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  Lillian Gish endorses Disney for Nobel Prize (Chicago Tribune 1963) Chicago Tribune – Wednesday, June 26, 1963 – Page 26 Lillian Gish endorses Disney for Nobel Prize Before Lillian Gish returned to New York, she visited the Disney studio, met Walt, and was guided thru his dream studio. She neglected to tell him that when she visited Stockholm lat year, where the Nobel prizes are given out, she was invited to speak in the city. Among other things, she put in a pitch for Disney to receive a Nobel Prize. We should get back to the idea. I don’t think anybody’s done more than he has [and is] in the field of entertainment to promote decency, morality, and just plain goodness. Disney’s Follow Me Boys – Photo Gallery During the Oslo press conference, Lillian made a comment that got considerable reaction. “I remembered seeing the word Nobel everywhere, and was impudent enough to suggest Disney be given a Nobel prize. The next day it was headlined in the papers. The committee was working o...

  Lauds TV Programs on Lincoln – By Larry Wolters (Chicago Tribune 1956) Chicago Tribune – Monday February 13, 1956 – Page 70 Lauds TV Programs on Lincoln By Larry Wolters Lincoln: Every year television devotes more programs to Lincoln around February 12, and every year the equality of the Lincoln tribute seems to improve. Outstanding this season were two productions: “Good Friday, 1865,” written by John Lewellen of Glen Ellyn for the Robert Montgomery theater of last Monday, and “The Day Lincoln Was Shot,” based on Jim Bishop’s best selling book and presented Saturday night on Ford’s Star Theater [quite different from Ford’s theater in Washington where Lincoln was shot]. Both plays were telecast in color as well as black and white. “Good Friday,” as previously reviewed was a notable production. “The Day Lincoln Was Shot” was even more satisfactory. Produced with the lavish hand of Hollywood, the cast ran to 103 persons, with more than 50 reading lines. It was headed by such actors...

  An Enchanting Annie Laurie in a Black Velvet Dress (Chicago Tribune 1926) Chicago Tribune – July, Sunday 18, 1926 – Page 57 Too Much for the Dog Many and lively were the goings-on of a recent afternoon on the “Annie Laurie” set at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s. Lillian Gish and Norman Kerry were enacting a scene in the huge hall of the castle of Glencoe wherein Lillian as Annie Laurie comes to warn Norman Kerry as Ferguson that he must sign the treaty of the clans or Scotland will be lost. It was a serious moment, Ferguson in love with Annie, but nettled with her, and she trying to talk above the din of the bagpipes. A large Scottish stag hound raised in America was lying at Kerry’s side, and the pipers proved much too much for him. The stag hound lifted his muzzle and told high heaven what he thought of the pipers. Lillian giggled, Kerry grinned, and the hound finally had to be led out and calmed. Scotch jokes seemed to be in the order of the day. Holbrook Blinn, a Scotchman himself, wh...