Lillian Gish Close-Up

According to director Lindsay Anderson, one day he said to Lillian Gish, "Miss Gish, you have just given me a perfect close-up." Bette Davis observed, "She should. She invented 'em." (The Whales of August - 1987)


































































































































































































































































































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