LILLIAN GISH - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH - HFSID 143784
Price: $280.00
LILLIAN GISH. Photograph inscribed and signed: "Dear John
Burton/This with every fond wish//Lillian/Gish:". B/w, 4x6. Name imprinted
at lower left. Lillian Gish (1896-1993), born Lillian de Guiche, began her
career as child actress "Baby Lillian" at the age of five. Lillian and her
sister, Dorothy (1898-1968), who often toured with Lillian, made their film
debuts (along with their mother, Mary Gish) in D.W. Griffith's film, An
Unseen Enemy in 1912. Over the next several years, Lillian, who is
credited as being the first true actress for recognizing the crucial differences
between stage and film work and delivering carefully crafted performances, would
make a number of films for Griffith, including The Birth of a Nation
(1915), Intolerance (1916), Way Down East (1920) and Orphans of
the Storm (1922). In 1923, she went to MGM, where she made La Boheme
and The Scarlet Letter (both 1926). In 1930, Gish appeared in her first
sound film, One Romantic Night (1930). Lillian, who was known as "The
First Lady of the Silent Screen", was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress
Academy Award for Duel in The Sun (1946) and received an honorary Oscar
in 1970 for her contributions to film. Minor surface scratches (not evident
head on). Fine condition.
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