Lillian Gish
Birthday: 1893-10-14
Place of Birth: Springfield, Ohio, USA
Biography: Lillian Diana Gish (October 14, 1893 – February 27, 1993) was an American stage, screen and television actress whose film acting career spanned 75 years, from 1912 to 1987. She was a prominent film star of the 1910s and 1920s, particularly associated with the films of director D.W. Griffith, including her leading role in Griffith's seminal Birth of a Nation (1915). Her sound-era film appearances were sporadic, but included memorable roles in the controversial western Duel in the Sun (1946) and the offbeat thriller Night of the Hunter (1955). She did considerable television work from the early 1950s into the 1980s, and closed her career playing, for the first time, opposite Bette Davis in the 1987 film The Whales of August. The American Film Institute (AFI) named Gish 17th among the greatest female stars of all time. She was awarded an Honorary Academy Award in 1971, and in 1984 she received an AFI Life Achievement Award.
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Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl
The love story of an abused English girl and a Chinese Buddhist in a time when London was a brutal a...
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The Birth of a Nation
Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwin...
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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven wit...
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The Night of the Hunter
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The Wind
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The Unforgiven
The neighbors of a frontier family turn on them when it is suspected that their beloved adopted daug...
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Way Down East
A naive country girl is tricked into a sham marriage by a wealthy womanizer, then must rebuild her l...
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Lillian Gish: The Actor's Life for Me
Called "the first lady of the silent screen," Lillian Gish was the archetypal silent film heroine — ...
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Duel in the Sun
Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself...
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Orders to Kill
A grounded American fighter pilot is switched to espionage on a special job in which he must kill a ...
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Early Directors on Directing
There were more women directors before 1920 than at any other time in history. The first director to...
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Follow Me, Boys!
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I Am Not a Racist
A parody of D. W. Griffith's "The Birth of a Nation", "I Am Not a Racist" rearranges the scenes of t...
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True Heart Susie
Susie secretly loves her neighbor, William Jenkins, but neither, it seems, can confess their feeling...
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Orphans of the Storm
France, on the eve of the French Revolution. Henriette and Louise have been raised together as siste...
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The Musketeers of Pig Alley
A man recognizes the thief who had previously robbed him as one of the men involved in an unrelated ...
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A Wedding
Muffin's wedding to Dino Corelli is to be a big affair. Except the ageing priest isn't too sure of t...
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Sweet Liberty
Michael Burgess is an academic who has written a scholarly book on the American Revolution which Hol...
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The Whales of August
Two aged sisters reflect on life and the past during a late summer day in Maine....
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The White Sister
Angela Chiaromonte is the daughter of a wealthy Italian prince who is killed in a fall from his hors...
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Romola
In Renaissance Florence, a Florentine trader meets a shipwrecked stranger, who introduces himself as...
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The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
A documentary of Hollywood's first great Latin Lover, the contradictions in his personal life, and h...
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The Cobweb
Patients and staff at a posh psychiatric clinic clash over who chooses the clinic’s new drapes – but...
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Two Daughters of Eve
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The Scarlet Letter
In Puritan Boston, seamstress Hester Prynne and kindly Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale fall in love. Afte...
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Gold and Glitter
As the husband leaves for the lumber regions, his wife gives him a memory message to be opened after...
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A Cry for Help
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The Left-Handed Man
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Just Gold
The brothers choose between love and gold. The three brothers sought the gold regions. The fourth ch...
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During the Round-Up
Called away on a deal, the ranchero left the foreman in full charge of the round-up. That was the op...
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A Modest Hero
It is house cleaning time. Mother-in-law leaves, but insists that husband must be put to work, but h...
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So Runs the Way
The young wife only reflected her aspiring mother's teaching. Her one ambition seemed to be for disp...
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The Conscience of Hassan Bey
From the dungeon where the lean beasts prowled, Hassan Bey summoned from her young lover's arms the ...
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The Hunchback
"The Hunchback" earns a scanty living as a tinker, traveling from house to house, but on account of ...
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Warning Shot
Hounded by the press for shooting a doctor, an ousted Los Angeles policeman works his own case....
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An Unseen Enemy
The physician's death orphans his two adolescent daughters. Their older brother is able to convert s...
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The Mothering Heart
A young couple struggle to get ahead, the wife always assuaging the troubles of her melancholy husba...
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Judith of Bethulia
Griffith adapts the story of the Apocryphal Book of Judith to the screen. During the siege of the Je...
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Commandos Strike at Dawn
A gentle widower, enraged at Nazi atrocities against his peaceful Norwegian fishing village, escapes...
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Enoch Arden
Seamen Enoch Arden returns home after a long absence marooned on a desert island. At home he finds h...
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The Battle at Elderbush Gulch
Two young girls are sent away to live with their uncle, which sets off a chain of events resulting i...
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La Bohème
A group of starving artists try to survive in 1830s Paris, including a seamstress and the would-be p...
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Night Hunter
In this handmade film, composed of more than four thousand collages, the actress Lillian Gish is sea...
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The New York Hat
To fulfill a dying mother's bequest for her daughter, the town pastor purchases the daughter a styli...
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Hambone and Hillie
An elderly woman searches for her lost dog. Director Roy Watts' 1984 drama stars Lillian Gish, Timot...
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From Farm to Fame
A two-reel comedy featuring Corliss Palmer, First Prize Winner of the 1920 Fame and Fortune Contest,...
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The Spiral Staircase
Based on the screenplay by Mel Dinelli, this story revolves around Helen Warren, a beautiful mute gi...
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The Painted Lady
A lonely young woman lives with her strict father who forbids her to wear make-up. One day at an ice...
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His Double Life
Priam Farrel is a celebrated artist but a social recluse. When his valet dies of a sudden illness, a...
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A Romance of Happy Valley
John Logan leaves his parents and sweetheart in bucolic Happy Valley to make his fortune in the city...
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So Near, Yet So Far
It's love at first sight for the Boy, but obstacles— namely shyness, and the temerity of other suito...
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The Burglar’s Dilemma
In this latter day Cain and Abel story, a jealous brother strikes down his sibling just as a young b...
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One Romantic Night
A princess is forced to choose between a charming tutor and a rakish prince....
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Home, Sweet Home
John Howard Payne leaves home and begins a career in the theater. Despite encouragement from his mot...
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Hearts of the World
A group of youngsters grow up and love in a peaceful French village. But war intrudes and peace is s...
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The Greatest Question
Young Nellie Jarvis, daughter of a wandering couple, witnesses the murder of a woman by a man and hi...
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Annie Laurie
The story of the famous battle between the Scots clans of Macdonald and Campbell, and the young woma...
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The Lily and the Rose
To the dismay of Allison Edwards, her bookworm, adoring neighbor, Mary Randolph, falls in love with ...
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Top Man
In this WW II musical, a young man suddenly finds himself in charge of his family when his father is...
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His Lesson
This shows the regeneration of a gang leader, who remains true to his first sweetheart after his cha...
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Miss Susie Slagle's
A student nurse falls in love with a young intern in 1910 Baltimore, but tragedy ensues when he cont...
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The Comedians
American and British tourists get caught up in political unrest in Haiti....
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Daphne and the Pirate
Philip de Mornay, a courtier in the French royal court of the 18th century, falls in love with Daphn...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Adventurous Huck Finn prefers rafting on the Mississippi River rather than being a part of civilizat...
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Night of 100 Stars II
This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a...
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An Innocent Magdalene
When Dorothy's Southern, aristocratic father Colonel Raleigh refuses to let her marry Forbes Stewart...
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Diane of the Follies
Phillips Christy an amateur sociologist from a wealthy family, subscribes to the theory that people ...
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The House Built Upon Sand
Evelyn Dare is a butterfly of fashion. David Westebrooke, her fiancé, is an altruist interested in s...
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The Great Love
Jim Young of Youngstown, Pennsylvania, reads of the German war atrocities and decides to enlist in t...
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The Greatest Thing in Life
A lost film. Leo Peret has a small quiet tobacco shop in Greenwich Village. Edward Livingston, a wea...
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An Indian's Loyalty
Suspected of theft, the Indian was discharged on the ranch-hand's accusation, but the foreman's susp...
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A Woman in the Ultimate
The unwilling dupe of her step-father, she became the decoy of the wealthy young man, but at the cru...
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The Enemy
Carl Behrend, son of a wealthy businessman, marries Pauli Arndt, daughter of a pacifist professor. W...
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Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies
This documentary traces the life and work of the legendary "America's Sweetheart" Mary Pickford, sil...
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Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
The film's subject is a photograph of Jane Fonda visiting Hanoi during the Vietnam War. It asks what...
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Langlois
Documentary portrait of Henri Langlois, co-founder of the Cinémathèque Française....
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Sold for Marriage
A poor Russian girl's beauty leads her unscrupulous uncle to bring her to the United States. There h...
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Greta Garbo: The Temptress and the Clown
Two part biography of Greta Garbo - 1. The Temptress 2. The Clown. Reminiscences of her early life i...
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Souls Triumphant
Lillian Vale is the naïve and unworldly daughter of minister Josiah Vale. Swept off her feet by hand...
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Screen Snapshots (Series 1, No. 20)
Intimate views of the movie stars of the Silent Era, at work and play; featuring Sessue Hayakawa, Li...
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Lillian Gish in a Liberty Loan Appeal
Instead of buying bonds, Lillian buys new clothes. Then she has a dream that her home has been invad...
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The Comedians in Africa
Behind the scenes short documentary about the cast and crew during the filming of The Comedians....
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Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults, this time with Roman of...
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D.W. Griffith - Years of Discovery 1909-1913
In the span of five years, pioneering director D.W. Griffith delivered some 450 films for the Biogra...
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The Little Tease
The supposition was that she was born a tease, for from her first teeth to the time she was almost g...
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Moving Pictures: 'The Night of the Hunter'
Short documentary about Charles Laughton's 1995 film "The Night of the Hunter," with interviews with...
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Arsenic and Old Lace
A drama critic learns on his wedding day that his beloved maiden aunts are homicidal maniacs, and th...
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Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists
The careers of D.W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and Charlie Chaplin are chronicled c...
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The Battle of the Sexes
Frank Andrews is a successful businessman. He has always found pride and joy in the company of his w...
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Sigrid Holmquist
The story of Swedish silent film actress Sigrid Holmquist's life (1899-1970), by using the silent fi...
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Hobson's Choice
Daughter of the owner of a shoe store rebels against her father by marrying one of his employees....
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A Timely Interception
A farmer has saved all his life to pay for his daughter's wedding, but when his brother is fired fro...
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Mrs. Winchester's House
Documentary about the life and legend of Sarah L. Winchester, heiress to the Winchester Repeating Ar...
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The Women Who Run Hollywood
The first talkie was directed by Alice Guy, the first color film was produced by Lois Weber, who dir...
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Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
Ossie Davis narrates a history of "race films," films made before 1950 which catered to a primarily ...
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Thin Ice
A teacher falls in love with a student, and deals with the reactions of the people around her....
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The Lady and the Mouse
The question is, would the young tramp really have fallen in love with the groceryman's daughter if ...
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In the Aisles of the Wild
A widower and his two daughters live in the wilds of the north woods. They form the acquaintance of ...
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A Misunderstood Boy
Everything he did seemed to be misconstrued, except by the little lady he loved. The town roisters m...
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Madonna of the Storm
The bored clubman sought the excitement of the street. The husband, believing himself neglected for ...
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The Green-Eyed Devil
Jim Miller lives in a cheap tenement with his wife and his sister. They had been in a better positio...
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The Quicksands
Captain Lanning and Lieutenant Osborne are stationed at an army post in the Philippines. Lanning con...
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The Rebellion of Kitty Belle
Kitty, the pretty young wife of a Texas businessman, feels neglected and unwanted as her husband pay...
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Lord Chumley
After Gasper La Sage and his cohort, Blink Blunk, are released from prison, they make plans for anot...
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The Angel of Contention
Nettie is beloved by all the boys in the mining camp. Magoon, a big, jovial miner, loves her most of...
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Man's Enemy
Set in London (but filmed in New Jersey), the story endeavors to prove that man's greatest enemy is ...
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The Folly of Anne
A picture from the short story of Ellen Farley in "The Cavalier," and screened by John O'Brian. The ...
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The Sisters
May and her younger sister, Carol, live in a small town. May is the more lovely of the two, but Caro...
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The Lost House
Before his niece and ward, Dosia Dale, comes of age, her uncle, who has spent her entire fortune, mu...
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Captain Macklin
Royal Macklin, a cadet at WEst Point, is discharged for a misdemeanor, and the father of Beatrice, M...
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Pathways of Life
A girl tends a garden planted with symbolic flowers: red roses for lust and white roses for love. Da...
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The Trip to Bountiful
A woman has to live with a daughter in law who hates her and a son who does not dare take her side. ...
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Twin Detectives
Identical twin brothers who own a detective agency hatch a plan to expose a phony group of psychics,...
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The House of Darkness
A potentially violent patient in an insane asylum is calmed when he hears a nurse playing the piano....
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The Blue or the Gray
It was Christmas Eve in the south, but the spirit of peace and love did not pervade the northern gir...
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The Informer
The young lover leaving home at the opening of the war to join the Confederate Army, tells his broth...
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The One She Loved
Roy Norris, a young author, proposes to pretty Mary Ford and is accepted. The first year or more of ...
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My Baby
When the double wedding takes two daughters away from the old man at once, the youngest, now the onl...
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Oil and Water
A stage dancer (Sweet) and a serious-type homebody (Walthall) discover, after marriage, that their i...
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The Unwelcome Guest
Just before she dies, an elderly married woman stashes the horde of money she's secretly accumulated...
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Brutality
An abusive father and husband attends a play one night and sees that the "villain" in the piece does...
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The Flapper
The buoyant energy of a modern woman who bobs her hair and dances to jazz is too often objectified a...
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Lillian Gish
New York, summer 1983. Jeanne Moreau goes to meet Lillian Gish to film a portrait of her. The star o...
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Night of 100 Stars
The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place ...
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The Great Chase
A rollicking compendium of the greatest hits of silent-cinema chase sequences...
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Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
A TV special on the 100th anniversary of the birth of film....
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Lionpower from MGM
"Lionpower from MGM" (1967) is an exciting 60's promotional short subject, which showcases MGM's rel...
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