whose clear-eyed biography shows Gish carefully cultivating her image with the fan magazines, which always depicted "exquisitely fragile, ethereal" Lillian reading Shakespeare and thinking of ...

Lillian Gish, 99, last of the great silent-film stars who went on to perform for more than 85 years in movies and on stage and television; she made her acting debut at age 5 and later, under the ...

Contents of an apartment that once belonged to silent screen star Lillian Gish sold for $232,127 Friday, nearly twice the expectations of Sotheby’s auction house. Although 29 of the 183 lots ...

Bowling Green State University has removed actress Lillian Gish’s name from a campus theater because of her part in D.W. Griffith‘s Birth of a Nation. Gish starred in the 1915 silent film ...

In the early 20th century, such stars as Gloria Swanson and Lillian Gish began their careers as teenagers. So it shouldn’t be such a surprise for audiences to cheer the performance of Anneliese ...

In a statement Parks said, “To be a recipient of the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize is a great honor. Past winners—I’ve been looking up to them and following in their footsteps for years.

“The Wind” is a story of displacement, ostracization, rape, and insanity. Adapted by Frances Marion from her own novel, the picture was Lilian Gish’s baby from the get-go. An MGM wunderkind, Irving ...

“I’ve always said I would rebuild Babylon for you,” D.W. Griffith told the actress Lillian Gish one day in 1915. “Now I’m going to do it, and make it part of a new story I have ...