Bowling Green State University has removed actress Lillian Gish’s name from a campus theater because of her part in D.W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation. Gish starred in the 1915 silent film, which was ...

French filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier is one of the most admirable figures in cinema over the past 45 years. In 2003, we wrote that Tavernier belonged to a select group of contemporary directors whose ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. The film Birth of a Nation has been studied for years for its introduction of film techniques that ...

The college censorship debate has reached Hollywood. More than 50 prominent artists, writers, and film scholars are supporting the restoration of the names of the Gish sisters, Dorothy and Lillian, to ...

More than 50 prominent artists, writers, and film scholars are calling for the restoration of actresses Lillian and Dorothy Gish’s names to a theater established in their honor 43 years ago at Bowling ...

She was never as popular with audiences as her friend Mary Pickford, but Lilllian Gish was the darling of New York intellectuals who otherwise disdained the crude sentimentalism of early silent ...

Bowling Green State University in Ohio says it will not reconsider its decision to remove the late actress Lillian Gish’s name from a theater there because she appeared in the controversial film The ...

Silent screen actress Lillian Gish died 30 years ago. She was just shy of her 100 th birthday. This year marks significant milestones in her long career. Though born in Springfield in 1893, Massillon ...

Bowling Green State University has removed actress Lillian Gish’s name from a campus theater because of her part in D.W. Griffith‘s Birth of a Nation. Gish starred in the 1915 silent film, which was ...