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[Lillian Gish, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing front, in Way down east"]" – Vintage Wall Art

[Lillian Gish, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing front, in Way down east"]", [1920] — historic photograph
[Lillian Gish, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing front, in Way down east"]", [1920]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Lillian Gish appears here in a seated, three-quarter-length pose, which was typical of publicity portraits made during the silent era to promote a film's stars. The image is tied to *Way Down East* (1920), D.W. Griffith's melodrama adapted from Lottie Blair Parker's 1898 stage play, in which Gish played the wronged heroine Anna Moore. The film's dramatic climax, in which Anna is stranded on an ice floe drifting toward a waterfall, became one of the most celebrated sequences of silent cinema. Gish, who worked with Griffith for many years, was among the best-known actresses of her day.

Created / published[1920]
Medium1 photographic. print.
GenreFilm stills 1920.Photographic. prints 1920.
NotesLillian Gish Collection.
SubjectsGish, Lillian,--1893-1993--Performances.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,273 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-181026

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