new Hollywood talent, and he was trotted out for special awards and occasions. However, he lived alone in a room at the Knickerbocker Hotel. Where he died in 1948.