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Article: Film's first lady looks back // Lillian Gish sees actors go from outcasts to upper class
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- October 25, 1987
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"The First Lady of the Silent Screen," a veteran of more than
100 films and the author of The Movies, Mr. Griffith and Me (1969),
Lillian Gish has captured and retained the affection of a worldwide
public. Her career spans the history of film industry, from D. W.
Griffith's "An Unseen Enemy" (1912) to "The Whales of August,"
scheduled to open Nov. 13 in Chicago, after its local premiere Friday
at the Chicago International Film Festival.
Gregory Speck: In your childhood, actors and actresses were
almost the "untouchables," outcasts at the bottom rung of society's
ladder. Today, they seem to occupy the highest levels in society,
exercising enormous influence and, in one extreme and ...