Lillian Gish

Also known as Lillian Diana Gish, First Lady of American Cinema

American actress (1893–1993)

AI overview

Lillian Gish was an American actress who had a remarkably long career spanning from the silent film era through the late 20th century. She is considered one of the most influential and celebrated performers in cinema history, known for her work in groundbreaking silent films that helped establish motion pictures as a major art form.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 1893
Died: 1993
Works: 19

Top works

Ririan Gisshu jiden
New Dimensions
Way down East
The Marquise
The curious savage

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Group
Origin: France
Active from: 1993-03
Active to: 2005-08

Discography

Yellow Cake & Velvet Crash2002

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 312
Total plays: 5,277

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Basic local alignment search tool
· 1990 · cited 80,825x
Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,614x
Reference sequence (RefSeq) database at NCBI: current status, taxonomic expansion, and functional annotation
· 2015 · cited 6,106x
Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis
· 2008 · cited 5,610x
Calculating Structures and Free Energies of Complex Molecules: Combining Molecular Mechanics and Continuum Models
· 2000 · cited 4,593x

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Quotes

“You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father, and finally he played my husband. If he had lived I'm sure I would have played his mother. That's the way it is in Hollywood. The men get younger and the women get older.”
“I don't feel I'm old. I just feel I'm me. And I've always been a happy person. I love the human race. I love my work. I love the world—I've been around it four times, you know. And I'm a believing person. I believe in God, even though I can't see him. You can't see the air in this room, right? But take it away and you're dead. And I believe there's something for us after we die. The world isn't wasteful. It keeps going on and I think we do too.”
“If you're caught acting, nobody believes you.”
“When I was in films, we pretended to kiss but we didn't. It was considered unsanitary. Now they swallow each others' tonsils. It's disgusting.”
“I never chose money, I always chose people. I wanted to be around people who knew more than I did. I think that’s why I never fell in love with an actor. They never seemed to know any more than I did. I wanted to be with writers… My idea of a dream man was Thornton Wilder.”
“I'm so glad I didn't ruin a man's life by marrying him.”

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Encyclopedic overview

Lillian Diana Gish (October 14, 1893 – February 27, 1993) was an American actress best known for her work in movies of the silent era. Her film-acting career spanned 75 years, from 1912, in silent film shorts, to 1987. Gish was dubbed the "First Lady of the Screen" by Vanity Fair in 1927 and is credited with pioneering fundamental film performance techniques. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Gish as the 17th-greatest female movie star of classical Hollywood cinema.

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 (1921), La Bohème (1926), and The Wind (1928).

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