Word: gish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Romola. There was a general readjusting of critical values after the advent of Romola. It began to be admitted publicly, and by great men, that Lillian Gish is the best of all the picture actresses. True, she does not twang the public heart strings as loudly and as often as Gloria Swanson. Yet she has undoubtedly the most distinguished record of the sisterhood?Birth of a Nation, Broken Blossoms, Way Down East, Orphans of the Storm, The White Sister. There are those who say that, with David W. Griffith and Charles Chaplin, she completes the trio of the only true...
...Majestic (White Star)?Lilian Gish, famed cinema actress; William Dana Orcutt, Boston author...
...Charles Holland Duell, son of the late Judge Charles H. Duell of the U. S. Court of Appeals, and cousin of Elihu Root, by Mrs. Lillian Tucker Duell, onetime actress. She charged that he had refused to renew marital relations. It was rumored that he would marry Miss Lillian Gish, cinema actress...
...Lillian Gish is now somewhere in the vicinity of Gibraltar, en route to Italy, where she will do a film version of George Eliot's Romola...
...White Sister. Lillian Gish can unquestionably wring more salt water out of the American population than any other cinema actress. There is something about her hopeless wistfulness that squeezes sobs from the coldest heart. She brings this something with her in the present picture. For a good cry?go to The White Sister...