Called "the first lady of the silent screen," Lillian Gish was the archetypal silent film heroine — the delicate damsel in distress, stranded on a swift-moving ice floe, cowering before a ...

Lillian Gish got her start in the silent era of movie-making. Most of the actresses who rose to prominence during Hollywood’s Golden Age did so as silent film stars were phased out. Gish ...

Neither Jean-Paul Belmondo nor Marcello Mastroianni ever directed a movie; so far ... and a 1984 documentary about silent-screen star Lillian Gish. All three are presented in restored versions ...