#lillian gish

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Lillian Gish in La Bohème (1926)

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Beautiful Lillian Gish 🌹

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Japanese magazine advertisements for The Wind (1928)

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Lillian Gish and Lars Hanson in The Scarlet Letter (1926)

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Lord save little children. The wind blows, and the rains are cold. Yet they abide.

The Night of the Hunter (1955) dir. Charles Laughton

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Lillian Gish was a pioneering figure in American cinema, often referred to as the "First Lady of the Silent Screen."

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Lillian Gish

October 14, 1893 – February 27, 1993

☆ 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.

Her leading role was in the highest-grossing film of the silent era, Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1915).

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 movie star of classical Hollywood cinema.

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"Lord, you sure knew what you were doing when you brung me to this very cell at this very time. A man with ten thousand dollars his somewhere, and a widder in the makin´ ."

The Night of the Hunter (1955)

Director. Charles Laughton.