Columbia Center for Oral History Portal > Reminiscences of Lillian Gish, 1978
Creator: | Gish, Lillian, 1893-1993 | Project: | Individual interviews oral history collection. (see all project interviews) | Phys. Desc. : | transcript: 38 pages sound file : digital preservation master, WAV files (96 kHz, 24 bit) | Location: | Columbia Center for Oral History | Full CLIO record >> |
Biographical NoteActress, director
Scope and ContentsFamily background; childhood and early life in theater; career in films: silent era, development of interest in technical aspects and design, early association with Biograph Company and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, work with sister, Dorothy Gish; lecture tours: Soviet Union, 1969, American universities; film medium: acting techniques, as universal language and art, musical scoring, adaptation of opera to film; recollections of D.W. Griffith, Greta Garbo
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