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  Lillian Gish – The Chicago Tribune Archive (PDF Download) Miss Gish is a rarely fascinating personality in the theater, moving consciously about; falling into unconsciously graceful poses; speaking in a gentle voice with modest expression; suggesting a little girl playing most intelligently at acting, but still a little girl. Chicago Tribune (Chicago, Illinois) 11 Aug 1918, Sun Page 46 – 2 Chicago Tribune (Chicago, Illinois) 11 Apr 1926, Sun Page 145 – Chicago Tribune (Chicago, Illinois) 29 Apr 1928, Sun Page 24 – N Chicago Tribune (Chicago, Illinois) 15 Jun 1930, Sun Page 73 – N Chicago Tribune (Chicago, Illinois) 28 Dec 1928, Fri Page 38 Chicago Tribune (Chicago, Illinois) 16 Jun 1943, Wed Page 11 Chicago Tribune (Chicago, Illinois)25 Apr 1928, WedPage 3 – News Chicago Tribune (Chicago, Illinois) 22 Nov 1943, Mon Page 10 – N Chicago Tribune (Chicago, Illinois) 16 Mar 1941, Sun Page 31 From left to right: Nikita Balieff, founder of the Bat theater; Sam Bernard, Leon Errol, Maril...

  Broadway – Brooks Atkinson (Macmillan 1970) PDF download Miss Gish has never failed the author or the audience. She believes that it is the duty of the actor to help make the play intelligible and interesting. She has no patience with the introspective school of acting. To her, what motivates the actor is a matter of no importance; what moves an audience is. Broadway_nodrm DOWNLOAD Broadway By Brooks Atkinson 1970 Back to Lillian Gish Home page

  A Short History of the Movies (PDF download) – Gerald Mast 1971 A short history of the movies Gerald Mast, deceased Formerly of the University of Chicago © 1971, 1976, and 1981 by the Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc.; FIFTH EDITION REVISED BY Bruce F. Kawin University of Colorado at Boulder 1992 Macmillan Publishing Company New York Maxwell Macmillan Canada Toronto The way to improve film acting was not just to make the actors underplay but to let cinematic technique help the actors act. A camera can move in so close to an actor’s face that the blinking of an eye or the flicker of a smile can become a significant and sufficient gesture. Or the field of view can cut from the actor to the subject of the actor’s thoughts or attention, thereby revealing the emotion without requiring a grotesque, overstated thump on the chest. Film acting before Griffith—and before his greatest star, Lillian Gish—not only in the Film d’Art but in Melies and Porter and Hepworth as well, had been so bad prec...

  Lillian Gish Her Legend Her Life – By Charles Affron (PDF download) CHARLES AFFRON admires Lillian Gish’s life, as who does not? It is in most respects admirable, even exemplary, particularly in her refusal to surrender to old age. She started acting in 1902 when she was 9 years old and continued, seemingly immune to all the vagaries of her profession — bad roles, bad reviews, public controversies and private disappointments — until she was, astonishingly, 94. She outlived most of her show business colleagues, outworked them all with the possible exception of John Gielgud and, always the uncomplaining trouper, rarely missed a day because of illness, not a minute because of egomania. Lillian Gish – Her Legend, Her Life By Charles Affron – 2001 Lillian Gish her legend, her life DOWNLOAD Lillian Gish as Anna Moore – Way Down East Back to Lillian Gish Home page

  A Pictorial History of the Silent Screen – By Daniel Blum (1953) PDF download Whatever role the silent screen has played in our social history—and I believe it was an important one—no one can underestimate the enormous pleasure the films of this era gave to audiences everywhere. It has been my thought in compiling this book to recall the varied and fascinating personalities and photoplays of the years from the earliest films to the advent of the sound screen, when stars were really stars, when the fashions and activities of the Hollywood greats echoed around the world and 100,000 people could gather in London and even in Moscow to greet Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks on their triumphal tour of Europe. Here was an art peculiarly American and yet universal. Its essence was entertainment; its success, financial and otherwise, was stupendous. Perhaps today, in a more troubled age, we can look back on these people and their films not only with nostalgia but also with a sincere de...