Bowling Green State University has removed actress Lillian Gish’s name from a campus theater because of her part in D.W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation. Gish starred in the 1915 silent film, which was ...

Bowling Green State University in Ohio says it will not reconsider its decision to remove the late actress Lillian Gish’s name from a theater there because she appeared in the controversial film The ...

WILTON — The Town Hall Theatre is delighted to announce a special screening of the timeless classic silent film, ‘The Wind,’ starring the legendary Lillian Gish. This remarkable cinematic experience ...

The college censorship debate has reached Hollywood. More than 50 prominent artists, writers, and film scholars are supporting the restoration of the names of the Gish sisters, Dorothy and Lillian, to ...

Lillian and Dorothy Gish, sisters who came to fame in the early age of the silver screen, have roots in the Miami Valley. Lillian was born in Springfield on Oct. 14, 1893, to James Leigh Gish and Mary ...

Bowling Green State University is removing from its theater the name of an actress tied to a century old movie now considered synonymous with racism. Its success is credited with helping popularize ...

On May 3, the Board of Trustees of Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio voted 7-0 to remove the name of actress Lillian Gish (1893-1993) from the university’s film theater because of ...

She was never as popular with audiences as her friend Mary Pickford, but Lilllian Gish was the darling of New York intellectuals who otherwise disdained the crude sentimentalism of early silent ...

Los Angeles Philharmonic conductor Gustavo Dudamel is adding another notable achievement to his already long list: He will receive the Dorothy and Lillian Gish prize for his work in the arts at a ...

Ava DuVernay has been selected to receive the 27th annual Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize in honor of her ongoing efforts to amplify the voices of women and people of color through her film and TV work ...