Film homage D.W. Griffith Broken Blossoms 1919 Tucson Arizona 1970-2008
by David Lee Guss
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Film homage D.W. Griffith Broken Blossoms 1919 Tucson Arizona 1970-2008
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David Lee Guss
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D.W. Griffith (1875-1948) is rightly called the "Father of the American Film." His box office triumph "The Birth of A Nation" ushered in the era of colossal film palaces.
From 1908 to 1931 he directed 535 films. But his late Victorian world view became increasingly dated in the "Roaring Twenties."
Lillian Gish (1884-1993) plays a young girl, not that much older than the child in my photo, in Griffith's intimate drama "Broken Blossoms" (1919).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=06m6aqHwUiw&feature=related
She is savagely beaten by her boxer father after hiding in a closet. Earlier he had forced her to put a smile on her face, a gesture she repeats, clutching her doll, at the end of her life.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q516Ajza-DM&NR=1
Gish worked for Griffith from 1912 to 1921's "Orphans of The Storm," in which she co-starred with sister Dorothy (1896-1968). After a couple of independent films, both co-staring Ronald Coleman (1898-1958) and directed by Henry King (1886-1882), she signed with the newly formed MGM, with much creative control over the projects.
Her last for them was "The Wind"(1928); which she introduces.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReqaIdfFu2w
Gish was a strong advocate of film preservation. She convinced Mary Pickford to preserve her own films as "Little Mary" was thoroughly sick of her little girl image and thought her films outdated antiques which should be destroyed.
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