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Way Down East is a 1920 American silent romantic drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Lillian Gish. It is one of four film adaptations of the melodramatic 19th century play of the same name by Lottie Blair Parker. There were two earlier silent versions and one sound version in 1935 starring Henry Fonda. [3]
Way Down East: Directed by D.W. Griffith. With Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Mrs. David Landau, Lowell Sherman. A naive country girl is tricked into a sham marriage by a wealthy womanizer, then must rebuild her life despite the taint of having borne a child out of wedlock.
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- Drama, Romance
- D.W. Griffith
- 1920-09-03
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The money sequence in D.W. Griffith's Way Down East is no less thrillingly gasp-inducing today than it was when the film opened in 1920. In it, Lillian Gish's victimized, pure-hearted heroine, banished from her rural Eden of a New England farm, clad only in a shawl and a thin woolen dress, staggers distraught into a blizzard and faints on an ice floe.
- D. W. Griffith
- Lillian Gish
Aug 19, 2016 · Lowell Sherman and Lillian Gish in Way Down East (1920) “Audiences want to see a real blizzard, not a sub-title with a two sentence description. If this film was going to work, the audiences wanted to see the real thing. Otherwise, whatever we did would be laughable,” worried Gish. And she was right to be concerned.
May 3, 2024 · Lillian Gish, c. 1915. Lillian Gish and Henry B. Walthall in The Birth of a Nation (1915), directed by D.W. Griffith. Gish grew up from roughly 1900 in New York City and made her stage debut at age five. During Lillian and Dorothy’s years as child actresses, they formed close friendships with Mary Pickford (then still known as Gladys Mary ...
Gish posed as Elaine of Astolat in Way Down East. A retrospective of Gish's life and achievements was showcased in an episode of the Emmy award-winning PBS series, American Masters. The AllMovie Guide wrote on her legacy: Lillian Gish is considered the movie industry's first true actress.