Word: gish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Battle of the Sexes. Fifteen years ago D. W. Griffith presented a picture called The Battle of the Sexes starring Dorothy Gish, now refilmed with modern casts and setting and the original story of a businessman harassed by a professional sweetheart and a tearful wife. Bedroom antics by Don Alvarado and the squirmings on a cushioned floor of Miss Phyllis Haver's stomach supplied an element which kept fingers busy in the box-offices of theatres which showed this picture last week...
...LAUGHS (reviewed in this issue), SADIE THOMPSON (Gloria Swanson and Lionel Barrymore), THE ENEMY (Lillian Gish), THE CROWD (Eleanor Boardman...
...point in the film, Miss Davies gives imitations of Mae Murray, Lillian Gish, Pola Negri, which make her a candidate for Ail-American funnywoman. In private life, she has been known to do an hilarious Charles S. Chaplin...
DRAMATIC Sadie Thompson (Gloria Swanson and Lionel Barrymore), The Enemy (Lillian Gish), The Crowd (Eleanor Boardman...
Brilliant direction by Fred Niblo does much to whip up a story that is pulling a heavy wagon of argument. But most of the credit for making The Enemy an engrossing and beautiful moving picture must go to Actress Lillian Gish, in the role of the wife whom war has robbed. Now 29, Actress Gish appeared on the stage for the first time when she was 4 years old at a salary of $10 weekly. Now she has $8000 a week, a police-dog, a canary, a gluttonous appetite for licorice candy, and a reputation for frail, goldenhaired beauty that...