Download or read book The Movies Mr Griffith and Me written by Lillian Gish and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lillian Gish written by Charles Affron and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-03-12 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As someone who worked with and knew Lillian Gish for years, I found Charles Affron’s portrait revealing and moving. He rekindles the life of this intuitive and generous artist beautifully."—Eva Marie Saint
Download or read book Lillian Gish written by Stuart Oderman and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2000 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On March 12, 1993, Lillian Gish's memorial service was attended by a host of celebrities whose lives had been touched by her long and remarkable career. From her first film, An Unseen Enemy (1912), to her last, The Whales of August (1987), Lillian Gish personified film. With a theatrical career spanning nearly 100 years, Gish saw motion pictures evolve from flickers to blockbusters. Almost always playing someone who needed to be rescued or protected, her trademark delicacy and vulnerability were, however, only part of her persona. She was a strong and complex woman whose painful childhood taught her frugality, love for her mother and her sister, Dorothy, and a distrust of men. In this, her most complete biography, the author, who was her friend, chronicles the hardships, heartaches, and fierce determination that shaped her from her days as a fatherless child to those as head of her family, and on to a time when she became nearly a legend. Featuring rare photographs and intimate recollections of Lillian, Dorothy, and other important figures, the biography is helpful in understanding film history as well as one of its most beautiful and important figures.
Download or read book Life and Lillian Gish written by Albert Bigelow Paine and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-11 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work sheds light on the life and works of Lillian Gish, an American actress, director, and screenwriter known as the "First Lady of American Cinema." Her film career spanned 75 years, from silent film shorts to 1987. Her notable films from the silent era include The Birth of a Nation (1915), Intolerance (1916), and Way Down East (1920). Gish acted on stage with her sister as a child and was particularly associated with the films of D.W. Griffith. Moreover, she was an advocate for the preservation of silent film and was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1972.
Download or read book Lillian Gish written by Stuart Oderman and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a theatrical career spanning nearly 100 years, Gish saw motion pictures evolve from flickers to blockbusters. Usually playing someone needing to be rescued or protected, her trademark delicacy and vulnerability belied a strong and complex woman whose fatherless childhood taught her frugality, love for her mother and her sister, Dorothy, and a distrust of men. The author, who was her friend, chronicles the hardships, heartaches, and fierce determination that shaped her all her days. With rare photographs and intimate recollections of Lillian, Dorothy, and many other important figures.
Download or read book Dorothy and Lillian Gish written by Lillian Gish and published by Scribner Book Company. This book was released on 1973-01-01 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Life and Lillian Gish written by Albert Bigelow Paine and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-09-10 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life and Lillian Gish
Download or read book An Actor s Life for Me written by Lillian Gish and published by Viking Juvenile. This book was released on 1987 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers Lillian Gish's childhood years, spent in the theater in the early 1900s before the movie era.
Download or read book Life And Lillian Gish written by Paine Albert Bigelow and published by Double 9 Books. This book was released on 2023-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Life and Lillian Gish" by Albert Bigelow Paine is a biography of one of the most iconic actresses of the silent film era, Lillian Gish. The book details Gish's life from her birth in Ohio in 1893 to her death in New York in 1993 and chronicles her long and successful career in Hollywood. This biography is based on extensive research, including interviews with Gish herself, as well as her family and colleagues in the film industry. The book covers Gish's early years in the theater, her transition to silent films, and her collaborations with legendary director D.W. Griffith in films like "The Birth of a Nation" and "Intolerance." Throughout the biography, Paine portrays Gish as a pioneering figure in the film industry and a resilient and compassionate individual who never lost her love for the art of cinema. Moreover, "Life and Lillian Gish" is a compelling portrait of one of Hollywood's most enduring and influential actresses, and offers a unique insight into the early days of cinema and the cultural and social changes that shaped the 20th century.
Download or read book My Religion written by Helen Keller and published by Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page. This book was released on 1927 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Life and Lillian Gish Illustrated Edition written by Albert Bigelow Paine and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paine (1861-1937) was an American author and biographer best known for his work with Mark Twain. He was a member of the Pulitzer Prize Committee and wrote in several genres including fiction, humour and verse. This book about Lillian Gish (1893-1993), widely recognised as the greatest screen actress of the silent era and also an accomplished stage actress, was first published in 1932 and is illustrated with photographs throughout.
Download or read book Life and Lillian Gish by Albert Bigelow Paine written by Albert Paine and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tranquilly, Lillian Gish sits, dressed in white organdie, her ash blond hair down her back, relaxed on the window seat, looking out for hours into the depths of the California night."'What are you looking at, Lillian?' Mrs. Gish has asked for years."'Nothing, Mother, just looking.'"Allene Talmey."She is an extraordinarily difficult person to know, and if I hadn't gone to live with her ... and been with her through some of the most trying times of her life, I doubt whether our casual contacts at the studio would have brought me any intimate knowledge of her. There seems to be a wall of reserve between her and the outside world, and very few people ever get through that wall."The little things of life simply don't worry her at all. Gales of temperament can rage around her-she remains undisturbed.... I have seen her at a time when anyone else would have been distraught with anxiety, come quietly in from the set, eat her luncheon calmly and collectedly (for first of all, Lillian believes in keeping fit for her work), then pick up some little book of philosophy and read it steadily until they sent for her."She refuses to believe that there are people in the world who are jealous of her and want to harm her. I remember someone once remarking that a certain person was jealous of her and hated her, and I can still see the look of utter surprise on Lillian's face. But it never made any difference in her treatment of that person. In fact, I doubt whether she remembered it when she met her again."She is intensely loyal to those who have helped her along the path of success. She likes to be alone. She has an inexhaustible fund of patience, and a quiet sense of humor."
Download or read book Clara Bow written by David Stenn and published by Cooper Square Press. This book was released on 2000-03-13 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hollywood's first sex symbol, the ' It ' girl, Clara Bow was born in the slums of Brooklyn in a family plagued with alcoholism and insanity. She catapulted to fame after winning Motion Picture magazine's 1921 " Fame and Fortune" contest. The greatest box-office draw of her day—she once received 45,000 fan letters in a single month, Clara Bow's on screen vitality and allure that beguiled thousands, however, would be her undoing off-camera. David Stenn captures her legendary rise to stardom and fall from grace, her success marred by studio exploitation and sexual scandals.
Download or read book Leading Ladies written by Andrea Cornell Sarvady and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2006-03-30 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains photographs and profiles that examine the lives and careers of fifty actresses of the studio era who empowered women, each with an annotated list of films, style notes, behind-the-scene facts, trivia, and a list of awards and nominations.
Download or read book D W Griffith s the Birth of a Nation written by Melvyn Stokes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-01-15 with total page 741 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this deeply researched and vividly written volume, Melvyn Stokes illuminates the origins, production, reception and continuing history of this ground-breaking, aesthetically brilliant, and yet highly controversial movie. By going back to the original archives, particularly the NAACP and D. W. Griffith Papers, Stokes explodes many of the myths surrounding The Birth of a Nation (1915). Yet the story that remains is fascinating: the longest American film of its time, Griffith's film incorporated many new features, including the first full musical score compiled for an American film. It was distributed and advertised by pioneering methods that would quickly become standard. Through the high prices charged for admission and the fact that it was shown, at first, only in "live" theaters with orchestral accompaniment, Birth played a major role in reconfiguring the American movie audience by attracting more middle-class patrons. But if the film was a milestone in the history of cinema, it was also undeniably racist. Stokes shows that the darker side of this classic movie has its origins in the racist ideas of Thomas Dixon, Jr. and Griffith's own Kentuckian background and earlier film career. The book reveals how, as the years went by, the campaign against the film became increasingly successful. In the 1920s, for example, the NAACP exploited the fact that the new Ku Klux Klan, which used Griffith's film as a recruiting and retention tool, was not just anti-black, but also anti-Catholic and anti-Jewish, as a way to mobilize new allies in opposition to the film. This crisply written book sheds light on both the film's racism and the aesthetic brilliance of Griffith's filmmaking. It is a must-read for anyone interested in the cinema.
Download or read book Lillian Gish 212 Success Facts Everything You Need to Know about Lillian Gish written by Douglas Santiago and published by Emereo Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-27 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For The Lillian Gish Maven. This book is your ultimate resource for Lillian Gish. Here you will find the most up-to-date 212 Success Facts, Information, and much more. In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Lillian Gish's Early life, Career and Personal life right away. A quick look inside: The Battle of the Sexes (1914 film) - Plot, Broken Blossoms - The 'closet scene', Women's Cinema - Silent films, The New York Hat - Cast, Marion Davies - Hearst and Cosmopolitan Pictures, Horton Foote - Television, Femme fatale - 20th-century film and theatre, John Elgin Woolf - Legacy, Arthur Miller - Later career, An Innocent Magdalene - Cast, Charles Laughton - The Night of the Hunter, Duel in the Sun (film) - Plot, Alan Hale, Jr. - Later years, Way Down East - Cast, Shelley Winters - Career, Lillian Gish - Books, The Lady and the Mouse - Cast, Ornette Coleman - 2000s, Way Out West (1937 film) - References to other films, The Mothering Heart - Cast, Thomas H. Ince - Triangle Studios, Bowling Green State University - Main, An Unseen Enemy - Cast, 10050 Cielo Drive - History, D.W. Griffith, Dream Street (film), La Boheme (1926 film), True Heart Susie - Cast, List of American actresses - G, Robert Redford - Honors, Biograph Studios - History, Orphans of the Storm - Main cast, Spike Lee - Film, Duel in the Sun (film) - Production, Duel in the Sun (film) - Cast, Robert Harron - Early life and career, Mary Gish, Silent film - Acting techniques, Josephine Crowell, Anthony Slide - Biography, 1917 in film - Notable films released in 1917, 1912 in film - Films released in 1912, Broken Blossoms - Reception, and much more...
Download or read book D W Griffith written by Anthony Slide and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2012-07-02 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: D. W. Griffith (1875–1948) is one of the most influential figures in the history of the motion picture. As director of The Birth of a Nation, he is also one of the most controversial. He raised the cinema to a new level of art, entertainment, and innovation, and at the same time he illustrated, for the first time, its potential to influence an audience and propagandize a cause. Collected together here are virtually all of the “interviews” given by D. W. Griffith from the first in 1914 to the last in 1948. Some of the interviews concentrate on specific films, including The Birth of a Nation, Intolerance, and, most substantially, Hearts of the World, while others provide the director with an opportunity to expound on topics of personal interest, including the importance of proper exhibition of his and other’s films, and his search for truth and beauty on screen. The interviews are taken from many sources, including leading newspapers, trade papers, and fan magazines. They are often marked by humor and by a desire to please the interviewer and thus the reader. Griffith may not have been particularly enthusiastic about giving interviews, but he seems always determined to put on a good show. Ultimately, D. W. Griffith: Interviews provides the reader with a unique insight into the mind and filmmaking techniques of a director whose work and philosophy is as relevant today as it was when he was at the height of his fame in the 1910s and 1920s.
