Similarities. Differences. Judgements.

What are your thoughts on me and my work?

Here I am in one of my most famous films, The Scarlet Letter.  It was much harder to play a "harlot" than it looks! 

. "The Scarlet Letter - Lillian Gish - 1926." Youtube. N.p., 2010. Web. 6 Apr 2012.

My mentor, friend, and director.  D.W. Griffith, always handsome, always just a bit strange.  I owe my career to him and I truly can't thank him enough.  Through my eyes he will always be the man in the picture above, no matter how old or mean he gets.  Thank you D.W., you're truly the best.

Aberdeen, J.A.. "D.W. Griffith: Hollywood Independent."Hollywood Renegades Archive. N.p., 2005. Web. 6 Apr 2012.

Here is a photo of my mother, Mary, my sister, Doatsie, and I.  This was just after Doatsie and I got into our first films.  I love them both so much.

. "Mothic Flights and Flutterings." Tumblr. N.p., 2011. Web. 6 Apr 2012.

Broken Blossoms, directed by D.W Griffith.  This was one of my first and most intense films.  I am truly grateful for the experience and the opportunities I received from being in this beautiful movie.

. "Broken Blossoms ~ Lillian Gish ~ Richard Barthelmess."Youtube. N.p., 2007. Web. 6 Apr 2012.

Here I am introducing the film The Wind.  I am immensely proud in my work in this movie.  I got to star in this movie with the wonderful Lars Hanson.  Victor Sjöström, the director, taught me much.  Great thanks to both of these magnificent men.


. "The Wind presented by Lillian Gish." Youtube. N.p., 2010. Web. 6 Apr 2012.

"I believe that marriage is a career in itself. I have preferred a stage career to a marriage career." (1939)


I am quite a strong headed women, if this quote is any indication. I have been told that I'm feisty but delicate at the same time. I take pride in that!


Gish, Lillian. "Lillian Gish Quotes." Lucy Who. lucywho.com, 2011. Web. 6 Apr 2012. <http://quotes.lucywho.com/lillian-gish-quotes-t32382.html>.

Biograph Studios, where I got my first film job and met D.W Griffith.  These studios brought me life and happiness.  I still remember the first time I walked in those doors, and the first time I left through them, jumping for joy.

Drew, William M.. "Early Hollywood;Films and Movie Stars." William M. Drew. N.p., 2009. Web. 6      Apr 2012.

Review/Television; Lillian Gish Looks Back on a Century

By JOHN J. O'CONNOR
Published: July 11, 1988

You can't get off to a better start than Lillian Gish, now in her 90's and still managing to hit just the right balance between fragility and feistiness. Beginning its second season on public television, tonight at 9 on Channel 13, ''American Masters'' is presenting ''Lillian Gish: The Actor's Life for Me.'' Produced and directed by Terry Sanders, the hourlong film offers a profile of Miss Gish as ''told in her own memories, thoughts and words.'' The narrator is Eva Marie Saint. The opening moments are worrying as we watch Miss Gish board a jetliner and settle in for what looks suspiciously like a journey into tired devices. But it seems that the point of this elaborate setup is merely to illustrate the length of Miss Gish's ''journey across the 20th century.''

Miss Saint notes that when 5-year-old Lillian made her stage debut in 1902, ''it was the year before Kitty Hawk, when another debut would take place - Orville and Wilbur Wright flying for the first time with an engine into the trackless skies.'' That bit of contrivance out of the way, Miss Gish takes over, sitting for a straightforward interview that is illustrated generously with film clips from her life and career.

Very much the accomplished woman, Miss Gish is capable of being proper, sentimental and tough as nails, often all at the same time. Her early years as a child actor actress would seem to be strained, if not harrowing, yet she insists that she grew up in a ''beautiful, kind, unselfish world,'' a world in which her mother was ''the most perfect human being'' she would ever know.

And then there is D. W. Griffith, the legendary director she would meet in 1913. Miss Gish would become his perfect heroine, starring in ''The Birth of a Nation'' (1915), ''Intolerance'' (1916), ''Broken Blossoms'' (1919), ''Way Down East'' (1920), and ''Orphans of the Storm'' (1922).

Her devotion to Griffith remains undiminished. She recalls how the director had ''given films their form and grammar.'' He worked with no scripts in the early days. Everything was in his head, Miss Gish says, and ''it was up to you to find the character.'' She has no patience with Method actors who insist on the necessity of first-hand experiences. ''If you haven't the imagination to be that character,'' declares Miss Gish, ''go into some other business.''

This is a wonderfully written article by John O'Connor.  He has written many articles about my life and legend before.  

O'Connor, John. "Review/Television; Lillian Gish Looks Back on a Century." New York Times. N.p., 1988. Web. 6 Apr 2012.

  

This dress was one of my favorites, however it wasn't what was "in style" at the time.  The way I see it is that, I've never been in style, so I can't go out of style.


. blogspot, 2011. Web. 6 Apr 2012.

This is a photo of me in my first film, An Unseen Enemy.  As you can see I was a bit frightened in this 
shot.  I played "Sister" in this movie.  I do realize the character is not very descriptive but I was just happy to have gotten the part!


. blogspot, 2011. Web. 6 Apr 2012.