Lillian Gish

Lillian Diana GishAlthough there are unsupported claims that the Gish sisters were born with the surname "de Guiche", in fact their surname at birth was "Gish". According to Lillian Gish: Her Legend, Her Life (2001), a biography by Charles Affron: "The Gish name was initially the source of some mystification. In 1922, at the time of the opening of Orphans of the Storm, Lillian reported that the Gish family was of French origin, descending from the Duke de Guiche ... [S]uch press-agentry falsification was common." (14 Oktober 1893 27 Fberuari 1993) merupakan pelakon pentas dan filem Amerika Syarikat,Lillian Gish - North American Theatre Online yang turut bergelar pengarah dan penulis. Beliau mula berlakon pada tahun 1912 sehingga 1987.

Gish merupakan bintang yang menyerlah pada tahun 1901-an dan 1920-an dan sering berlakon dalam filem-filem arahan D. W. Griffith, termasuklah The Birth of a Nation (1915). 

Gillian meninggal dunia dalam tidur akibat kegagalan jantung pada 27 Februari 1993 di usia 99 tahun. Beliau tidak pernah berkahwin dan merupakan kakak kepada pelakon Dorothy Gish. 

Biografi
 The Movies, Mr. Griffith, and Me (with Ann Pinchot) (Prentice-Hall, 1969)
 Dorothy and Lillian Gish (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1973)
 An Actor's Life For Me (with Selma G. Lanes) (Viking Penguin, 1987)
 Lillian Gish: the Movies, Mr. Griffith and Me, by Gish co-authored with Ann Pinchot; , W.H. Allen 1969, and  Mercury House, 1988.
 Abel, Richard, et al. Flickers of desire: movie stars of the 1910s (Rutgers University Press, 2011).
  Affron, Charles. Star Acting: Gish, Garbo, Davis (E.P. Dutton, 1977)
  Affron, Charles. Lillian Gish Her Legend, Her Life (University of California Press, 2002) revised paperback edition
 Berke, Annie, Never Let the Camera Catch Me Acting': Lillian Gish as Actress, Star, and Theorist", Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television 36 (June 2016), 175–89.
 Bogdanovich, Peter. A Moment with Miss Gish (Santa Teresa Press, 1995).
 Oderman, Stuart. Lillian Gish: A Life on Stage and Screen (McFarland, 2000).

Rujukan

Pautan luar





 Lillian Gish at Women Film Pioneers Project
 Lillian Gish papers, 1909–1992, held by the Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

 Lillian Gish Film Festival in Springfield, Ohio 
 The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Film Theater 
 Extensive Lillian Gish gallery
 Photographs and bibliography
 Lillian Gish Biography at The New York Times
 Lillian Gish: First Lady of the Silent Screen

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