Lillian Gish was born on October 14, 1893 in Springfield, United States, the son of a family-defying alcoholic and a stage actress to a mother. She and her sister Dorothy Gisch run away and make a living acting. Lillian Gisch has had extensive experience on stage since childhood.
In 1912, Lillian Gisch met the first director in her life, David Griffiths, when the director valued Lillian Gisch, when she had a unique temperament, became a very important actor under the director David, the actor at that time did not receive professional acting training, so the performance was in a crude and exaggerated state. At that time, the company conducted systematic professional training for Lilian Gich, and then Lilian Gish starred in "The Birth of a Nation" and many films adapted from literature, such as "Saving the Country", "The Wind".
When filming "Bohemian Girl", in order to interpret the scene of the heroine who was seriously ill and dying, she actually went on a hunger strike for three days, and even before filming, she sucked up saliva with cotton, making herself haggard and weak. When the scene of the protagonist's death was filmed, Lilian actually fainted. The director panicked, suspecting that she was really dead, because she had stopped breathing, and it seemed that her soul had also gone with the wind...
In the process of acting, Lillian began to gradually find the skill of acting, in "Tears of The Flowers" she played a poor little daughter, and her life situation is very similar, after the thirties, she made a cameo appearance in "Duel in the Sun" with this film, she won the Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Lillian Gisch's birthday is a little earlier than the birth of the movie, and she is the first sweetheart in the United States, known as the "first lady on screen". His acting career spanned three-quarters of a century and he is a witness to the history of American cinema. She was named 17th "Greatest Actress in a Hundred Years" by the American Film Institute.
Lillian's private life was as pure as her appearance. When she left Griffiths and came to MGM, her acting skills became more skilled. However, MGM wants to make more gimmicks to maximize profit on Lilian. And Lilian's life is flawless, in addition to her beloved film career, she has not even talked about love, and it is really impossible to start if you want to hype. Never married, she once wrote a passage in her autobiography: dedicated to my mother, she gave me love; dedicated to my sister, she taught me to laugh; dedicated to my father, who gave me insecurities; dedicated to Griffith, who taught me that work is more interesting than play.