LILLIAN GISH - INSCRIBED SIGNATURE - HFSID 19675

LILLIAN GISH
Gish signs a 5x3 card inscribing it to a fan
Inscribed signature: "To Jim/Lillian Gish:". 5x3 card. Magazine photograph, b/w, 1x1 affixed at lower right corner. Ink notes (unknown hand) on verso: "Nov. 11, 1952/on 5th Ave". Brief biography typed at upper margin, listing of films typed at lower margin. Biography clipped from magazine affixed at upper left corner of verso. 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. Light diagonal crease at lower left corner. Rectangular show through touches the "ish" of signature. Photograph lightly rippled from mounting. Overall, fine condition.