Mary Gish
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Mary Robinson Gish was an American actress and the mother of screen stars Lillian and Dorothy Gish. She performed on stage as Mae Barnard.
Gish with her daughters Dorothy (left) and Lillian in 1900s
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