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Lillian Gish: La Boheme
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The collection includes letters from the French director Abel Gance in 1926, asking Gish to play Joan of Arc. In a lengthy telegram in April 1925, Mary Pickford tries to persuade Gish to join the United Artists studio, arguing that she would be treated as an artist and not asked to turn out too many films. A year later, Pickford writes to apologize for an interview in Movie Weekly in which it appeared that she was trying to make herself seem younger than Gish.
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Gish's last film role was in 1987, in The Whales of August, at the age of 93. Her final professional appearance was a cameo on the 1988 all-star studio recording of Jerome Kern's Show Boat.
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In 1915, Lillian starred as Elsie Stoneman in Griffith's most ambitious project to date, THE BIRTH OF A NATION. She wasn't making a large number of films that she had in the beginning, because she was successful and popular enough to be able to pick and choose the right films to appear in. The following year, Lillian appeared in another Griffith classic, INTOLERANCE.
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