Word: gish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Madame Pompadour. Dorothy Gish flickered to fame as a saucy heroine of the common people. Now, snatched from her natural background, she is seen in 18th Century regalia exercising shop girlish charms to enslave King Louis XV of France. As might have been predicted by pessimists, the Mme. Pompadour of the infant industry is no resourceful siren but a sweet, good lass in love with a poor artist. It was Fate which pushed her into a palace...
Engagement Denied. Lillian Gish, 31, famed cinemactress, to George Jean Nathan, 45, dramatic critic, contributing editor of the American Mercury. Said both: "We are good friends. That...
Others of the clay frontierswomen are as frail as Lillian Gish (F. Lynn Jenkins'), as strong as Abe Lincoln (James Fraser's), cute as Ann Pennington (Mario Korbel's), homely as Will Rogers (Mahonri Young's), expressionless as the Venus de Milo (Arthur...
Twinkletoes (Colleen Moore). In this film with an English setting, Colleen Moore, wearing a blonde wig, looks like Lillian Gish, enacts a limehouse lily as Dorothy Gish would (TIME, Nov. 8). A peppery toe-dancer, she leaps to the heart of Prizefighter Chuck Lightfoot, who is so severely jabbed that he counters by helping Twinkletoe's rascally parent (Tully Marshall) out of a counterfeit crime, and himself into the hands of the police. Then, a subtitle records the passage of a year and a happy ending. Colleen Moore entertains...
London (Dorothy Gish). According to this picture, from Thomas Burke's Limehouse saga, all a girl needs is the right environment. Plump Dorothy Gish is on the verge of being sold to a Chinaman for three pounds sterling- dirt cheap at the price, too. Fleeing the yellow peril, Dorothy faints in front of a high class a la carte restaurant, is adopted by a sympathetic, wealthy family, marries a good-looking artist...