Originally appearing in a 1942 issue of SCRIPT MAGAZINE was this decidedly "pro" Lilian Gish (1893 – 1993) article concerning the silent film actress and her meteoric rise under the direction of D.W. Griffith, her mediocrity when paired with other directors and her much appreciated march on Broadway.
"Lilian Gish is the damozel of Arthurian legend, tendered in terms of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Her heroines perpetually hover in filtered half-lights, linger in attitudes of romantical despair. They forever drift farther from reality than the dream, and no matter how humble their actual origins, the actress invariably weaves them of the dusk-blues, the dawn-golds of medieval tapestries." Click here if you would like to read an article in which Lillian Gish recalls her part in "Birth of a Nation". Click here to read articles about Marilyn Monroe.
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