Lillian Gish: A Life on Stage and Screen

Lillian Gish: A Life on Stage and Screen
ISBN-10
0786440759
ISBN-13
9780786440757
Category
Performing Arts
Pages
409
Language
English
Published
2009-03-12
Publisher
McFarland
Author
Stuart Oderman

Description

With a theatrical career spanning nearly 100 years, Gish saw motion pictures evolve from flickers to blockbusters. Usually playing someone needing to be rescued or protected, her trademark delicacy and vulnerability belied a strong and complex woman whose fatherless childhood taught her frugality, love for her mother and her sister, Dorothy, and a distrust of men. The author, who was her friend, chronicles the hardships, heartaches, and fierce determination that shaped her all her days. With rare photographs and intimate recollections of Lillian, Dorothy, and many other important figures.

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