#Lillian Gish

[eyesfullofmoon]

Pages from Cecil Beaton's scrapbook(s).

#1930s #1940s #1950s #* #art #greta garbo #marlene dietrich #joan crawford #anna sten #lillian gish #katharine hepburn #peter lorre #fred astaire #mae west #sophia loren #grace kelly #gloria swanson #cecil beaton #old hollywood

[inthedarktrees]

Lillian Gish as "Letty” in The Wind, 1927

#lillian gish #1920s #old hollywood #silent era #classic movies #the wind 1927 #vintage #silent film #silent movies #golden age of hollywood #vintage fashion #1920s fashion #black and white #photography #photo restoration #horror

[uspiria]

The Wind (1928) dir. Victor Sjöström

#the wind #the wind 1928 #victor sjostrom #lillian gish #filmedit #1920s #caps #* #*thewind

[thesoundofsilents]

Lillian Gish for “The Wind”, 1928

#lillian gish #the wind #1920s #silent film #old hollywood #i’m back!!

[adrian-paul-botta]

Lillian Gish - Camille - Vanity Fair July 1932

#lillian gish #camille #1932 #vanity fair

[rosepompadour]

LILLIAN GISH in WAY DOWN EAST (1920) She is an expensive doll made of the best-quality porcelain. She, more than anyone, should have been painted by Ambrose McEvoy, for though she is an ethereal waif, there is great strength and firmness beneath her extreme fragility. She is a magnificent actress in spite of her frail delicacy, and we are amazed that this heavenly-looking wraith is made of flesh and blood and is capable of acting, and of great acting. - Cecil Beaton

#lillian my beloved #way down east #lillian gish #the silver screen #filmedit #*

[hotvintagepoll]

Propaganda

Alice Roberts (Pandora's Box)—I dunno if she was a star per se but she did this groundbreaking lesbian role in a very groundbreaking 1920 movie and she won my heart while doing so. And his 1920's butch style is on pointtt

Lillian Gish (The Wind, Broken Blossoms)—Known as "The First Lady of American Cinema," Lillian Gish was an Academy Award nominated actress that actually began her career as a child actor onstage in theater plays. She was a prominent actress during the silent film era and her ethereal beauty made her one of the most popular actresses of the time/ She was a favorite leading lady of famous director D.W. Griffith, starring in several of his films, including the controversial Birth of a Nation. She was known to go to extremes in preparing for roles, such as sustaining permanent nerve damage in her fingers on one hand after filming a scene in Way Down East where she fainted on an ice floe and kept her hand partially submerged in the frigid water. Her screams during the famous closet scene of Broken Blossoms were supposedly so realistic and horrific that tale has it that bystanders outside the studio had to be stopped from rushing in to help. She is listed on AFI's list of the greatest female stars of classic American Cinema and was awarded several honors during her career.

This is round 1 of the tournament. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage woman.

3/3/2024 EDIT: there has been a lot of discussion on this poll that I'm currently examining. Please read the propaganda carefully and weigh your options before voting.

[additional propaganda submitted under the cut.]

Lillian Gish propaganda:

"I love her just. So so much."

"Was in (arguably) the first movie ever and yeah it was a crap movie but still. Also watch her in Broken Blossoms, man can she ACT (and if an actress is good at her craft it does in fact make me more horny for her)"

"she's literally everything to me i'm not even kidding. quite LITERALLY called the First Lady of American Cinema, she was a damn pioneer of silent movies and acting. she wrote! she directed! she is exactly what i think a fairy would look like actually. she slayed in The Wind. i mean. look at Her"

#lillian gish #alice roberts #[editor's note: i would call birth of a nation more than controversial. i would not consider it a career highlight.] #hotvintagepoll #fuck that old woman #ladies 1

[manderley]

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐢𝐧𝐝 (𝟏𝟗𝟐𝟖)

#the wind #moviegifs #filmgifs #dailyflicks #fyeahmovies #classicfilmsource #classicfilmcentral #movie edit #film edit #movieedit #filmedit #lillian gish #victor sjöström #lars hanson #movies #film #mine

[cry-bastion]

ROBERT MITCHUM as REVEREND HARRY POWELL in The Night of the Hunter (1955), dir. Charles Laughton

#the night of the hunter #robert mitchum #harry powell #charles laughton #50s #film #old hollywood #i think his turn as Cady was better #but this was an intriguing film #also i know he's an insane killer but some of his scenes with the girl were kinda adorable lol #worst stepfather ever but awww #sally jane bruce #billy chapin #shelley winters #lillian gish

[citizenscreen]

Lillian Gish, Edith Bouvier Beale (aka Little Edie Beale), and Anita Loos in New York City’s Russian Tea Room on March 29, 1976.

#lillian gish #little edie #anita loos #1970s

[mudwerks]

(via The Night of the Hunter (1955) - all things amazing —)

#The Night of the Hunter #film #vintage #1955 #robert mitchum #shelley winters #lillian gish

[inthedarktrees]

Lillian Gish in The Wind, 1928

#silent film #lillian gish #1920s #old hollywood #silent era #the wind 1928 #golden age of hollywood #classic movies #photography #production still #black and white #vintage

[uspiria]

The Wind (1928) dir. Victor Sjöström

#the wind #the wind 1928 #victor sjostrom #lillian gish #filmedit #1920s #caps #* #*thewind

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Lillian Gish and John Gielgud in Hamlet, which opened at the Empire Theater on October 8, 1936, and ran until January 30, 1937.

Lillian was superb in that role [Ophelia]. Lillian was, in that instance, very much like a dollop of mercury: you could bend or caress or throw her anything, toward anything, and she would automatically conform to that situation or mood. Her understanding of the mental instability of Ophelia was acute: her body language; her tremulous speech—one was aware of the tightrope on which she was walking. Judith [Anderson] was far more experienced in classical theatre. Her mind was a repository of scholarly research. She really knew her Shakespeare. However, she realized that there was nothing quite like Lillian. Call it star power; call it an intuitive understanding of a role; call it alchemy. I don't know. I really don't. But it was magical.

     —John Gielgud

Photo: Florence Vandamm via MCNY

#vintage New York #1930s #Florence Vandamm #Hamlet #Lillian Gish #John Gielgud #Judith Anderson #vintage Broadway #theater #acting #Shakespeare #vintage NYC

[adrian-paul-botta]

Lillian Gish ''Why I've Never Married'' Sunday World Herald - Omaha NB January 16, 1938

#lillian gish #press photo #1938 #Sunday World Herald

[rosepompadour]

"I've never been in style, so I can't go out of style." LILLIAN GISH, 1982

#silents are golden #except for the birth of a nation #i had to watch it in film school otherwise i could have gladly avoided it for the rest of my life #lillian gish #no tag for the movie #the silver screen #*