STAR GLITTERS – 1980

STAR GLITTERS – 1980

Desert Sun, Number 91, 26 November 1980

STAR GLITTERS

Veteran movie actress Lillian Gish peeps out from behind a bouquet of flowers as she arrives at London’s Phoenix Theater recently. Miss Gish, 84, attended the theater to see the musical “Biograph Girl,” which celebrates the vintage years of silent movies, and tells the stories of Miss Gish, Mary Pickford and pioneer director D.W. Griffith.

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