A later birth date also helped when Pickford introduced her in 1912 to D.W. Griffith ... s “generous art” had never changed: Lillian Gish “taught audiences to hear the words she never ...

There were no stunt men and Lillian Gish risked her life ... I watched quietly as Gish, whose film career began in 1912, acted in what would be her last film, about elderly sisters, her and ...