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3 days ago · Lillian Gish, whose portrayals of fragile innocence graced the golden age of silent films, extending into an eight-decade testament to dramatic perpetuity, is dead.Her longtime personal manager, James Frasher said Sunday that the internationally recognized star died in her sleep Saturday night in he...
3 days ago · In cinematic history, no number of superlatives can do justice to the contributions made by the American actress Lilian Gish.Known as the first lady of American Cinema, one of her many titles, including greatest actress of the silent eraand one of the pioneers of female actresses in cinematic histor...
3 days ago · Lillian Gish. Lillian Diana Gish (October 14, 1893 – February 27, 1993) was an American pioneering actress of the screen and stage, as well as a director and writer. Her film acting career spanned 75 years, from 1912, in silent film shorts, to 1987.
5 days ago · Hayden had encouraged her, she said, to return to her alma mater to honor her mentor Lillian Gish. English professor Ralph Wolfe, who introduced film studies to the curriculum, asked her at Gish’s request to return to campus, for the first time since her graduation, to dedicate a photography collection in the Gish Theater in Hanna Hall.
5 days ago · Others are presented with a palpable horror, as Griffith famously taunted Lillian Gish to elicit her performance in the film’s closet scene.
5 days ago · Lillian Gish, Great Star, Great Lady Quiz. Lillian Gish lived to be 99 years old, and in those years, made 105 films, wrote an autobiography, and made thousands of public appearances. She never married nor had children; the cinema was her life. A multiple-choice quiz by RivkahChaya .
1 day ago · On the Texas frontier, as a cattleman explains on a blustery train to our dainty protagonist Letty (Lillian Gish), traveling west to live with her rancher cousin and his suspicious wife, the wind never stops blowing and it “ makes folks go crazy — especially women!”
