Lillian gish biography imdb

American actress (–)

Lillian Diana Gish^[1] (October 14, – February 27, ) was an American actress. Her film-acting career spanned 75 years, from , in silent filmshorts, to Gish was dubbed the "First Lady of the Screen" by Vanity Fair in ^[2] and is credited with pioneering fundamental film performance techniques.^[3] In , the American Film Institute ranked Gish as the 17th-greatest female movie star of Classic Hollywood cinema.^[4]

Having acted on stage with her sister as a child, Gish was a prominent film star from into the s, being particularly associated with the films of director D.

W. Griffith. This included her leading role in the highest-grossing film of the silent era, Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (). Her other major films and performances from the silent era included Intolerance (), Broken Blossoms (), Way Down East (), Orphans of the Storm (), La Bohème (), and The Wind ().

At the dawn of the sou