Gish was a key figure, acting in numerous classics from the silent era and into the 1980s. For members of the Black Student Union at Bowling Green State University, in Ohio, Gish is a pariah.

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 ...

Lillian Gish began her acting career in a small town in Ohio 25 miles from Bowling Green in 1902. The campaign to remove the Gish name was initiated by Bowling Green’s Black Student Union in ...

When Lillian Gish died Feb. 28 in her New York apartment, seven months short of her 100th birthday, the movies lost their last and most vital link to their beginnings-an actress who was present ...

Lillian Gish and Angela Lansbury attend the Theatre Hall Of Fame Awards held on March 28, 1982 at the Uris Theater, now called the Gershwin Theater, New York City. Date: 2019-01-21 ...

Lillian Gish matures in her later Biograph shorts, branching out to play both seductresses and saintly mothers. Program 80 min. Silent, with musical accompaniment by Stuart Oderman. Just Gold.

Lillian Gish has been receiving ovations like that for seven decades. It`s a triumph of her acting skill that she makes you think she`s experiencing it for the first time. Either that or–what`s ...

NEW YORK — Lillian Gish, the last of the great silent film stars, who went on to perform for more than 85 years in movies, theater and television, died in her sleep Saturday evening at her New ...

Lillian Gish: Her Legend, Her Life 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 ...

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 ...