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Known for:	The Birth of a Nation, The Night of the Hunter, Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl
Birth name:	Lillian Diana de Guiche
Birthday:	14 October 1893, Springfield, Ohio, USA
Height:	5' 5½" (1.66 m)
Available Photos	1

The Smashing Pumpkins first Album was named "Gish" after her. Sister of Dorothy Gish. American Film Institute Life Achievement Award [1984] Blue eyes On 11 June 1976, the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Film Theater was dedicated on the Bowling Green State University campus in Bowling Green, Ohio, USA. Interred at Saint Bartholomew's Episcopal Church, New York City, New York, USA. Career spanned 75 years. Every year on Gish's birthdate, October 14, New York's Museum of Modern Art shows at least one of her films or TV performances. She once autographed an 8mm copy of her film The Battle at Elderbush Gulch for a young filmmaker named Harry McDevitt. Related, on her mother's side, to U.S. President Zachary Taylor. Daughter of actress Mary Gish. After her amicable parting with D.W. Griffith she joined MGM in 1925, but was unceremoniously dumped when Greta Garbo emerged as a star. Considered a "sexless antique," she turned to radio and her first love, the theater. Ironically, MGM had Garbo on the set of The Scarlet Letter every day to watch Gish work as part of her apprenticeship. John Gilbert was infatuated with her, and would mess up his "love scenes" with her in the filming of Boheme, La on purpose, so he could keep kissing her. While shooting Way Down East, she was required to lie down on a slab of ice that was floating in a river for several hours in order to shoot a scene. While she did this, one of her hands was immersed in freezing cold water for hours, which permanently damaged the nerves in her wrist. She held director D.W. Griffith in such high regard that, up until her death in 1993, she would always refer to him as "Mr. Griffith." Lillian and Mary Pickford were childhood friends, but Mary tried to never be left alone with Lillian--remembering her mother's superstitious belief that "the good die young," Mary was in constant fear that Lillian would drop dead at any moment. Was named #17 Actress, The American Film Institutes 50 Greatest Screen Legends Is portrayed by Mackenzie Phillips in Moviola: The Silent Lovers Was of French, English and German descent. She and Dorothy Gish both started working for D.W. Griffith in the early days of Biograph Studio. While it's been claimed that Griffith was immediately infatuated with Lillian, in their first film for him, An Unseen Enemy, he thought they were twins. According to Lillian's autobiography, he had to tie different colored hair ribbons on the girls to tell them apart and give them direction: "Red, you hear a strange noise. Run to your sister. Blue, you're scared too. Look toward me, where the camera is." Gish was taught how to shoot by notorious outlaw Al J. Jennings, who was in one of her films. When John Huston and Burt Lancaster took her to the desert to teach her how to shoot for "The Unforgiven" they were astounded to discover she could shoot more accurately and faster than they. She found that she liked shooting and over the years had developed into an expert shot.

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