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Article: The Ohio roots of Dorothy and Lillian Gish.
- Article from:
- Journal of Popular Film & Television
- Article date:
- June 22, 1994
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The only theater named to commemorate the filmwork of Dorothy and Lillian Gish is at Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio. This is an appropriate place for such a theater, for these two actresses were the children of Ohioans Mary Robinson McConnell and James Leigh Gish. Lillian was born on 14 October 1893 in Springfield, but her parents soon moved to Dayton, where Dorothy was born on 11 March 1898.
Lillian records in her autobiography The Movies, Mr. Griffith, and Me that the family moved from Ohio soon after Dorothy's birth. Settling in Baltimore, Maryland, James Gish "went into partnership with a Mr. Edward Meixner . . . in the candy business." Two ...