Remembering Lillian Gish

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Lillian Gish and John Huston in The Unforgiven (1960)

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Lillian and Dorothy Gish, with There Mother(Mary Gish)

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On this day in 1893, silent superstar Lillian Gish was born in Springfield, Ohio. In 1988, I wrote to her asking if silent films had actual dialogue written out in the scripts or if there was just a general description of what was being said. This was her remarkable reply.

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