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  D. W. Griffith, Father of Movies, is honored (San Bernardino Sun, 1975) San Bernardino Sun, 23 January 1975 D. W. Griffith, Father of Movies, is honored Anita Loos and Lillian Gish – Griffith Stamp ceremony NEW YORK (AP) – “We shot it in one day and got $5 for it,” Lillian Gish said yesterday, recalling one of the movies she made with D. W. Griffith, the film pioneer regarded as the father of the movies. “Now that’s a story in itself!” she quipped. It was in 1912 that Griffith -being honored at the Museum of Modern Art here on the 100th anniversary of his birth gathered his film crew on 14th Street and cranked out “An Unseen Enemy,” the movie that helped catapult Miss Gish to stardom. “At last we are giving some recognition to it,” Miss Gish told the crowd of illuminaires that gathered in the museum’s auditorium for the ceremony. Eagerly listening to her praise for Griffith were a room full of celebrities which included Mrs. John D. Rockefeller ...

  Splendid Excess – by Daniel Mangin (Bay Area Reporter, 1992) Bay Area Reporter, Volume 22, Number 38, 17 September 1992 Splendid Excess by Daniel Mangin We’re in for a weekend of splendid excess with two widely divergent retrospective programs centering on virtue under assault. The Pacific Film Archive presents the restored, tinted print of D.W. Griffith’s Way Down East at the Castro Sept. 18. The master’s plot is as overblown as cinema gets: an upper-class lout tricks damsel in distress Lillian Gish out of her innocence by faking marriage; gets her pregnant; and then abandons her. Next, the baby dies. (And that’s just the first part of this 21/2-hour opus.) Griffith’s fame derives from his creation of a coherent language out of the cinema’s basic elements, but his sense of what the medium could accomplish went beyond aesthetics. He saw film as a vehicle to elevate the morals of the masses, which to him meant the restoration of Victorian values (even if he wasn’t always able to l...

  A Celebration of The Performing Arts – San Bernardino Sun, 1982 San Bernardino Sun, Volume 109, Number 353, 19 December 1982 TV Week, December 19, 1982 The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of The Performing Arts George Abbott, Lillian Gish, Gene Kelly (top, l-r), Eugene Ormandy and Benny Goodman (bottom, l.c), are five distinguished American artists who have been chosen by the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington. D C , as recipients of the prestigious Kennedy Center Honors, the nation’s highest distinction for performing artists. Walter Cronkite (bottom, r), will host The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts, the fifth annual entertainment gala honoring the lifetime achievement of performing artists, airing on CBS, Saturday at 8PM An array of top stars from various realms of the performing arts, many of them colleagues of the recipients, will entertain at the invitational black-tie event, a benefit for the Kennedy Center. The ...