Lillian Gish (1893-1993) was responsible for turning film acting into an art form. She appeared in such monumental works as Birth of a Nation, directed by the man who launched her career, D.W. Griffith. Gish became known as the "First Lady of the...

Both frail and tough, innocent and powerful, charming and serious, actress Lillian Gish has defied both categorization and convention. Best known for her work with director D. W. Griffith, in her younger years Gish portrayed pale, waiflike heroines who...

Lillian Diana Gish (October 14, 1893 – February 27, 1993), was an Oscar-nominated American actress, performing from the early days of the silent movie era until the late 1980s. The American Film Institute (AFI) named Gish 17th among the greatest...

Actresses Dorothy and Lillian Gish were born in Ohio to parents Mary Robinson McConnell and James Leigh Gish. Lillian was born on Oct. 14, 1893 while Dorothy was born five years later on Mar. 11, 1898. Their mother was also an actress, taking the...

LILLIAN GISH HER LEGEND, HER LIFE BY CHARLES AFFRON (SCRIBNER; 416 PP.; $37.50) She was never as popular with audiences as her friend Mary Pickford, but Lillian Gish was the darling of New York itltellectuals who otherwise disdained the crude sentimentalism of...

During the early years of motion pictures, theaters across the country shunned studio-produced promotional displays and instead hired their own artists to paint movie posters that would better entice ticket buyers.Because they had to work ahead of the film's schedule, most of the artists never...

Part pooh-bah, part pontiff, for some 50 years Leo Lerman ruled Manhattan’s cultural roost from a host of journalistic redoubts, including Mademoiselle, Vogue and Vanity Fair, ending his career as an über-editorial advisor at Condé Nast Publications. He died at 80 on Aug. 22, 1994....