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On February 27, 1993, Lillian Gish died peacefully in her sleep in New York City. She was 99 years old. Her remains were placed beside those of her sister, Dorothy Gish, in the Saint Bartholomew's Episcopal Church columbarium, New York City.
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Lillian, Dorothy, and Mrs. Gish worked for several years for this Company, many times each acting in different plays and traveling separate from one another. Lillian would be watched over by other actresses while away from her mother. In 1910, while all were back in New York City, Lillian saw a former childhood friend, Gladys Smith, now an actress named Mary Pickford. Gladys introduced both Dorothy and Lillian to D. W. Griffith and that same day he gave them a screen test and hired them for the silent films he was directing and producing. Some of the more famous films in which Lillian starred and Griffith directed include Birth of a Nation (1915), Way Down East (1920), and Orphans of the Storm (1922). After this last film, Griffith told Lillian he could not pay her what she was worth and that she should go out on her own.
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Gish was born to a Lutheran father and an Episcopalian mother. Her father abandoned the family when she was a child. Gish was a devout Episcopalian. Gish was interred at St. Bartholomew's Church in New York City (source: http://www.lilliangish.com/), the Episcopal church that she attended regularly. Although they share the same last name, screen legend Lillian Gish is not related to Lutheran actress Annabeth Gish.
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Gish continued to work until the late 1980s. In 1978, she appeared in Robert Altman's The Wedding, playing the family's matriarch who dies during a post-nuptial reception. In 1986, she appeared as a crazy mother in Alan Alda's Sweet Liberty. Gish earned an Academy Award nomination for her 105th film role opposite Bette Davis in The Whales of August (1987). In the last decades of her life, Gish was repeatedly honored for her accomplishments. She died of heart failure on February 27, 1993, at her home in New York City.
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