Lillian Gish Biography

  • “Max Reinhardt” (“Stigmata”; The Film that was never made)
  • “The First Lady of The American Theatre”
  • … At 90, still making movies – F. M. Winship, 1986
  • 10050 Cielo Drive
  • 1969: Lillian Gish, discussed, the perils of early film making
  • 70 Years of Film History (1976) – by Richard Lawton
  • A celebration of this year’s Life Achievement Award winner. (Kevin Brownlow – 1985 San Francinso Cine)
  • 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
  • American Women in the Performing Acts (2002) by Liz Sonneborn
  • Amon Carter Museum of American Art; Fort Worth TX
  • Amon Carter Museum of American Art; Fort Worth TX; Camille 1932
  • An Actor’s Life for Me!
  • An Artist Who Shaped Art of Film
  • 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
  • ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST VISITS: Lillian Gish (1979)
  • As a film historian \ I am very concerned about the current agitation at Bowling Green
  • ‘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
  • Before and After Taking – Motion Picture Classic (Aug 1919)
  • Beinecke Library
  • Billy Bitzer – HIS STORY (1973)
  • Camille – 1932 (A Life on Stage and Screen By Stuart Oderman)
  • CHILD ACTORS …
  • Classics of the silent screen by Franklin Joe (1959) – “The Birth of a Nation”
  • D. W. Griffith, Pioneer Film Producer, Dies (July 23, 1948)
  • D.W. Griffith
  • 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
  • Don’t You Wish You Were a Gish ? (Film Flashes 1916)
  • Dorothy and Lillian Gish – The Gish Girls Talk About Each Other
  • Dorothy and Mae Tell Secrets – By Will Rex (1916)
  • Dorothy Gish—Her Story By Marguerite Sheridan (Picture Play Magazine 1918)
  • Down memory lane with a legend – 1982
  • Empire of Dreams (The Epic Life of Cecil B. DeMille) – By Scott Eyman (2010)
  • Erte Speaks His Mind (By Annette Buroughs – PHOTOPLAY February, 1926)
  • European Directors in America, 1922-1931 – SEASTROM
  • First great movie star Gish – Boston Globe, 2001
  • First Time on The Lecture Platform
  • 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
  • Great American Film Directors – 1987 (D.W. Griffith)
  • Griffith—and the Great War – By Paul H. Dowling (Picture-Play Magazine March 1918)
  • 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)
  • 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
  • I’ve never been in style …
  • Interview – July 7, 1913 edition of the “Massillon Evening Independent”
  • Interviewing Miss Gish …
  • IT WAS FUN WHILE IT LASTED (1973) BY ARTHUR H. LEWIS
  • Jed Harris The Curse of Genius – By Martin Gottfried (1984)
  • La Marquise – by Noel Coward, starring Lillian Gish
  • Ladies in Distress – Kalton C. Lahue (1971)
  • Late seventies candid photos by Peter Warrack
  • LEADING LADIES – 1976 (Electa Clark)
  • Life With Mother
  • Lillian Gish (Amazing Ohio – By Damaine Vonada, 1989)
  • Lillian Gish and Mary Pickford (Gladys Louise Smith)
  • Lillian Gish – A tribute to a Trouper (Anita Loos – 1984)
  • Lillian Gish By Kevin Brownlow (San Francisco Cine – 1985)
  • Lillian Gish by Nell Dorr 1930
  • Lillian Gish Enjoyed Directing Her Sister – New York Tribune, Feb. 29, 1920
  • Lillian Gish has never cared more than a small hoot about fashion
  • LILLIAN GISH IS NOW OUT OF A JOB (1921)
  • 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, 75 years of Hollywood …
  • Lillian Gish, Close-Up
  • Lillian Gish, The Enigma of the Screen – By James R. Quirk (Photoplay 1926)
  • Lillian Gish: still a trouper
  • Lillian Gish: The Actor’s Life for Me (Film)
  • Lillian would be equally at home with the Beatles and with the Archbishop of Canterbury.
  • 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)
  • London, August 1957
  • Love in the Film – By William K. Everson (1979)
  • Malcolm & Friends
  • Marks of age are lost in her glow – 1978 by Carol Olten (NY)
  • Massillon, Ohio (OH) Cca 1935 (Nell Dorr)
  • Memories of Lillian Gish – Motion Picture Classic (1922)
  • Miss Lillian Gish – Stageography
  • Miss Lillian Gish’s Awards
  • Mongrel Bites Lillian Gish When She Defends Pet Puppy (Evening Star DC, Sep. 1930)
  • Mother
  • Movie Star – A Look at the Women Who Made Hollywood – By Ethan Mordden (1983)
  • Nell Dorr
  • Not So Long Ago – By Lloyd Morris – 1949 (The Old Master – D.W. Griffith)
  • NY-Allan Warren (1972)
  • October 14, 1893, Miss Lillian Gish …
  • One Illusion Intact –By Helen Klumph
  • PBS Reopens `Masters` With A Charming Gish (July 11, 1988)
  • Playing to the Camera – 1998 (Film Actors Discuss Their Craft)
  • Posters, Lobby Cards, Promos, Press
  • Princess Grace of Monaco and Miss Lillian Gish
  • 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)
  • Remember The Silent Screen Sisters? (1975)
  • Remodeling her husband – 1920
  • Robert Altman enthusiast – Lillian Gish remains eager and excited (1978)
  • She remains undisturbed…
  • Springfield and Massillon – Ohio
  • 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)
  • Sweetheart – The Story of Mary Pickford 1973
  • Tasteless Film Sex Disturbs Lillian Gish
  • The Expressions Of Lillian Gish (Picture Show, 1920)
  • The Face That Launched A Thousand Films – 1993 (Chicago Tribune)
  • The First Lady of The Silent Screen …
  • The Girl Who Is Different – By Harry Carr (1924)
  • The Gish Film Theater Saga
  • THE GISH GENEALOGY
  • The Gish Sisters – Photo Gallery – Dorothy Gish and Lillian Gish
  • The Glamour Factory – Ronald L. Davis 1993
  • 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 Movies in the Age of Innocence – By Edward Wagenknecht (1962) I
  • The Movies, Mr. Griffith and Me – 1969
  • The Night of 100 Stars * 1982
  • 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 SILENT SCREEN – Richard Dyer MacCann
  • The Singing Empress (Stuart Oderman)
  • The Spectator (1999) – Studs Terkel
  • The Wind, beautiful in its sheer ferocity.
  • The Winnipeg Tribune – Cavalcade of The Screen (By Erskine Johnson – 1943)
  • Theresa Neumann’s Stigmata
  • Through The Looking Glass – Selma G. Lanes (2004)
  • Tribute to Gish telecast – April 17, 1984
  • Weeps at Own Play – 1919 (Los Angeles Herald)
  • What Happened to Lillian Gish? By Frederick L. Collins – June 1933
  • Why I moved from film to theatre
  • WITHIN THE GATES, Pretentious rubbish, or A very Christian Play …
  • You And Your Hand – By CHEIRO (1932 GB)- The Hand of Lillian Gish