#(romola)

[eirene]

Romola, 1924 Eric Rohman

[naldibutnice]

Dorothy Gish by Kenneth Alexander for Romola (1924)

[yestergaze]

A publicity photo of Lillian Gish and her sister, Dorothy Gish, for the movie Romola (1924) based on the George Eliot novel from 1863. Directed by Henry King, the cast also included William Powell and Ronald Colman.  Critics agreed the movie filmed in Italy was beautifully shot, but it fared poorly at the box office due to its lack of melodramatic appeal.  The lack of interest among movie-goers reflected the failure of the filmmakers to endow Gish’s role with dramatic intensity.  The film was not a financial success and led to a period of declining box office pull for Lillian Gish in the mid-1920s. 

[bethanydelleman]

The great river-courses which have shaped the lives of men have hardly changed; and those other streams, the life-currents that ebb and flow in human hearts, pulsate to the same great needs, the same great loves and terrors. As our thought follows close in the slow wake of the dawn, we are impressed with the broad sameness of the human lot, which never alters in the main headings of its history—hunger and labour, seed-time and harvest, love and death.

Romola, George Eliot

George Eliot in 1863 writing about Italians in 1492 and being like, "You may find this shocking, but people were always people, even these centuries dead Catholic Italians" and she was so right about that

[alexlacquemanne]

Happy Birthday Romola ❤️

[bygone-hollywood]

Lillian Gish in “Romola” (1924)

[adrian-paul-botta]

Lillian Gish and sculptor Gleb Derujinsky 1924 (bust of her Romola is now in the collection of Washington's National Portrait Gallery)

[roughridingrednecks]

Romola