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  Silent film star receives top award (Santa Cruz Sentinel, 1984) Santa Cruz Sentinel, Volume 128, Number 53, 2 March 1984 Silent film star receives top award BEVERLY HILLS (AP) – “She was there at the birth of an art form,” Douglas Fairbanks Jr. said as the film world saluted Lillian Gish, last great star of the silent film era. Miss Gish, 90, was presented Thursday night with the Life Achievement Award of the American Film Institute, the second woman recipient in the 12 years of the honor. Bette Davis won the award in 1977. It was an evening for women achievers in the movie world, and Miss Gish presided at the table of honor in the Beverly Hilton ballroom with latter-day stars Sally Field, Jessica Lange, Jeanne Moreau, Sissy Spacek, Mary Steenburgen, Lily Tomlin and Cicely Tyson. “She is the symbol of eternal youth of America,” said Miss Moreau, who has filmed a documentary of Miss Gish’s life. “She had an air of serenity that made everybody calm,” said Robert Mitchum, who starre...

  The Most Talked About Play in The World! (Napa Valley Register, 1928) Napa Valley Register, Volume 111, Number 124, 17 April 1928 The Most Talked About Play in The World! Here’s the Channing Pollock war play that set the whole world arguing. Powerful, moving, truthful its now a screen masterpiece you just can’t ignore. Drum-beats heart-beats; Gish’s finest triumph! LILLIAN GISH with RALPH FORBES Based on the play by Channing Pollock. Adaptation by Willis Goldbeck. Continuity by Agnes Christine Johnston and ; Willis Goldbeck. Titles by John Colton. The Enemy – Napa Valley Register Advert 1928 Back to Lillian Gish Home page

  Slinging Mud at Miss Gish (San Bernardino Sun, 1938) San Bernardino Sun, Volume 44, 27 August 1938 SLINGING MUD AT MISS  GISH As a treatment for neuralgia,  Lillian   Gish,  well-known stage and screen actress of a decade ago, is being duly blanketed with warm volcanic mud at Pistany Spa, Czechoslovakia. The dainty actress, idol of a whole generation of moviegoers, is shown with directors and attendants of the famous spa. SLINGING MUD AT MISS GISH – San Bernardino Sun 1938 Back to Lillian Gish Home page

  LILLIAN GISH WINS HER SUIT (Santa Cruz Evening News, 1928) Santa Cruz Evening News, Volume 41, Number 150, 25 April 1928 LILLIAN GISH WINS HER SUIT LOS ANGELES, April 25. (AP) Several years of legal effort by Charles Duell, motion picture producer to exact damages from Lillian Gish has come to naught today. A jury in superior court here returned a verdict for the film star, defendant, yesterday, after the court had decided that all the issues of the case had been settled previously in the federal courts of New York. “Oh what a relief,” Miss Gish said when she learned that the $5,000,000 suit her one time employer had brought against her had been decided again in her favor. “I am very happy.” LILLIAN GISH SUED by Charles H. Duell When questioned about the injunction proceedings brought by Charles H. Duell, Jr.’s personal company against Miss Lillian Gish, the latter’s attorney, Messrs. Chadbourne, Stanchfield and Levy said, “This latest move is part of a design to force Miss Gish ...

  Chappell, Producer of Lillian Gish’s “Camille” (San Bernardino Sun, 1933) San Bernardino Sun, Volume 39, 1 June 1933 Chappell, Producer of Lillian Gish’s “Camille” MANHATTAN’S newest, brightest and most amiable man-about-town is Delos Chappell, a Denver blade who made his metropolitan debut last fall as producer of Lillian Gish’s “Camille.” He frequents the more sedate bright spots with. Miss Gish or George Buchanan Fife, the last and most beloved of the Park Row dandies of a glamorous newspapering unhappily dead. Another young recruit from the ranks of the haute noblesse is Tom Hamilton, wealthy and handsome Pittsburgher. A juvenile, he speaks of his first failure as “a grand Thursday night run.” Camille Cast with R.E. Jones and Lillian Gish in Chappel Garden by Laura Gilpin Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas 1932 LILLIAN GISH, by the way, provided a melancholy evening in “No. 9 Pine Street,” a study of frozen New England conscience. It was a dramatization of ...