![]() The girls would also play sisters in The Lady and the Mouse (1913) and Orphans of the Storm (1922). Griffith directed Lillian and Dorothy in their first film, the melodrama An Unseen Enemy (1912, 17-minute running time). Lillian was 19 in 1912 when she won a contract with Biograph but told the casting directors that she was 16. ![]() Soon, Gladys changed her name to Mary Pickford and introduced Lillian to her boss at Biograph Studios, D. After the store was lost in a fire, the Gish girls moved to New York and Lillian was befriended by her next-door neighbor, a child actress named Gladys Smith. The girls worked in a candy store which their mother had opened in East St, Louis, Illinois, next to the old Majestic Theater (240 Collinsville Ave). Their mother sent Lillian to visit her father and although they had reconciled to a degree, she missed her sister and returned to Ohio. While living with their Aunt Emily in Massillon, Ohio, in 1910, the girls got word that their father was gravely ill in Oklahoma. To keep food on the table and a roof over her daughters' heads, Mama Gish took to acting, and as soon as the girls were old enough, they joined their mother in local productions. ![]() Gish was a drunkard who could most kindly be described as an 'absentee parent'. Lillian was born in 1893, in Springfield, Ohio, five years before welcoming her little sister, Dorothy. What made Lillian Gish special was her almost unhealthy dedication to giving the audience the best performance possible. However, as we have pointed out several times, the Motion Picture Industry has a surplus of beautiful girls. ![]() Gish possessed an incredibly ethereal beauty that the camera loved and she was a favorite of screen pioneer D.W. The notion that Lillian Gish would be tagged as "the First Lady of American Cinema" is hardly surprising. ![]()
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