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Would I Do It Over Again? – Lillian Gish said … Photoplay June 1922 Way Down East – filming the “Ice Floe Scene” (Lillian Gish) Photoplay June 1922 Would I Do It Over Again? – Lillian Gish said … Would you do it over again? I asked. She gave me a stricken look, a sudden red flag of defiance in her cheeks. “No—no. Never. Oh, never. Work on a farm—scrub floors. Anything! “But go through again what I have gone through, work as I have worked, knowing,—I couldn’t.” Lillian Gish and Donald Crisp in Broken Blossoms A vibrant silence fell on the room. Lillian Gish sat looking into the fire with her head bent. Schopenhauer said that not one of us, given the privilege of a choice, would live again the life already lived. Yet here sat a girl who in her early twenties is not only the idol of a nation, but a great artist — perhaps the greatest tragic artist of the screen. A girl who had climbed from obscurity, poverty, to the top rung of the ladder. What more could she want? That is w...

The Unknown Hollywood I Know … When Lillian Gish was a real vamp … By Katherine Albert (Photoplay 1932) Photoplay January 1932 The Unknown Hollywood I Know … When Lillian Gish was a real vamp … By Katherine Albert This is the way Lillian Gish insisted upon acting in ”La Boheme.” She just would be coy in spite of all of Jack Gilbert’s ardent advances. “I’ll not have any kisses in this picture,” she said. But there were kisses. Read the story and you’ll discover why… BIG, booming factories were the studios of six years ago, entirely different from the chummy, cozy workshops of the old Griffith and Metro days. Today they have taken on still another color. Nothing changes as suddenly and decisively as Hollywood. The Movies Mr. Griffith and Me (03 1969) – Thalberg and Lillian at MGM. He wanted to arrange a scandal for her. — with Lillian Gish. When I started to work in the publicity department of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the word “talkies” was still un-coined, the sound pi...