Lillian Gish publicity photo La Boheme 1926-2008
by David Lee Guss
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Lillian Gish publicity photo La Boheme 1926-2008
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David Lee Guss
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Photograph - Photography
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"La Boheme is a 1926 American silent drama film directed by King Vidor, based on the opera La Boheme by Giacomo Puccini. Lillian Gish and John Gilbert star as ill-fated lovers.
Gish had just returned from a visit to Europe and wanted to especially reach out to her European fans. Making a film which takes place in Paris seemed be a good way to do this. After seeing an uncut version of The Big Parade, she decided that John Gilbert and Renee Adoree were most suited as her co-stars.
When she first arrived at the studio for filming, Gish was treated as 'a queen'. Co-stars said she was acting very arrogant, with Marion Davies saying that Gish brushed off Gilbert and did not want to give director King Vidor a hand.
According to Robert Osborne, host of Turner Classic Movies, Gish prepared for the death scene by not drinking or eating for three days. When Vidor saw her condition, he worried that it might be Gish's death scene as well as Mimi's. She also learned how to breathe without visible movement and visited hospitals to learn about stages of tuberculosis."
My mother, Mary Ann, worked in a tuberculosis sanatarium in northern Minnesota in the 1930's. The treatment then was to wrap the patients in wet sheets. T.B. has been largely eradicated today in the U.S.
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