Way Down East
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Way Down East is a 1920 American silent melodrama film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Lillian Gish. It is one of four film adaptations of the 19th century play of the same name by Lottie Blai
Theatrical release poster
Billy Bitzer (behind Pathé camera) with Griffith on location
Gish in famous ice-floe scene
Scene with Barthelmess and Gish
Richard Barthelmess
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Richard Semler Barthelmess was an American film actor, principally of the Hollywood silent era. He starred opposite Lillian Gish in D. W. Griffith's Broken Blossoms and Way Down East and was among the
Way Down East
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Barthelmess in 1934
With Lillian Gish in the 1920 release Way Down East
Silverscreen magazine, 1922
Collage of various characters portrayed by Barthelmess, 1920