Lilian gish biography
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Lillian Gish
American actress (1893–1993)
Lillian Diana Gish[1] (October 14, 1893 – February 27, 1993) was an American actress. Her film-acting career spanned 75 years, from 1912, in silent filmshorts, to 1987.
Lilian gish biography
Gish was dubbed the "First Lady of the Screen" by Vanity Fair in 1927[2] and is credited with pioneering fundamental film performance techniques.[3] In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Gish as the 17th-greatest female movie star of Classic Hollywood cinema.[4]
Having acted on stage with her sister as a child, Gish was a prominent film star from 1912 into the 1920s, being particularly associated with the films of director D.
W. Griffith. This included her leading role in the highest-grossing film of the silent era, Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1915). Her other major films and performances from the silent era included Intolerance (1916), Broken Blossoms (1919), Way Down East (1920), Orphans of the Storm (19