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Gish mascots with year3/19/2024 ![]() ![]() Back when press notices were honor enough that there was less likely need to make up the actual coverage.īy the way, I'm only a few chapters into the Affron book having just picked it up yesterday but I must say I'm impressed so far. That's why I've been trying to stick to the earliest clippings I can find in this series. Longer form biographical coverage of Lillian Gish began in the 1920's and she continued telling her own story throughout her long life. ![]() In the process some details beyond her age got fudged. Recent Gish biographer Charles Affron notes that "To celebrate the art that defined her, Lillian participated obsessively in the telling of her life by others and told it herself as often as people would read or listen" (14). She was born in 1893 and would presumably still be healing on her ninth birthday, October 14. Wow, they even got her age right! Gish often gave her date of birth as 1896 or even 1898. The powder from the blank cartridge entered her leg. MARION - Miss Lillian Gish, age 8, was taking part in a play when she was painfully injured by the accidental discharge of a revolver. On to the old papers: We Need Some Safety Regulations! We're still friends and it still comes up! She'd be the lovely lady who made Silent Film modern enough to allow me to push tapes of old movies into my VCR whenever that particular friend stopped to visit! (Tapes with old tyme "hot chicks," at least!) Thank you, Lillian Gish, for allowing me to share the classics with friends at an age where potential peer pressure could have easily put on hold a passion which continues to this day!īy the way, my friend liked the famous climax with the ice floes too. "Who was that beautiful actress?" he asked. But he'd fallen in love with leading lady Lillian Gish. Well, not so much about Way Down East itself as PBS had aired it the night before and he had watched. About twenty-five years ago a high school buddy who knew I liked old movies caught up with me one morning to ask about Way Down East. ![]()
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