LILLIAN GISH ,THE LEGEND OF FIRST HOLLYWOOD STAR OF CHILD ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
LILLIAN GISH ,THE LEGEND OF FIRST HOLLYWOOD STAR OF CHILD ARTIST BIOGRAPHY The Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress Summer-Fall 1980: Vol 37 Iss 3-4 Lillian Gish Lillian Gish’s acting career has spanned more than seventy years and includes over ninety films, numerous stage plays, and radio and television appearances. Born on October 14, 1896, in Springfield, Ohio, she began acting at the age of five years in Rising Sun, Ohio, in a traveling stage company melodrama. Her mother and her younger sister, Dorothy, also turned to acting with various touring companies, and thus the family supported itself. In 1912, through an introduction to D. W. Griffith by their friend Mary Pickford at the Biograph Company studios at 11 East Fourteenth Street in New York, Lillian and Dorothy were launched on film careers. They quickly became regular performers for the Biograph Company under D. W. Griffith’s direction. “A Good Little Devil” – Lillian Gish (first from the left) Lillian Gis...