D. W. Griffith
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David Wark Griffith was an American film director. Considered one of the most influential figures in the history of the motion picture, he pioneered many aspects of film editing and expanded the art o
Griffith in 1922
Griffith c. 1907
Left to right: Griffith, cameraman Billy Bitzer (behind Pathé camera), Dorothy Gish (watching from behind Bitzer), Karl Brown (keeping script) and Miriam Cooper (in profile) in a production still for Intolerance (1916)
The first million-dollar partners: Fairbanks, Pickford, Chaplin and Griffith
Lillian Gish
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Lillian Diana Gish was an American actress best known for her work in movies of the silent era. Her film-acting career spanned 75 years, from 1912, in silent film shorts, to 1987. Gish was dubbed the
D. W. Griffith
…and directed his first feature film Judith of Bethulia (1914). Biograph believed that longer features were not viable at this point. According to Lillian Gish, the company thought that "a movie that long would hurt [the audience's] eyes". Griffith left Biograph because of company resistance to his goals and…
Gish in 1921
Dorothy and Lillian Gish with actress Helen Ray, their leading lady in Her First False Step (1903)
Gish with Richard Barthelmess in Broken Blossoms (1919)
Gish as Anna Moore in Way Down East (1920)