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Download or read book Lillian Gish written by Charles Affron and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-03-12 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As someone who worked with and knew Lillian Gish for years, I found Charles Affron’s portrait revealing and moving. He rekindles the life of this intuitive and generous artist beautifully."—Eva Marie Saint
Book Synopsis The Movies, Mr Griffith and Me by : Lillian Gish
Download or read book The Movies, Mr Griffith and Me written by Lillian Gish and published by Virgin Books Limited. This book was released on 1988 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lillian Gish written by Stuart Oderman and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Life and Lillian Gish by : Albert Bigelow Paine
Download or read book Life and Lillian Gish written by Albert Bigelow Paine and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-11 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work sheds light on the life and works of Lillian Gish, an American actress, director, and screenwriter known as the "First Lady of American Cinema." Her film career spanned 75 years, from silent film shorts to 1987. Her notable films from the silent era include The Birth of a Nation (1915), Intolerance (1916), and Way Down East (1920). Gish acted on stage with her sister as a child and was particularly associated with the films of D.W. Griffith. Moreover, she was an advocate for the preservation of silent film and was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1972.
Book Synopsis Dorothy and Lillian Gish by : Lillian Gish
Download or read book Dorothy and Lillian Gish written by Lillian Gish and published by Scribner Book Company. This book was released on 1973-01-01 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis An Actor's Life for Me! by : Lillian Gish
Download or read book An Actor's Life for Me! written by Lillian Gish and published by Viking Juvenile. This book was released on 1987 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers Lillian Gish's childhood years, spent in the theater in the early 1900s before the movie era.
Book Synopsis The Movies, Mr. Griffith, and Me by : Lillian Gish
Download or read book The Movies, Mr. Griffith, and Me written by Lillian Gish and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book My Religion written by Helen Keller and published by Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page. This book was released on 1927 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Life And Lillian Gish by : Paine Albert Bigelow
Download or read book Life And Lillian Gish written by Paine Albert Bigelow and published by Double 9 Books. This book was released on 2023-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Life and Lillian Gish" by Albert Bigelow Paine is a biography of one of the most iconic actresses of the silent film era, Lillian Gish. The book details Gish's life from her birth in Ohio in 1893 to her death in New York in 1993 and chronicles her long and successful career in Hollywood. This biography is based on extensive research, including interviews with Gish herself, as well as her family and colleagues in the film industry. The book covers Gish's early years in the theater, her transition to silent films, and her collaborations with legendary director D.W. Griffith in films like "The Birth of a Nation" and "Intolerance." Throughout the biography, Paine portrays Gish as a pioneering figure in the film industry and a resilient and compassionate individual who never lost her love for the art of cinema. Moreover, "Life and Lillian Gish" is a compelling portrait of one of Hollywood's most enduring and influential actresses, and offers a unique insight into the early days of cinema and the cultural and social changes that shaped the 20th century.
Book Synopsis Life and Lillian Gish by Albert Bigelow Paine by : Albert Paine
Download or read book Life and Lillian Gish by Albert Bigelow Paine written by Albert Paine and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tranquilly, Lillian Gish sits, dressed in white organdie, her ash blond hair down her back, relaxed on the window seat, looking out for hours into the depths of the California night."'What are you looking at, Lillian?' Mrs. Gish has asked for years."'Nothing, Mother, just looking.'"Allene Talmey."She is an extraordinarily difficult person to know, and if I hadn't gone to live with her ... and been with her through some of the most trying times of her life, I doubt whether our casual contacts at the studio would have brought me any intimate knowledge of her. There seems to be a wall of reserve between her and the outside world, and very few people ever get through that wall."The little things of life simply don't worry her at all. Gales of temperament can rage around her-she remains undisturbed.... I have seen her at a time when anyone else would have been distraught with anxiety, come quietly in from the set, eat her luncheon calmly and collectedly (for first of all, Lillian believes in keeping fit for her work), then pick up some little book of philosophy and read it steadily until they sent for her."She refuses to believe that there are people in the world who are jealous of her and want to harm her. I remember someone once remarking that a certain person was jealous of her and hated her, and I can still see the look of utter surprise on Lillian's face. But it never made any difference in her treatment of that person. In fact, I doubt whether she remembered it when she met her again."She is intensely loyal to those who have helped her along the path of success. She likes to be alone. She has an inexhaustible fund of patience, and a quiet sense of humor."
Book Synopsis Leading Ladies by : Andrea Cornell Sarvady
Download or read book Leading Ladies written by Andrea Cornell Sarvady and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2006-03-30 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains photographs and profiles that examine the lives and careers of fifty actresses of the studio era who empowered women, each with an annotated list of films, style notes, behind-the-scene facts, trivia, and a list of awards and nominations.
Book Synopsis Life and Lillian Gish (Illustrated Edition) by : Albert Bigelow Paine
Download or read book Life and Lillian Gish (Illustrated Edition) written by Albert Bigelow Paine and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paine (1861-1937) was an American author and biographer best known for his work with Mark Twain. He was a member of the Pulitzer Prize Committee and wrote in several genres including fiction, humour and verse. This book about Lillian Gish (1893-1993), widely recognised as the greatest screen actress of the silent era and also an accomplished stage actress, was first published in 1932 and is illustrated with photographs throughout.
Download or read book Clara Bow written by David Stenn and published by Cooper Square Press. This book was released on 2000-03-13 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hollywood's first sex symbol, the ' It ' girl, Clara Bow was born in the slums of Brooklyn in a family plagued with alcoholism and insanity. She catapulted to fame after winning Motion Picture magazine's 1921 " Fame and Fortune" contest. The greatest box-office draw of her day—she once received 45,000 fan letters in a single month, Clara Bow's on screen vitality and allure that beguiled thousands, however, would be her undoing off-camera. David Stenn captures her legendary rise to stardom and fall from grace, her success marred by studio exploitation and sexual scandals.
Book Synopsis I Begin My Life All Over by : Lillian Faderman
Download or read book I Begin My Life All Over written by Lillian Faderman and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 1999-04-13 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I Begin My Life All Over is an oral history of 36 real-life strangers in a strange land, an intimate study of the immigrant experience in contemporary America.
Book Synopsis D.W. Griffith's the Birth of a Nation by : Melvyn Stokes
Download or read book D.W. Griffith's the Birth of a Nation written by Melvyn Stokes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-01-15 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this deeply researched and vividly written volume, Melvyn Stokes illuminates the origins, production, reception and continuing history of this ground-breaking, aesthetically brilliant, and yet highly controversial movie. By going back to the original archives, particularly the NAACP and D. W. Griffith Papers, Stokes explodes many of the myths surrounding The Birth of a Nation (1915). Yet the story that remains is fascinating: the longest American film of its time, Griffith's film incorporated many new features, including the first full musical score compiled for an American film. It was distributed and advertised by pioneering methods that would quickly become standard. Through the high prices charged for admission and the fact that it was shown, at first, only in "live" theaters with orchestral accompaniment, Birth played a major role in reconfiguring the American movie audience by attracting more middle-class patrons. But if the film was a milestone in the history of cinema, it was also undeniably racist. Stokes shows that the darker side of this classic movie has its origins in the racist ideas of Thomas Dixon, Jr. and Griffith's own Kentuckian background and earlier film career. The book reveals how, as the years went by, the campaign against the film became increasingly successful. In the 1920s, for example, the NAACP exploited the fact that the new Ku Klux Klan, which used Griffith's film as a recruiting and retention tool, was not just anti-black, but also anti-Catholic and anti-Jewish, as a way to mobilize new allies in opposition to the film. This crisply written book sheds light on both the film's racism and the aesthetic brilliance of Griffith's filmmaking. It is a must-read for anyone interested in the cinema.
Download or read book Eleonora Duse written by Helen Sheehy and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2009-02-04 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new biography, the first in two decades, of the legendary actress who inspired Anton Chekhov, popularized Henrik Ibsen, and spurred Stanislavski to create a new theory of acting based on her art and to invoke her name at every rehearsal. Writers loved her and wrote plays for her. She be-friended Rainer Maria Rilke and inspired the young James Joyce, who kept a portrait of her on his desk. Her greatest love, the poet d’Annunzio, made her the heroine of his novel Il fuoco (The Flame). She radically changed the art of acting: in a duel between the past and the future, she vanquished her rival, Sarah Bernhardt. Chekhov said of her, “I’ve never seen anything like it. Looking at Duse, I realized why the Russian theatre is such a bore.” Charlie Chaplin called her “the finest thing I have seen on the stage.” Gloria Swanson and Lillian Gish watched her perform with adoring attention, John Barrymore with awe. Shaw said she “touches you straight on the very heart.” When asked about her acting, Duse responded that, quite simply, it came from life. Except for one short film, Duse’s art has been lost. Despite dozens of books about her, her story is muffled by legend and myth. The sentimental image that prevails is of a misty, tragic heroine victimized by men, by life; an artist of unearthly purity, without ambition. Now Helen Sheehy, author of the much admired biography of Eva Le Gallienne, gives us a different Duse—a woman of strength and resolve, a woman who knew pain but could also inflict it. “Life is hard,” she said, “one must wound or be wounded.” She wanted to reveal on the stage the truth about women’s lives and she wanted her art to endure. Drawing on newly discovered material, including Duse’s own memoir, and unpublished letters and notes, Sheehy brings us to an understanding of the great actress’s unique ways of working: Duse acting out of her sense of her character’s inner life, Duse anticipating the bold aspects of modernism and performing with a sexual freedom that shocked and thrilled audiences. She edited her characters’ lines to bare skeletons, asked for the simplest sets and costumes. Where other actresses used hysterics onstage, Duse used stillness. Sheehy writes about the Duse that the actress herself tried to hide—tracing her life from her childhood as a performing member of a family of actors touring their repertory of drama and commedia dell’arte through Italy. We follow her through her twenties and through the next four decades of commissioning and directing plays, running her own company, and illuminating a series of great roles that included Emile Zola’s Thérèse Raquin, Marguerite in Dumas’s La Dame aux camélias, Nora in Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, and Hedda in his Hedda Gabler. When she thought her beauty was fading at fifty-one, she gave up the stage, only to return to the theatre in her early sixties; she traveled to America and enchanted audiences across the country. She died as she was born—on tour. Sheehy’s illuminating book brings us as close as we have ever been to the woman and the artist.
Book Synopsis Documentary Film Classics by : William Rothman
Download or read book Documentary Film Classics written by William Rothman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-01-28 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of classic documentary film.
