Lillian Gish Photo Gallery IV

 

Lillian Gish Photo Gallery IV

Gish got her start on stage, in a 1902 road melodrama in the Midwest, but it was in 1912 that she made her first short film for David Wark (D.W.) Griffith, to whom she was introduced by girlhood friend Gladys Smith, soon to become Mary Pickford. Work in silent and later talking pictures consumed Gish’s energies for nearly 20 years of her early career, and when she returned to film in 1943 from a long stage interlude, she never again abandoned the screen. Gish made her acting debut, as Baby Lillian, with Huston in ‘The Convict’s Stripes’ in a barn-turned-theater in Rising Sun, Ohio. She was 5 at the time and the daughter of a struggling actress. You can safely say that about stage players, for their performances survive only in the memory. But Lillian Gish’s performances exist in films that have been subjected to scrutiny again and again. The verdict is always the same: Lillian Gish is astonishing.

  • Brooke Astor (right) and actress Lillian Gish, Vogue magazine,1982.
  • Ralph Forbes and Lillian Gish – wedding scene – ”The Enemy” still frame
  • 1929 Press Photo Lillian Gish in New York on the S.S. Ile De France
  • WILLIAM DIETERLE LIONEL BARRYMORE and LILLIAN GISH on set candid during filming of DUEL IN THE SUN 1946
  • RUSSELL SIMPSON and LILLIAN GISH in ANNIE LAURIE 1927
  • Lillian Gish in a scene from ”Annie Laurie” — Key Photo
  • Lillian Gish and Richard Barthelmess in a scene from ”Broken Blossoms” Lucy and Cheng Huan
  • Lillian and Dorothy Gish 1956 – Chalk Garden Tour
  • Dorothy Gish (seated, center) and the crew of Herbert Wilcox’s London (1926) take a break during location shooting in England
  • LILLIAN GISH, RALPH FORBES, DIRECTOR FRED NIBLO 1927 MGM Studio Set Photo (The Enemy)
  • SUSANNA FOSTER and LILLIAN GISH – Studio – 1943 TOP MAN
  • Dorothy Gish – Autographed portrait (By her sister Lillian)
  • 1918 Griffith Film ‘The Great Love’ Lillian Gish George Fawcett
  • Lillian Gish as Letty Mason in ”The Wind” MGM
  • Lillian Gish and Norman Kerry – still frame (key) from Annie Laurie
  • Norman Kerry, Lillian Gish and Creighton Hale in a scene from Annie Laurie
  • Lillian Gish promotional – portrait – advert for ‘Top Man’ 1943
  • Lillian Gish in ‘The White Sister’ film magazine poster 1923
  • 1969 Press Photo Stage actress Lillian Gish at Tacoma Town Hall Lecture Series
  • Lillian Gish and Creighton Hale in a scene from ”Annie Laurie”
  • 1926 – LILLIAN GISH – SUPER Cigarettes Film Stars card Uruguay
  • 1928 MGM Silent Movie ”The Wind” On Set Victor Seastrom – Lillian Gish (behind the scenes)
  • Lillian and Dorothy are playing on Broadway simultaneously for the first time, Lillian in “The Joyous Season” and Dorothy in “By Your Leave.” Last night Dorothy visited Lillian at the Belasco Theatre to discuss their starring vehicles.
  • Lillian Gish and Ralph Forbes – scene from ” The Enemy” – key
  • Sonny Tufts, Lillian Gish, Lloyd Bridges in ”Miss Susie Slagle’s” – promotional
  • Lillian Gish and Mary Alden in ”The Lily and the Rose” 1915 – autographed photo
  • Lillian Gish in a scene from ‘The Old Maid’ at the King’s in Glasgow, March 1936
  • NYFCC archives, here’s Isabelle Adjani and Lillian Gish at the awards dinner at Sardi’s in 1976
  • LILLIAN GISH and RUSSELL SIMPSON in ANNIE LAURIE 1927 director JOHN S. ROBERTSON photo by Milton Brown Metro Goldwyn Mayer
  • Lillian Gish cca 1970 autographed (William Dieterle)
  • Lillian Gish cca 1970 — signing her book The Movies, Mr. Griffith and Me – autographed
  • circa 1926: Lillian Gish (1893 – 1993), Fred Niblo (1874 – 1948) the director and Ralph Forbes (1902 – 1951) the British leading man, during the filming of ‘The Enemy’, for MGM. (Photo by Hulton Archive)
  • LILLIAN GISH in THE WHITE SISTER 1923 director HENRY KING novel Francis Marion Crawford Portrait by JAMES ABBE Inspiration Pictures Metro Pictures Corporation
  • LILLIAN GISH in THE WHITE SISTER 1923 director HENRY KING novel Francis Marion Crawford Portrait by JAMES ABBE Inspiration Pictures Metro Pictures Corporation (detail)

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