"Lillian Gish"

The Birth of a Nation directed by DW Griffith Plot Outline - The Civil War divides friends and destroys families, but that's nothing compared to the anarchy in the black-ruled South after the war. Cast: Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B Walthall, Miriam Cooper, Mary Alden, Ralph Lewis, George Siegmann, Walter Long, Robert Harron, Wallace Reid, Joseph Henabery, Elmer Clifton, Josephine Crowell, Spottiswoode Aitken, George Beranger Cast: (see less) Plot Keywords: Jump From Height, Assassination Of President, 1910s, War, USA, Politically Incorrect, 1860s, White Supremacy, Squirrel, Discrimination, Killing, 1870s, Cabin, Spring, Oppression (see more) Plot Keywords: Jump From Height, Assassination Of President, 1910s, War, USA, Politically Incorrect, 1860s, White Supremacy, Squirrel, Discrimination, Killing, 1870s, Cabin, Spring, Oppression, Whipping, Dancing, American Civil War, Racism, Blockbuster, Civil War, Election, Fall From Height, Controversial, Dead Girl, Fight, Forest, Sexism, Ku Klux Klan, Based On Adaptation, Based On Multiple Works, Ulysses Simpson Grant, 1800s, Racist, Racial Stereotype, Assassination, Battle, Carpetbagger, Cross, Emancipation, Lincoln Assassination, Reconstruction, Robert E Lee, Birth Of A Nation, Propaganda, Actor Playing Multiple Roles, Silent Film, Southern Belle, Based On Novel, Based On Play (see less)

The Night of the Hunter directed by Charles Laughton Plot Outline - A religious fanatic marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real daddy hid $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, James Gleason, Evelyn Varden, Peter Graves, Don Beddoe, Billy Chapin, Sally Jane Bruce, Gloria Castillo, George Wallace Cast: (see less) Plot Keywords: Maniac, Gothic, Ford Model T, Jailhouse, Widow, Soda Fountain, Loot, Very Little Dialogue, Mind Game, Hymn, Fanatic, Oedipus Complex, Religious Fanatic, Psychological Thriller, Religious Zealot (see more) Plot Keywords: Maniac, Gothic, Ford Model T, Jailhouse, Widow, Soda Fountain, Loot, Very Little Dialogue, Mind Game, Hymn, Fanatic, Oedipus Complex, Religious Fanatic, Psychological Thriller, Religious Zealot, Young Boy, Good Versus Evil, Dysfunctional Family, Ex Convict, Hypocrisy, Bank Robbery, Bible, Child In Peril, Doll, Tattoo, Childhood, Murder, Religion, Serial Killer, Christmas, Hidden Money, Mob Scene, Psychopath, River, Secret, Switchblade, Execution, False Preacher, Farm, Foster Parent, Great Depression, Prison, Cult Favorite, 1930s, Arrest, Barn, Brother Sister Relationship, Cellar, Corpse, Courtroom, Expressionist, Face Slap, Fishing, Horse Thief, Houseboat, Ice Cream Parlor, Loss Of Father, Loss Of Husband, Loss Of Mother, Picnic, Police, Prison Guard, Promise, Runaway, Shotgun, Small Town, Spanking, Stolen Money, Street Preacher, Strip Club, Underwater, Wedding Night, Widower, Uxoricide, Talking In Sleep, Psychotronic, Rowboat, Evil Preacher, West Virginia, Bathtub, Drunkeness, Based On Novel (see less)

Lillian Gish: Her Legend, Her Life by Charles Affron See all pages with references to "Lillian Gish". Excerpt - on Page 1: " ... Lillian Gish was proud of her roots, deeply planted in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century America. The Gish name was initially the source of ... " Key Phrases: Lillian Gish, New York, Miss Gish, Mary Pickford, Los Angeles, Broken Blossoms, Dorothy Gish, most beautiful blonde, untitled typescript, white sister, miracle woman, first talkie (see more) Key Phrases: Lillian Gish, New York, Miss Gish, Mary Pickford, Los Angeles, Broken Blossoms, Dorothy Gish, George Jean Nathan, Charles Duell, United States, Blanche Sweet, Mary Gish, Lucy Kroll, Richard Barthelmess, The Scarlet Letter, Silver Glory, United Artists, Henry King, Mae Marsh, Billy Bitzer, Uncle Vanya, Bobby Harron, Annie Laurie, Inspiration Pictures, The Mothering Heart, most beautiful blonde, untitled typescript, white sister, miracle woman, first talkie (see less)

Silent Players: A Biographical and Autobiographical Study of 100 Silent Film Actors and Actresses by Anthony Slide See all pages with references to "Lillian Gish". Excerpt - on Page 7: " ... Lucile V. Langhanke. The magazine even provides would-be fans with her address at 1120 East 47th Street, Chicago. In 1920, Lillian Gish directed a screen test of Astor for D.W. ... " Key Phrases: New York, Los Angeles, Lillian Gish, Mary Pickford, Blanche Sweet, Mary Brian, light comedienne, second female lead, last silent film, last screen appearance, silent players, little colonel (see more) Key Phrases: New York, Los Angeles, Lillian Gish, Mary Pickford, Blanche Sweet, Mary Brian, Douglas Fairbanks, Mabel Normand, American Biograph, Mae Marsh, Harold Lloyd, Wallace Reid, Bebe Daniels, Carol Dempster, Corinne Griffith, Mary Astor, Alice Terry, Theda Bara, Bessie Love, Charles Ray, Fay Wray, Lowell Sherman, Seena Owen, The Silent Picture, Lon Chaney, light comedienne, second female lead, last silent film, last screen appearance, silent players, little colonel, screen career, first talkie, leading lady, silent star (see less)