Film pioneer – a delicate blossom with a titanium core.
Watching over the orphaned children in Night of the Hunter:
A studio portrait of D. W. Griffith’s leading lady:
Behind the scenes on location in the Mojave in 1928 for The Wind:
Miss Gish lived to the age of 99 and at 93 appeared in her last film, The Whales of August:
My favorite Lillian Gish performance was in “Duel In The Sun”. I love that overblown, gargantuan MOVIE movie.
“What to they call ya? Pearl? Should’a been Mini-ha-ha!” Lionel Barrymore as Sen. Jackson McCanles.
I did an homage to it called “Rio Diablo”
The greatest actress of all time in my opinion. 🙂