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Lillian Diana Gish was born on October 14, 1893, in Springfield, Ohio, the first child of actress Mary Robinson McConnell, and James Leigh Gish. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Lillian had a younger sister, Dorothy , who also became a popular movie star.
The scenes of child abuse nauseated backers when Griffith gave them a preview of the film; according to Lillian Gish in interviews, a Variety reporter invited to sit in on a second take left the room to vomit. [17] Today, Broken Blossoms is widely regarded as one of Griffith's finest works.
The film is based on the short story "The Chink and the Child" by Thomas Burke from his collection Limehouse Nights (1916), and was produced at Twickenham Studios in London. The story had previously been adapted by D. W. Griffith for his film Broken Blossoms (1919) starring Lillian Gish.
Lionel Barrymore as The Father; Kate Bruce as The Mother; Lillian Gish as The Daughter; Robert Harron as The Son; Alfred Paget as The Vigilante Leader; Charles Hill Mailes as A Thieving Merchant
Lillian Gish is considered America’s greatest film actress by most people who know anything about movie history. Gish was a key figure, acting in numerous classics from the silent era and into ...
The film opens by showing a young woman (Lillian Gish) in a garden.She is tender hearted, demonstrated by her appreciation of the flowers and the rescuing of a puppy. A melancholic young man (Walter Miller) woos her and she is foolishly swayed more by his pain of rejection than her love for him and eventually agrees to marry.
Way Down East is a 1920 American silent melodrama film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Lillian Gish.It is one of four film adaptations of the 19th century play of the same name by Lottie Blair Parker.
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