Word: gish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wind: Lillian Gish's best picture in eight years. Shadows of Fear: French adaptation of a Zola murder story. Show People: Marion Davies turns the camera on itself, herself, her Hollywood friends. While the City Sleeps: Lon Chaney as a bloodhound with bunions. White Shadows in the South Seas: Fun among the sharks. The Singing Fool: Al Jolson's larynx. Dry Martini: Ritz bar (Paris) barians...
...have taken a toy and made it into a trade. . . . Primarily I am a chemist. I have little or no time to go to the cinema. ... I do not think I have ever seen or heard before of the women you call 'Clara Bow' and 'Lillian Gish.' ... I myself turned the crank when my brother and I took our first motion picture. It was of Auguste sculling our rowboat across the River Rhone...
...Wind: Lillian Gish's lovely acting in a good prairie-story; White Shadows in the South Seas: Photography and natives; While the City Sleeps: Lon Chancy with a detective's badge and his own teeth; The Singing Fool (Jolson): Mammy on the Vitaphone; Kriemhild's Revenge: A sequel to Siegfried...
...give her lunch in a $35,000 stucco bungalow; she gets dressed in a room on wheels. She is not married but plots to get other people married. When Lindbergh visited Los Angeles, she was the only cinema star who entertained him. At parties she gives imitations of Lillian Gish (in suspense), Jetta Goudal (with horsehair), the Prince of Wales (fatigued), Mae Murray (lip) and herself. Two years ago, becoming 30, she turned comedian...
...Dorothy Gish is cast in Young Love as a tempestuous and idealistic latter-day maiden striving to assure marital congeniality by pre-nuptial experiment. In the first few lines, she and her fiancé express satisfaction with last night's trial. To make it doubly sure, they exchange partners with their unconsulted host and hostess. Miss Gish completes an affair with host, but fiancé quails before hostess. Then follow two acts of confessions, recriminations, door-slammings, to end with four-way felicity the way it should be (according to the movies). Despite such items as "I love...