Lillian Gish mono-print Suddeutsche Zeitung p - late 60s Germany
Lillian Gish mono-print Suddeutsche Zeitung p - late 60s Germany
LILLIAN GISH – An actor’s life for me – 1987
LILLIAN GISH – An actor’s life for me – 1987 LILLIAN GISH An Actor’s Life for Me! AS TOLD TO SELMA G. LANES An actor’s life for me Text copyright © Lillian Gish and Selma Lanes, 1987 Illustrations copyright © Patricia Henderson Lincoln, 1987 In vivid anecdotes that are funny, heartbreaking, and remarkably evocative of that fascinating period, stage and screen star Lillian Gish tells the story of her childhood years in the American theater at the beginning of the 1900s. From the perspective of nearly a century. Miss Gish recalls the kindness of her fellow actors during a Christmas spent on a train; hilarious—and sometimes frightening—slipups from many performances; the pain of separation from her mother and younger sister; and the thrill of being a professional actor. For every child who has ever wondered about the glamour and excitement of being on the stage, about how and why a person becomes an actor, this remarkable childhood reminiscence offers a unique and lively insight, as...
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