Reminiscences of Lillian Gish, 1978.

Biographical Note

Actress, director

Scope and Contents

Family 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

Subjects

• Actresses--Interviews.
• Daum, Raymond L., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Gish, Lillian, 1893-1993--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Motion picture acting.
• Motion picture industry.
• Motion pictures and music.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Silent films.
• Theater--Vocational guidance.