Life and Lillian Gish

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Biography & Autobiography, Performing Arts

Authors: Albert Bigelow Paine In Year : 1932

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Life and Lillian Gish

Epigraph
Prologue
A Girl Child, Born with a Caul
Life and a Little Girl
On Nat Goodwin's Shoulder
'Theatre People'
A Little Trouper
Adventures of Dorothy
Mary Pickford in the Scene
'Down the Line'
'Her First False Step'
Dorothy's Tree
'Supporting Bernhardt'
Massillon Days
Where the 'Road' Ends. Nell
A Convent School. Typhoid
Shawnee
It Sounds Like Heaven
'Mr. Biograph'
Griffith's Group of Players
Belasco Delivers a Verdict
A Studio on Pico Street
The Path to Stardom
'Home Sweet Home'
'The Birth of a Nation'
'Intolerance'
There Were No Love Affairs
The Nightmare of War
Under Fire
France
'Hearts of the World'
'Broken Blossoms'
'I Work Such Long Hours'
Director Lillian
'Way Down East'
Sad, Unprofitable Days
Picturing the Reign of Terror
Italy
'The White Sister'
'Romola'
Also, the Intelligentsia
'La Bohême'
'The Scarlet Letter'
'The First Lady of the Screen'
'Wind'
Good-bye California
Reinhardt
The Shadow Speaks
On the Flying Carpet
'One Romantic Night'
'Uncle Vanya'
'Helena' in New York
'The Penalty of Greatness'
Working with Lillian
'Uncle Vanya' Takes the Road
Reliving the Years
A Few Notes
L'Envoi

An authorized biography of Lillian Gish, the renowned silent film star known in her heyday as the First Lady of American Cinema. Albert Bigelow Paine chronicles Gish's early life, her close relationship with her sister Dorothy, her rise in film as an actor with Biograph Studios and muse of D. W. Griffith, her short time as a contract actor with MGM, and her return to the stage in the advent of the talkies. Peppered throughout with intimate and amusing anecdotes, this is a must-read for film historians, silent film enthusiasts, and admirers of one of cinema's legendary talents. (Tomas Peter)