Henry de La Falaise, Marquis de La Coudraye, was a French nobleman, translator, film director, film producer, sometime actor, and war hero who was best known for his high-profile marriages to two lead
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
Henry de La Falaise
…Military Service Publishing Company), a memoir of his war experiences. Universally known as "Hank", the marquis was admiringly described by the actress Lillian Gish as "a real war hero. In his bathing-suit he presents a graphic picture of what modern warfare does to a man – he is so cut-and-shot and covered with…
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)