- published: 07 Jan 2007
- views: 36784
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A Tribute to Lillian Gish
A montage consists some of Lillian's best photos as a dedication to this great silent actr...
published: 07 Jan 2007
A Tribute to Lillian Gish
A montage consists some of Lillian's best photos as a dedication to this great silent actress.
- published: 07 Jan 2007
- views: 36784
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Lillian Gish Accepts the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1984
In 1984, Lillian Gish (BIRTH OF A NATION, THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER) was the 12th recipient ...
published: 03 May 2011
Lillian Gish Accepts the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1984
In 1984, Lillian Gish (BIRTH OF A NATION, THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER) was the 12th recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award. Listen to her acceptance speech from the ceremony.
- published: 03 May 2011
- views: 20485
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Lillian Gish, Helen Hayes, & Mary Martin Interview with Bill Boggs
Footage Owned by Bill Boggs
http://www.BillBoggs.com
YouTube Managed by Exit 172 Producti...
published: 02 May 2012
Lillian Gish, Helen Hayes, & Mary Martin Interview with Bill Boggs
Footage Owned by Bill Boggs
http://www.BillBoggs.com
YouTube Managed by Exit 172 Productions, LLC.
http://Exit172Productions.com
John Hedlund - Owner & Producer
BillBoggsTV@Gmail.com
- published: 02 May 2012
- views: 2946
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DW GRIFFITH THE MOTHERING HEART 1913 LILLIAN GISH SILENT FILMS on DVD at TVDAYS.com
http://www.TVDAYS.com HOME VIDEO COLLECTION Ira H. Gallen Video Resources 220 West 71st ...
published: 04 Nov 2007
DW GRIFFITH THE MOTHERING HEART 1913 LILLIAN GISH SILENT FILMS on DVD at TVDAYS.com
http://www.TVDAYS.com HOME VIDEO COLLECTION Ira H. Gallen Video Resources 220 West 71st Street NYC 10023 (212) 724 - 7055
- published: 04 Nov 2007
- views: 31681
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The Scarlet Letter - Lillian Gish - 1926
Scene from the very hard to find 1926 silent classic The Scarlet Letter. In this scene, t...
published: 28 Feb 2010
The Scarlet Letter - Lillian Gish - 1926
Scene from the very hard to find 1926 silent classic The Scarlet Letter. In this scene, the Puritan villagers feel it is their duty to take the illegitimate child of Hester Prynne (Lillian Gish) and have it placed in a proper household. Their plan, however, is stopped, when Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale (Lars Hanson) arrives and convinces them that this would not be a good idea.
- published: 28 Feb 2010
- views: 43073
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Lillian Gish in BROKEN BLOSSOMS -- The Closet Scene
The famous "closet scene" from BROKEN BLOSSOMS (1919) became a benchmark for sheer terror ...
published: 11 May 2010
Lillian Gish in BROKEN BLOSSOMS -- The Closet Scene
The famous "closet scene" from BROKEN BLOSSOMS (1919) became a benchmark for sheer terror in cinema, and its preeminence in that regard would not be seriously challenged for over forty years, until Hitchcock gave us PSYCHO.
In the movie, Gish's father has dragged her character home and is preparing to horsewhip her to death. Terrified, she dives into the closet and locks the door against him, listening in raw terror to his angry ravings and then his battering down of the door with a hatchet, THE SHINING-style. Alone in the dark, the doomed young girl has plenty of time to contemplate what is about to happen to her.
On the day it was to be shot, Griffith ran Gish ragged until 2 a.m., trying to get her into an exhausted state conducive to losing herself in the moment. What he didn't know was that she had been rehearsing the scene in private "almost without sleep" for three days and nights, striving to come up with the perfect pantomime for terror, some action or gesture that would pierce the audience like a knife in the heart:
"I worked that out myself. I never told Griffith what I was going to do. You see, if I had told him, he'd have made me rehearse it over and over again; and that would have spoilt it. It had to be spontaneous, the hysterical terror of a child.
Well, when I came to play the scene in front of the camera, I did it as I planned -- spinning and screaming terribly (I was a good screamer; Mr. Griffith used to encourage me to scream at the top of my voice). When we finished, Mr. Griffith was very pale."
It remains, for all of the advances we've had in technology, an electrifying scene. "I have seen every actress of America and Europe during the last half-century," the famous actor Rudolph Schildkraut said at the time. "Lillian Gish's scene in the closet, where she is hiding in terror from her brutal father, is the finest work I have ever witnessed."
Normally during a shoot, Griffith's highest praise after a scene was to murmur with soft content, "That is very fine." But on this night, after Lillian Gish had screamed for long minutes like a banshee and twirled around in the enclosed closet space like a feral animal, Griffith's response was "My God -- why didn't you warn me you were going to do that?" One suspects that he said this with a huge smile, for cameraman Billy Bitzer reports that, while Gish was immersed in her throes of terror, he snuck a glance over at Griffith and saw that he was "leaned forward in his directors chair, relishing every moment of it."
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- published: 11 May 2010
- views: 17193
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The Scarlet Letter - Lillian Gish - Lars Hanson - Victor Sjöström - 1926
Filmes clássicos de domínio público: http://telecinebrasil.blogspot.com...
published: 14 Jul 2012
The Scarlet Letter - Lillian Gish - Lars Hanson - Victor Sjöström - 1926
Filmes clássicos de domínio público: http://telecinebrasil.blogspot.com
- published: 14 Jul 2012
- views: 4730
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Lillian Gish Introduces Keaton Classics
Lillian Gish on 'The Silent Years' introducing Buster Keaton's classics 'One Week' and 'Co...
published: 05 Sep 2009
Lillian Gish Introduces Keaton Classics
Lillian Gish on 'The Silent Years' introducing Buster Keaton's classics 'One Week' and 'College'.
- published: 05 Sep 2009
- views: 11270
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1919 Broken Blossoms (Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Donald Crisp)
A frail waif, abused by her brutish boxer father in London's seedy Limehouse District, is ...
published: 29 Nov 2012
1919 Broken Blossoms (Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Donald Crisp)
A frail waif, abused by her brutish boxer father in London's seedy Limehouse District, is befriended by a sensitive Chinese immigrant with tragic consequences.
Cast
Lillian Gish ... Lucy - The Girl (as Miss Lillian Gish)
Richard Barthelmess ... The Yellow Man (as Mr. Richard Barthelmess)
Donald Crisp ... Battling Burrows
Arthur Howard ... His Manager
Edward Peil Sr. ... Evil Eye (as Edward Peil)
George Beranger ... The Spying One
Norman Selby ... A Prizefighter
Ernest Butterworth ... (uncredited)
Fred Hamer ... (uncredited)
Wilbur Higby ... London Policeman (uncredited)
Moon Kwan ... Buddhist Monk (uncredited)
Steve Murphy ... Fight Spectator (uncredited)
George Nichols ... (uncredited)
Karla Schramm ... (uncredited)
Directed By D. W. Griffith
Written By D. W. Griffith
Produced By D. W. Griffith
Written By George Hennessy
Cinematography By G. W. Bitzer
Film Edited By James Smith
Details
Country: USA
Release Date: October 20, 1919 (USA)
Also Known As: Broken Blossoms Or The Yellow Man And The Girl
Production Co: D.W. Griffith Productions, Paramount Pictures
Filming Locations: Fine Arts Studios - 4516 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood
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- published: 29 Nov 2012
- views: 164
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The Whales of August. Trailer. With Lillian Gish and Bette Davis.
Cute story with Lillian Gish and Bette Davis.
Adorable movie.. You should check it out :)...
published: 05 May 2011
The Whales of August. Trailer. With Lillian Gish and Bette Davis.
Cute story with Lillian Gish and Bette Davis.
Adorable movie.. You should check it out :)
- published: 05 May 2011
- views: 6768
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Lillian Gish in BROKEN BLOSSOMS - The Smile
In BROKEN BLOSSOMS (1919), it was in the memorable nuances of her performance that twenty-...
published: 11 May 2010
Lillian Gish in BROKEN BLOSSOMS - The Smile
In BROKEN BLOSSOMS (1919), it was in the memorable nuances of her performance that twenty-six-year-old Lillian Gish really managed to bring off the illusion of playing the part of a child of fifteen.
The most famous of these is now known as "The Smile." In the story, Gish's monstrously cruel father, sick of her incessant gloom and despair, orders her to give him a smile. Director D. W. Griffith and his cast thought long and hard about some meaningful response Gish could give her father in that moment, some bit of pantomime that could expose the depths of sorrow permeating her soul.
But it was Gish who came up with the answer, a perfect gesture that has since gone down as an iconic statement in the annals of filmmaking. As she explains it: "Suddenly it came to me: in the midst of the scene, and while the camera was grinding, I lifted my hand, spread my index and second fingers, and pushed up the corners of my lips into a ghastly, fixed-mouth smile. Mr. Griffith leapt to his feet and shouted: 'Hold it!' We did the scene many times until he was satisfied, and then he said to me: 'Lillian, that is the only original piece of acting I have ever seen in the pictures'."
Griffith would have Gish repeat that ineffably sad and pathetic gesture at several points in the film.
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Join conservative cinéaste Leo Grin as he journeys through the history of the greatest art form of our time, highlighting the intellectual, mythological, and cultural importance of the discipline from a right-wing perspective. Read penetrating essays on each film, explore a host of accompanying links to further reading, find information on buying and renting the discussed movies, and add your comments to the ongoing film-club discussion.
- published: 11 May 2010
- views: 12079
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Robert Mitchum - The Night of the Hunter - "Leaning"
Robert Mitchum and Lilian Gish in Charles Laughton's wonderful movie, "The Night of the Hu...
published: 02 Jan 2007
Robert Mitchum - The Night of the Hunter - "Leaning"
Robert Mitchum and Lilian Gish in Charles Laughton's wonderful movie, "The Night of the Hunter"
- published: 02 Jan 2007
- views: 163884
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1922 Orphans Of The Storm (Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Joseph Schildkraut )
1922 Orphans Of The Storm (Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Joseph Schildkraut )...
published: 16 Apr 2012
1922 Orphans Of The Storm (Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Joseph Schildkraut )
1922 Orphans Of The Storm (Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Joseph Schildkraut )
- published: 16 Apr 2012
- views: 976