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Gish, Lillian (1893-1993)Both frail and tough, innocent and powerful, charming and serious, actress Lillian Gish has defied both categorization and convention. Best known for her work with director D. W. Griffith, in her younger years Gish portrayed pale, waiflike heroines who used emotional strength, hard work, and persistence to protect their chastity—and spirit—from destruction at the ...
Mar 1, 1993 · Lillian Gish, 99, a fragile-looking but resilient actress with a deceptive and powerful talent who had appeared in more than 100 films in a career that stretched from the silent era to the age of ...
Nov 23, 2010 · Lillian Gish in The Night of the Hunter. 1955. USA. Directed by Charles Laughton. From November 26 through December 13, our Lillian Gish retrospective gives audiences an opportunity to sample Gish’s films, from her first silent short, An Unseen Enemy (1912), to her last film, The Whales of August (1987). MoMA’s last retrospective of Gish ...
Lillian Diana Gish ( Springfield, 14 de outubro de 1893 — Nova Iorque, 27 de fevereiro de 1993) foi uma pioneira atriz norte-americana do cinema e do teatro, além de diretora e escritora. Ela é amplamente considerada a maior atriz da era do cinema mudo, [ 1] e uma das maiores de toda a história. [ 2] Sua carreira no cinema durou 75 anos ...
Jun 11, 2018 · Lillian Diana Gish was born on October 14, 1893 (some sources say 1896), in Springfield, Ohio. She was the eldest of two daughters born to James Lee Gish and his wife, Mary Robinson McConnell. Gish's father was a candy salesman, who had previously worked in the grocery business. When his daughters were toddlers, he moved his family to Baltimore ...
Lillian Gish. Actor, Writer, Director, Producer. Born October 14, 1893 in Springfield, Ohio, USA. Lillian Diana Gish was born on October 14, 1893, in Springfield, Ohio. Her father, James Lee Gish, was an alcoholic who caroused, was rarely at home., and left the family to, more or less, fend for themselves. To help make ends meet, Lillian, her ...
Gish kept herself busy in later years with television appearances, writing two autobiographies, and acting on stage now and again. Lillian Gish died at the age of 99, after a 75 year-long career that included appearances in more than 100 films. Her last film was The Whales of August, costarring Bette Davis.
