LILLIAN GISH (D-1993) Signed 3X5 Card - "The First Lady of American Cinema"

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Here is a 3X5 index card signed by legendary actress, Lillian Gish.
Miss Gish passed in 1993.
The card in in excellent condition.
Lillian
Gish
were born into a broken family. Her mother, Mary Robinson McConnell, a.k.a.
Mary Gish
, had entered into acting to make money to support the family. As soon as Lillian and her younger sister were old enough, they became part of the act. In 1912, they met fellow child actress
Mary Pickford
, and she got them extra work with Biograph films.
Director
D.W. Griffith
was impressed with Lillian, with her exquisitely fragile, ethereal beauty. Over the next decade, she became one of Griffith's greatest stars. She appeared in features such as
The Birth of a Nation
(1915),
Broken Blossoms
(1919), and
Orphans of the Storm
(1921). With Griffith, she became the greatest screen heroine of the time and was known as "The First Lady of the Silent Screen". She even directed a film,
Remodeling Her Husband
(1920), which starred her sister.
After 13 years with Griffith, she went to MGM, where her first picture was
La Bohème
(1926). She resisted the new sound pictures, as she believed that silent pictures had a greater power and impact on audiences. And this was true in the beginning, as they did not worry about the microphone. She was released by MGM in 1928 and went back to the stage with great success, where she would continue, on and off, for the next half-century.
In the 1940s she appeared in three big-budget films:
Duel in the Sun
(1946),
Commandos Strike at Dawn
(1942) and
Top Man
(1943). She won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for her role as Laura Belle McCanles in
Duel in the Sun
(1946). In 1970, she received a special Academy Award 'for superlative artistry and distinguished contributions to the progress of motion pictures'. Her last film was
The Whales of August
(1987), in which she shared the lead with
Bette Davis
. Gish never married.
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