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Article: 'Dear Miss Gish': a friendship in letters; When I learned from her autobiography that actress Lillian Gish cherished and answered all her fan mail, I saw that as an invitation.(THE HOME FORUM)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- March 25, 2005
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Byline: James Patterson
I saw my first Lillian Gish movie in 1970 when I was in high school. The 1920 film "Way Down East" was screened at our community theater in Fairfax, Ala., a small town on the banks of the mighty Chattahoochee River. I became interested in Miss Gish, and I wanted to learn more about her.
Shortly after seeing that movie, I read Miss Gish's autobiography, "The Movies, Mr. Griffith, and Me." She was born in Springfield, Ohio, in 1893. Lillian and her sister Dorothy began stage acting as young children. The Gish sisters began making silent movies in 1912. They each earned $5 a day for 12-hour days.
Miss Gish's life as a movie ...