Lillian Gish

Her Legend, Her Life

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by Charles Affron

University of California Press

Due/Published March 2002, 445 pages, paper

ISBN 0520234340

New in paper (S02)

At the time of her death in 1993, Lillian Gish was universally recognized as a film legend. In this revealing and absorbing narrative, Charles Affron uses newly released documents to uncover a life that was cast in the shadow of self-generated myth. Filling the gaps left by Gish's selective memoirs and authorized biographies, he shows how the actress carefully shaped her public identity while keeping much of her life private.