Editing Corinne Griffith (section)

===1965–1979: Claims about identity and final years===
In February 1965, she married her fourth husband, Broadway actor Danny Scholl in Alexandria, Virginia.<ref name=kiss>{{cite news|work=[[The Tampa Tribune]]|location=Tampa, Florida|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/37012076/the_tampa_tribune/|date=May 15, 1966|via=Newspapers.com|page=10-A|title=Hubby Loses Alimony Plea, Actress Wins Her Divorce|agency=United Press International}}</ref> Scholl was 44 years old, more than 25 years younger than Griffith.<ref name=kiss/> The couple separated after two months of marriage.<ref name=kiss/> Within the year, Griffith filed for a divorce after a judge denied her motion for an annulment; she contended that the marriage had not been consummated.<ref name=kiss/> Pending trial, she was ordered to pay Scholl alimony of $200 per month beginning in December 1964.<ref name=kiss/>

During the divorce court proceedings in May 1966,<ref name=kiss/> Griffith testified that she was actually not Corinne Griffith. She instead claimed that she was Corinne's younger sister, who, although twenty years younger, had taken Corinne's place when she died in 1924.{{sfn|Higham|2004|pages=131–132}} She also denied having married her former two husbands, Webster Campbell and Walter Morosco.<ref name=stand>{{cite news|work=[[The Tampa Tribune]]|title=Divorce Puzzler: Will Real Corinne Griffith Please Stand Up?|location=Tampa, Florida|agency=United Press International|date=May 6, 1966|page=9|via=Newspapers.com|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/37012372/the_tampa_tribune/}}</ref> In court, Scholl's attorney proposed that Griffith had falsified her age in the couple's marriage documents as well as failed to disclose her previous two marriages.<ref name=stand/> Upon being questioned about her age, Griffith refused to comment, stating that her religion, [[Christian Science]], prevented her from publicly disclosing it.{{sfn|Slide|2010|p=169}} She also claimed not to have kept record of her age since she was 13 years old.<ref name=stand/> Actresses [[Betty Blythe]] and [[Claire Windsor]], who had both known Griffith since the 1920s, contradicted her testimony, but did not shake her story, and she continued to claim that she was in fact Corinne's sister.{{sfn|Pylant|2014|p=207}}{{sfn|Higham|2004|p=14}}

In a subsequent interview, Griffith further complicated her story, claiming to be Corinne's twin named Mary, rather than her younger sister: 
{{blockquote|I am Mary Griffith. Her twin sister. Let me explain. She, Corinne, was starring in a film in Mexico in 1920. She was stricken by a mysterious local malady and died suddenly at age twenty-four. Mr. Adolph Zukor, head of Paramount, called me in person and told me I must save the day; a cancellation of the picture would be a disaster for the studio. He told me what had happened; I cried and cried. He said I must pull myself together: there was a million dollars in it if I would become my sister. I had never acted and didn't want to act. But I couldn't resist the money, and I felt Corinne would want me to help. So I went to Mexico and took over, and nobody knew the difference. From then on, I was Corinne Griffith.{{sfn|Higham|2004|p=132}}}}

In the same interview, she stated that Corinne had been buried in an unmarked grave in Mexico.{{sfn|Higham|2004|p=132}}

Following the publicity surrounding her divorce and identity claims, Griffith spent the remainder of her years writing. In 1969, she published ''Not for Men Only – but Almost'', a non-fiction book detailing the appeal of sports to men and its lack of appeal for most women.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/37025536/the_news_journal/|work=[[The News Journal]]|location=Wilmington, Delaware|title=Sports Bookshelf|date=December 18, 1969|page=68|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> She published another collection of personal non-fiction stories titled ''This You Won't Believe'' in 1972.{{sfn|Slide|2010|p=169}} Her final book ''I'm Lucky at Cards'' (1974) was a book of her essays.{{sfn|Addis|1983|p=194}}