The Gallant Gish Girls (Life Magazine 1951) By Richard L. Williams (PDF)
The Gallant Gish Girls (Life Magazine 1951) By Richard L. Williams (PDF) The Gallant Gish Girls ON TV, STAGE AND SCREEN THEY ARE ADDING LUSTER TO THEIR CAREERS By RICHARD L. WILLIAMS WITH the unlikely exceptions of Mata Hari, the lady spy, or Osa Johnson, the lady explorer, the Misses Lillian and Dorothy Gish have probably lived more dangerously than any women of their time. The Gish sisters are actresses, in the traditional, uncorrupted and perhaps obsolescent sense, and to find the period in which they did their dangerous living you have to go back beyond television, even beyond radio to the practically prehistoric heyday of the silent film. The Gishes—and one generation has to take another’s word for it—were among the first, finest and most fearless stars of that forgotten medium. For 18 years they regularly risked their lives, limbs and nervous systems before cranking cameras whose operators wore their caps backward. All in a day’s work the sisters rode careening coaches, jum...