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Film Star Postcards - IMPORTED FROM THE USA: LILLIAN GISH
American actress Lillian Gish
(1893-1993) was 'The First Lady of the Silent Screen'. During the 1910s, she
was one of director D.W. Griffith's greatest stars. She appeared in his
features such as The Birth of a Nation (1915), Broken Blossoms
(1919), and Orphans of the Storm (1921). After 13 years with Griffith,
she moved to MGM where her first picture was La Bohème (King Vidor,
1926). In the 1940s, after a long interval, she returned to the screen in a
handful of films and received a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for
her role as Laura Belle McCanles in Duel in the Sun (King Vidor, 1946).
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