Lillian Gish - A Century of Art

  • “A House Built on Sand” The Shadow Stage – Julian Johnson 1917
  • “A House Built Upon Sand” Reviewed By Peter Milne – 1917
  • “A House Built Upon the Sand” MOTOGRAPHY, Jan. 13, 1917
  • “An Innocent Magdalene” MOTOGRAPHY June 17, 1916
  • “Birth of a Nation” Breaks All Records – (Photoplay, July 1924)
  • “BROKEN BLOSSOMS” FULL OF BEAUTY By Edward Weitzel (May 31, 1919 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD)
  • “Daphne and the Pirate” Santa Cruz Evening News – 1916
  • “Intolerance” Reviewed by Thomas C. Kennedy (1916 – Motography)
  • “Max Reinhardt” (“Stigmata”; The Film that was never made)
  • “Romola” (Moving Picture World – 1924)
  • “Sold for Marriage” – MOTOGRAPHY – April 15, 1916
  • “The Angel of Contention” (THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD July 1914)
  • “THE GREAT LOVE” (D. W. Griffith) 1918
  • “The Rebellion of Kitty Belle.” (THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD – July, 1914)
  • “When we said Lillian is cutting “Romola,” we meant it” (Screenland – 1924)
  • ”Way Down East”- Camera (1920)
  • … At 90, still making movies – F. M. Winship, 1986
  • 70 Years of Film History (1976) – by Richard Lawton
  • A close-up of that illusive young star, Lillian Gish By Delight Evans (Photoplay 1921)
  • A Doughty LILLIAN GISH takes a fresh fling at comedy
  • A Life In Photography – by Edward Steichen *1984
  • A Life on Stage and Screen – by STUART ODERMAN
  • A Limehouse Rose – Current Opinion, July 1919
  • A Pictorial History of the Silent Screen – By Daniel Blum 1953
  • A Picture That Was No Picnic – Motion Picture Magazine, 1927
  • A Tale of Two Gishes – The Picturegoer Magazine (May, 1922)
  • A Timely Interception (1913) Biograph
  • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1985 – 86)
  • ADVENTURES WITH D. W. GRIFFITH – By Karl Brown (1973)
  • Alan Alda is busy promoting ‘Sweet Liberty’ – By Bob Thomas (1986)
  • Alan Alda’s ‘SWEET LIBERTY’  By Vincent Canby, 1986 (The NY Times)
  • American Girls use too much rouge – Movie Weekly
  • American Women in the Performing Acts (2002) by Liz Sonneborn
  • Amon Carter Museum of American Art; Fort Worth TX
  • An Indian’s Loyalty – MOTOGRAPHY – October 7, 1916
  • An Interview with LILLIAN GISH – MAGILL’S CINEMA ANNUAL 1983
  • An Intimate Story of The Gish (Movie Weekly 1922 – March 18)
  • An intimate story of the Gish – Part III, Movie Weekly, April 1st, 1922
  • An Intimate Story of the Gish PART II – (Movie Weekly) March 25 1922
  • Another Great Picture, “The Great Love”
  • ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST VISITS: Lillian Gish (1979)
  • Are the Stars Doomed? (Photoplay Magazine)
  • At 88, ‘Iron Butterfly’ spirit indomitable (1984)
  • Attagirl, Lillian. The Gang’s with you!
  • Austria and the War – New York Times (1927)
  • ‘The Childrens Pay’ – Morning Press, Cali. 1916
  • ‘Way Down East’ Looks Real Only Because It Is Real (New York Tribune, Sep. 1920)
  • “ONE ROMANTIC NIGHT” Albert Bigelow Paine – 1932
  • “ROMOLA” by Albert Bigelow Paine – 1932
  • “Sold For Marriage” Evening Ledger – Philadelphia, 1916
  • “The Enemy,” Starring Lillian Gish in Her First Modern Role – San Pedro California 1928
  • “The Greatest Thing in Life” Paramount and Artcraft Press Books – 1919
  • Backward Glances – John Gielgud 1989 (Distinguished Company 1972)
  • Before and After Taking – Motion Picture Classic (Aug 1919)
  • Billy Bitzer – HIS STORY (1973)
  • Black & White & Red – By David Denby (The New Yorker) 2012
  • Bringing ‘Whales’ to silver screen wasn’t easy (1987)
  • Broadway – Brooks Atkinson (Macmillan 1970)
  • Broadway’s Best Bets (May 1930)
  • Broken Blossoms – Across the Silversheet (Motion Picture Magazine)
  • Broken Blossoms 1919 (Classics of The Silent Screen – By Franklin Joe – 1959)
  • Broken Blossoms Wins Praise of Chicago Critic
  • Camille – 1932 (A Life on Stage and Screen By Stuart Oderman)
  • Cape Coat Continues to Appeal to Slender Figure (1927)
  • Celebrity cookbook – Lillian Gish’s recipe for gnocchi Verdi (1978)
  • Charles Laughton – An Intimate Biography (Charles Higham – 1976)
  • Chief Sunrise, John McGraw, and Me (Timothy Tocher – 2004)
  • Clansman’s Realism, Inspires Awe – Los Angeles Herald 1915
  • Classics of the silent screen by Franklin Joe (1959) – “The Birth of a Nation”
  • Code of the Screen – Photoplay – October 1926
  • Confidences Off-Screen “What a World We Live In” 1925
  • Costume, THE PERFORMING PARTNER (1990)
  • Critics Praise Lillian Gish in “The White Sister” – Moving Picture World – 1924
  • D. W. Griffith, Pioneer Film Producer, Dies (July 23, 1948)
  • D.W. Griffith (1875-1948) – by William M. Drew
  • D.W. Griffith has revived “The Two Orphans” (Photoplay November 1921)
  • D.W. Griffith Hits Rare Theme in “Broken Blossoms” (Los Angeles Herald, 1919)
  • D.W. Griffith might be the richest man – By Frederick J. Smith (Photoplay – Dec. 1926)
  • D.W. Griffith’s Intolerance Its Genesis and Its Vision (1986) by William M. Drew
  • David W. Griffith, The Man and His Methods by Donald Crisp (The Picturegoer – 1921)
  • Don’t You Wish You Were a Gish ? (Film Flashes 1916)
  • Dorothy and Mae Tell Secrets – By Will Rex (1916)
  • Dorothy Gish, reveals how she happened – Los Angeles Herald 1919
  • Dorothy Gish—Her Story By Marguerite Sheridan (Picture Play Magazine 1918)
  • Down memory lane with a legend – 1982
  • Duel in the Sun (1946)
  • Duel in the Sun – Motion Picture Herald – January 2nd 1947
  • Editorial Chats with Exhibitors on David W. Griffith’s “True Heart Susie”
  • Empire of Dreams (The Epic Life of Cecil B. DeMille) – By Scott Eyman (2010)
  • ENOCH ARDEN (1915) — Louis Reeves Harrison – The Moving Picture World
  • Erte Speaks His Mind (By Annette Buroughs – PHOTOPLAY February, 1926)
  • European Directors in America, 1922-1931 – SEASTROM
  • European Postcards, Miss Lillian Gish
  • Film Facts; “The Most Beautiful Blond” – 1914
  • First great movie star Gish – Boston Globe, 2001
  • First New York Showing of “Broken Blossoms” Is a Great Artistic Triumph – By Edward Weitzel, 1919
  • For me, Lillian Gish put BGSU on the map!
  • Gish sisters are an important part of film history
  • Gish Sisters Attend Cousin’s Wedding
  • Gish Sisters Christen New Hup – 1916 (L.A. Herald)
  • Golden With Age – Chicago Tribune, 1987
  • Grand Old Lillian Gish Makes a Big Splash in the Whales of August
  • Grandma Moses – 1989 (Tom Biracree)
  • Great American Film Directors – 1987 (D.W. Griffith)
  • Griffith to Stage The Greatest Thing in Life’ Next Monday Evening (LAH – 1918)
  • Griffith’s Picture (Orphans) Angers the French – Photoplay 1923
  • Griffith: The Minor Masterworks By Herb Sterne (Rob Wagner’s Script – 1946)
  • Griffith—and the Great War – By Paul H. Dowling (Picture-Play Magazine March 1918)
  • Griffith’s Musical Secrets – Picture Play 1922
  • HEARTS OF THE WORLD (Griffith/Paramount-Artcraft, 1918) – Selected Film Criticism
  • Henry B. Walthall, his impressions of Lillian Gish (By Myrtle Gebhart – Picture Play 1926)
  • His Double Life – By Norbert Lusk (Picture Play 1934)/ Molly Levin (Picture Play 1935)
  • Hobson’s Choice – 1983
  • Hollywood – By BOB THOMAS – The Associated Press (1945)
  • Hollywood costume – Glamour! Glitter! Romance!
  • HOLLYWOOD in The Twenties (1968) by David Robinson
  • HOLLYWOOD ROYALTY – HORS D’OEUVRES (1992) – by Gregory Speck
  • Hollywood Star Profiles (The Reporter) – Lillian Gish (1984)
  • Hollywood: The Golden Era by Jack Spears (1971)
  • HOME, SWEET HOME (Reliance-Majestic/Mutual, 1914) – Selected Film Criticism
  • How Griffith Picks His Leading Women – By Harry C. Carr (Photoplay 1918)
  • How to be beautiful – By Hester Hoffmann (Pittsburgh Post)
  • How to be beautiful! – “Train Your Lips To Express Beauty Advises Lillian Gish”
  • I am like a flea, forever hopping here, there and everywhere …
  • I Go A – calling on the Gish Girls – By Richard Willis (1914)
  • In Plaid and Tartan By Norbert Lusk (Picture Play Magazine, 1927)
  • In Praise and Celebration of SISTERS – A HELEN EXLEY GIFTBOOK (1998)
  • In Search of Happier Times: Horton Foote’s The Trip to Bountiful (1986) – Glenn D. Novak
  • Interview – July 7, 1913 edition of the “Massillon Evening Independent”
  • Interviewing Miss Gish …
  • INTOLERANCE (Griffith Wark, 1916) Selected Film Criticism
  • Intolerance – 1916 – By Franklin Joe (1959)
  • Intolerance Is the Greatest Movie Ever Made
  • IT WAS FUN WHILE IT LASTED (1973) BY ARTHUR H. LEWIS
  • Jed Harris The Curse of Genius – By Martin Gottfried (1984)
  • JOHN GIELGUD’S HAMLET – 1936 (James Mason Brown, 1938)
  • John Huston: Maker of Magic – By Stuart Kaminsky – 1978 (The Unforgiven)
  • Joyce (Coad) Growing Toward Stardom (MOVING PICTURE WORLD HOLLYWOOD OFFICE June 25, 1927)
  • Kennedy Center Honors show taped for airing Christmas night – 1982
  • KING VIDOR – 1988
  • L.A. Film Favorites in “The Clansman” February 1915 (LAH)
  • La Boheme – Romantic Drama – By Agnes Smith (MGM) – 1926
  • La Marquise – by Noel Coward, starring Lillian Gish
  • Ladies in Distress – Kalton C. Lahue (1971)
  • Lars Hanson – Photoplay Magazine July, 1927
  • Le Spectre de La Rose … (Charles Affron – 2001)
  • LEADING LADIES – 1976 (Electa Clark)
  • Letters of Carl Van Vechten – 1987
  • Life With Mother
  • Lilian Gish recovering in Germany in the 30’s
  • Lillian FIGHTS Alone – By Leonard Hall – 1929
  • Lillian Gish (Amazing Ohio – By Damaine Vonada, 1989)
  • Lillian Gish (Classics of The Silent Screen – By Franklin Joe – 1959)
  • LILLIAN GISH – Poem By Doris Kenyon 1922
  • Lillian Gish – A tribute to a Trouper (Anita Loos – 1984)
  • Lillian Gish By Kevin Brownlow (San Francisco Cine – 1985)
  • Lillian Gish comes to Saddleback College (Lariat – 1978)
  • Lillian Gish Enjoyed Directing Her Sister – New York Tribune, Feb. 29, 1920
  • Lillian Gish in “The White Sister” – The Film Daily – September 9, 1923
  • Lillian Gish in Annie Laurie – Lola Todd (1927)
  • LILLIAN GISH IS NOW OUT OF A JOB (1921)
  • Lillian Gish Marks Time – By Aileen St. John Brennon (Picture Play Magazine – September 1928)
  • Lillian Gish Stars in Play “Grass Harp” On TV (1960)
  • LILLIAN GISH SUED by Charles H. Duell
  • Lillian Gish Tells How Ice Scenes Were Filmed (Washington Herald – 1921)
  • Lillian Gish tops playing roles in silent movies – By Mike Hughes (1988)
  • Lillian Gish’s Summer Frocks – Photoplay June 1922
  • Lillian Gish, 75 years of Hollywood …
  • Lillian Gish, at 83, TRANSCENDS STYLE
  • Lillian Gish, My Religion, Helen Keller, and Jim Patterson – 1974
  • Lillian Gish, The Enigma of the Screen – By James R. Quirk (Photoplay 1926)
  • Lillian Gish: still a trouper
  • Lillian Gish: The Silent Past
  • Lillian Gish’s Genius Will Outlast Ava DuVernay and the Canon Wreckers – By Armond White, June 2019
  • LILLIAN GISH at Auditorium in SEX PLAY – TUESDAY
  • Lillian Gish Finds Ideal Role in Her Latest Film, ‘La Boheme,’ – 1926
  • Lillian Gish Has Tragic Role of Mimi in Cabrillo Picture, “La Boheme”
  • Lillian Gish is Star in Fine Arts “Diane of the Follies” at Mission (1916)
  • Lillian Gish Rates Title of ‘Most Durable Star’ – 1965
  • Lillian Gish still favorite dish – By Marilyn August, October – 1983
  • LION of HOLLYWOOD (2005)
  • LizBits – Nine Pine Street – By Neilson Caplain (October, 2002)
  • Looking Back 25 Years (Picture Show Annual – 1936)
  • LOOS PREVIEW 1981
  • Love in the Film – By William K. Everson (1979)
  • Madera Tribune, 1926 “Romola”
  • Marks of age are lost in her glow – 1978 by Carol Olten (NY)
  • Meet “Battling” Burrows – 1919
  • Memories of Lillian Gish – Motion Picture Classic (1922)
  • Miss Mabel (1950)
  • Mongrel Bites Lillian Gish When She Defends Pet Puppy (Evening Star DC, Sep. 1930)
  • Motion Picture Classic 1926 – Letters to “King Dodo”
  • Movie Star – A Look at the Women Who Made Hollywood – By Ethan Mordden (1983)
  • Movies in America – By William Kuhns – 1972 (The Birth of a Nation)
  • My Pulchrist Experiment in Verisimilitude (Jesse Waugh – 2013)
  • Nearly 200 top stars shine at benefit show – 1982
  • New STYLES in SCREEN GIRLS – By Harry Carr (1926)
  • Newspaper Opinions on New Pictures – “Annie Laurie” (Motion Picture News – June, 1927)
  • Not So Long Ago – By Lloyd Morris – 1949 (The Old Master – D.W. Griffith)
  • One Illusion Intact –By Helen Klumph
  • ONE ROMANTIC NIGHT – Kinema Guide – January 12th to 18th, 1931 (London)
  • Only the Best – A Celebration of Gift Giving in America
  • Original Review: ‘The Trip to Bountiful’ (Brooks Atkinson) 1953
  • ORPHANS OF THE STORM—D. W. Griffith – Photoplay Magazine – March 1922
  • Our “Young Visitors” By Faith Service 1920
  • Our Animated Monthly of Movie News and Views – By Sally Roberts (Motion Picture Magazine 1919)
  • PBS Reopens `Masters` With A Charming Gish (July 11, 1988)
  • Picture-Play Magazine (June 1926) “La Boheme” – Sally Benson
  • Picturing “La Boheme” – By John Gilbert (Screenland July 1926)
  • Playing to the Camera – 1998 (Film Actors Discuss Their Craft)
  • PRESS STORIES “A Romance of Happy Valley”
  • Re-Meet Lillian Gish (A 60 seconds close-up) 1942 – by Jerry Mason
  • Reel women  pioneers of the cinema, 1896 to the present – Ally Acker (1991)
  • Religion in the Cinema – By Ivan Butler (1969)
  • Remember The Silent Screen Sisters? (1975)
  • REMODELING HER HUSBAND Paramount-Artcraft, 1920) Selected Film Criticism
  • Robert Altman enthusiast – Lillian Gish remains eager and excited (1978)
  • San Pedro News Pilot 1924 – “The White Sister” – Prologue
  • SCREEN ACTING by Mae Marsh 1921
  • SCREENING OUT THE PAST By LARY MAY (1980)
  • Selected Film Criticism – BROKEN BLOSSOMS (Anthony Slide)
  • SONS COME AND GO, MOTHERS HANG IN FOREVER – By William Saroyan – 1976
  • St. Louis and Sodas at the Busy Bee – The Globe Democrat, 1968
  • Star Acting – Gish, Garbo, Davis – By Charles Affron (1977)
  • STAR GLITTERS – 1980
  • STAR MAKER – The Story of D. W. Griffith (1959) by HOMER CROY
  • STARDOM – THE HOLLYWOOD PHENOMENON – By Alexander Walker – 1970 (All For Art – Lillian Gish)
  • State Rights Sale for “Judith of Bethulia (Motion Picture News – 1917)
  • Sweetheart – The Story of Mary Pickford 1973
  • Tasteless Film Sex Disturbs Lillian Gish
  • Tenth Anniversary (Exhibitors Herald – June 27, 1925)
  • The Battle of Elderbush Gulch – MOTOGRAPHY July 31, 1915
  • The Birth of an Era
  • The Children Pay – 1916
  • The Children Pay – Review by Julian Johnson – 1917 (Photoplay)
  • The choice for viewing tonight is ‘Hobson’s Choice’ – Bill Hayden (1983)
  • The Clansman is coming to Local Theater – 1916
  • THE DANCE: MET OPERA GALA
  • The Day Lincoln Was Shot – 1956
  • The Defenders (TV Series) 1962
  • The Enemy (MOVING PICTURE WORLD December 31, 1927)
  • The Enemy (Reviewed by Laurence Reid – Motion Picture News 1927)
  • The Expressions Of Lillian Gish (Picture Show, 1920)
  • The Face That Launched A Thousand Films – 1993 (Chicago Tribune)
  • The Girl Who Is Different – By Harry Carr (1924)
  • The Glamour Factory – Ronald L. Davis 1993
  • THE GREAT LOVE (Paramount-Artcraft, 1918) Selected Film Criticism
  • THE GREATEST QUESTION (Griffith/First National, 1919) Selected Film Criticism
  • The House Built Upon Sand – Filmed in The Gish Home (J.C. Jessen – 1916)
  • THE HUNCHBACK – Reel Life – April 11, 1914
  • The Legend of Leonora – 1948
  • The Lily and The Rose – Reviewed by Neil G. Caward (Motography 1915)
  • The Lily Maid From Ohio – F. J. Smith – Motion Picture (1921)
  • The Lyrical Lillian – 1942
  • The MGM Girls Behind The Velvet Courtain – 1983
  • The Mona Lisa of The Movies – By Delight Evans (Screenland – June 1924)
  • THE MOTHERING HEART (American Biograph, 1913)
  • The Movies in the Age of Innocence – By Edward Wagenknecht (1962) I
  • The Movies in The Age of Innocence – By Edward Wagenknecht (1962) II
  • THE MUSKETEERS OF PIG ALLEY (American Biograph, 1912)
  • The New York Herald, Sunday December 19, 1920 (Way Down East)
  • The Parade’s Gone By … Kevin Brownlow – 1968
  • The Real Lillian Gish Vs. The Imaginary – By Julian Johnson (Photoplay 1918)
  • The Real Sirens of the Screen – By Agnes Smith (Photoplay September, 1926)
  • The Scarlet Letter – By Nathaniel Hawthorne (Screenland – May 1926)
  • The Screen’s Foremost Artist – Motion Picture News (1927)
  • The Serious Side of the Women of the Screen – Filmplay July 1922
  • THE SILENT SCREEN – Richard Dyer MacCann
  • The Singing Empress (Stuart Oderman)
  • The Spectator (1999) – Studs Terkel
  • THE SWAN – By Edwin and Eliza Shallert (Picture Play 1930)
  • The Unknown Hollywood I Know … When Lillian Gish was a real vamp … By Katherine Albert (Photoplay 1932)
  • The White Sister in A Bright Red Coat – 1923
  • The Winnipeg Tribune – Cavalcade of The Screen (By Erskine Johnson – 1943)
  • THE WOMAN WHO WAITS (Paramount and Artcraft Press Book May,1919)
  • They Say He’s a Genius – By Sheilah Abraham (1943)
  • They Say in New York … By Karen Hollis (Picture Play Magazine – 1933)
  • Those Gish Girls, EACH IS MORE ALLURING Than the Other (1919)
  • Through The Looking Glass – Selma G. Lanes (2004)
  • Tribute to Gish telecast – April 17, 1984
  • Uncle Vanya (Lillian Gish – The Movies, Mr. Griffith and Me)
  • Uncle Vanya – Albert Bigelow Paine 1932
  • WAY DOWN EAST (Griffith/United Artists, 1920) Selected Film Criticism
  • Way Down East – Richard Brody (The New Yorker)
  • We Interview the Two Orphans – Gladys Hall /Adele Whitely Fletcher
  • We need to remember the long-suppressed history of women including their pioneering contributions to cinema.
  • We’re Surprised, Lillian! – MOTOGRAPHY August 19, 1916.
  • Weeps at Own Play – 1919 (Los Angeles Herald)
  • What Happened to Lillian Gish? By Frederick L. Collins – June 1933
  • What I Demand of Movie Stars – By David W. Griffith (Motion Picture Classic 1916)
  • What Love Means to Me – By Lillian Gish (Pictures and Picturegoer – October 1924)
  • What Makes Them Cry – By Frederick James Smith (PHOTOPLAY 1923)
  • When it comes to versatility, Price is right By BOB THOMAS – 1988
  • When Lillian Gish first met Mary Pickford …
  • Why Are We Glad to Get Back Home – Motion Picture Magazine 1924
  • Will the Churches Defeat Censorship? By Frances Rule (Picture Play Magazine 1926)
  • WITHIN THE GATES, Pretentious rubbish, or A very Christian Play …
  • Would I Do It Over Again? – Lillian Gish said … Photoplay June 1922
  • You And Your Hand – By CHEIRO (1932 GB)- The Hand of Lillian Gish