Lillian
Gish
1893-1993
Lillian Gish was one of Hollywood's first movie stars. She
played the female lead in D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation,
a 1917 film often called the first feature length movie, equally
praised for pioneering filmaking techniques, and reviled for
undermining race relations and boosting the membership of the Ku Klux
Klan.
Much later, she played the
tough old lady who saved the children and defeated the villain
in 1955's The Night of the Hunter.
