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...Dorothy Gish, like her sister Lilian, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and Charlie Chaplin, was a matinee idol in the golden era of American film making. She recently celebrated her sixtieth year as an actress and has had a distinguished stage career in addition to her movie credits. Her last visit to Boston was in 1940, when she was touring in Life With Father, and she is currently playing a character role in Otto Preminger's The Cardinal which is being filmed locally...

Author: By Charles S. Whitman, | Title: Dorothy Gish | 3/12/1963 | See Source »

Show of the Week (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Cyril Ritchard is "Chief Admirer" in a show documenting female beauty throughout history. Other commentators: Zsa Zsa Gabor, Ruby Dee, Lillian Gish, Anita Colby, Lydia Prochnicka, Katherine Anne Porter, Jimmy Durante, Alexander King, Richard Brooks, Pierre Olaf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mar. 30, 1962 | 3/30/1962 | See Source »

Birth of a Nation, the 1915 D. L. Griffith film classic starring Lillian Gish, purports to tell the story of the South's post-Civil War struggles against carpetbaggers from the North...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: N.A.A.C.P. May Protest Showing of Film | 10/13/1961 | See Source »

Theater '62 (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). PREMIÈRE. A series of eight dramatizations of David O. Selznick "screen classics." The first, "The Spiral Staircase," starring Lillian Gish, treats of a psychopathic killer. Color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Oct. 6, 1961 | 10/6/1961 | See Source »

...stand his financial patrons, blue-rinsed resident grandes dames who look like Gilbert Stuart's George Washington. One of them collects bones. Another once threatened loudly that the improvements-minded Currier must never think of destroying a small, one-story extension that contained the backstage toilets, since "the Gish sisters used them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Straw Hat: To Be Announced | 7/28/1961 | See Source »

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