“Every time you and Ronnie open your mouths you echo my thoughts.”
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Lillian Gish
Lillian Diana Gish was an American actress best known for her work in movies of the silent era. Her film-acting career spanned 75 years, from 1912, in silent film shorts, to 1987. Gish was dubbed the "First Lady of the Screen" by Vanity Fair in 1927 and is credited with pioneering fundamental film performance techniques. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Gish as the 17th-greatest female…
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Born 14 October 1893 · Died 27 February 1993 · Q104183
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2026· 1 entry
2024· 1 entry
East West Players in Los Angeles produced Unbroken Blossoms, a play depicting the making of Broken Blossoms
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1999· 1 entry
The American Film Institute ranked Gish as the 17th-greatest female movie star of classical Hollywood cinema
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1993· 2 entries
Died 1993-02-27.
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“You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father, and finally he played my husband. If he had lived I'm sure I would have played his mother. That's the way it is in Hollywood. The men get younger and the women get older.”
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1987· 2 entries
Awarded National Board of Review Award for Best Actress for The Whales of August (1987).
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At the age of 94, with Vincent Price, Bette Davis, and Ann Sothern, in which Gish and Davis starred as elderly sisters in Maine
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1984· 2 entries
Awarded AFI Life Achievement Award (1984).
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Received an American Film Institute Lifetime Achievement Award, becoming only the second female recipient (preceded by Bette Davis in 1977) and the only recipient who was a major figure in the silent era
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1982· 2 entries
Awarded Kennedy Center Honors (1982).
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The University accepted a collection of Gish films and photographs that had previously been displayed at the Museum of Modern Art
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1980· 1 entry
Awarded Ohio Women's Hall of Fame (1980).
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1979· 3 entries
Awarded Crystal Award (1979).
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Was awarded the Women in film Crystal Award in Los Angeles
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Introduced The Wind at a screening at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles
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1975· 1 entry
Hosted The Silent Years, a PBS film program of silent films
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1971· 3 entries
And in 1984 she received an AFI Life Achievement Award
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Was awarded an Academy Honorary Award for her career achievements
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"for superlative artistry and for distinguished contribution to the progress of motion pictures"
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1970· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Honorary Award (1970).
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1955· 1 entry
Was awarded the George Eastman Award, for distinguished contribution to the art of film, at the George Eastman Museum's (then George Eastman House's) inaugural Festival of Film Artists
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1951· 1 entry
Starred in an adaptation of Black Chiffon on Playhouse on Broadway
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1949· 1 entry
When she portrayed Abby, a housemaid, in "The Late Christopher Bean", an episode of The Philco Television Playhouse on NBC
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1944· 1 entry
Gish starred in an episode of I Was There, broadcast on CBS
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1927· 1 entry
And is credited with pioneering fundamental film performance techniques
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1926· 1 entry
For six films, for which she was offered $1 million (equivalent to $18
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1925· 2 entries
To take an offer from the recently formed MGM, which gave her more creative control
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As she was seen nibbling on a raw carrot in federal court
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1920· 1 entry
Alfred the footman invites Ivy the kitchen maid to a showing of Way Down East, which she accepts due to being a fan of Lillian Gish
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1913· 1 entry
During a run of A Good Little Devil, she collapsed from anemia
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1912· 2 entries
Their friend Mary Pickford introduced the sisters to Griffith and helped get them contracts with Biograph Studios
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But she had returned to Ohio a few months before this
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1910· 1 entry
The girls were living with their aunt Emily in Massillon, Ohio, when they were notified that their father, James, was gravely ill in Oklahoma
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1902· 1 entry
At the Little Red School House in Risingsun, Ohio
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1893· 2 entries
In Springfield, Ohio, the first child of actress Mary Robinson McConnell, and James Leigh Gish
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Born 1893-10-14.
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