Lillian Gish

All Movies of Lillian Gish

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  Cannes: All Access
  Character: Self (archive footage)

   2007

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  7.0
  The Whales of August
  Summer people in Maine: things are changing. Whales no longer pass close to the shore as they did during the youth of two elderly widowed sisters who have a seaside home where they've summered for 50 years. Libby is blind, contrar...
  Character: Sarah Webber

   1987

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  5.9
  Sweet Liberty
  A history professor's life and peaceful college town are turned upside down when a film company arrives to make a movie out of his best-selling book on the American Revolution.
  Character: Cecelia Burgess

   1985

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  Hollywood: A Celebration of the American Silent Film (TV Miniseries)
  The definitive documentary about the American silent film industry.
   1980

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  6.9
  A Wedding
  Altman returns to the narrative strategy of Nashville, using a massive cast and a complex web of subplots to probe the flaws and fissures in modern America as made evident at a big society wedding marrying old money with new, Ital...
  Character: Nettie Sloan

   1978

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  Warning Shot (TV)
  An officer goes on suspension when he shoots a suspect in self defense and the man's gun vanishes.
   1967

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  6.1
  The Comedians
  Set in the Haiti of "Papa Doc" Duvalier, The Comedians tells the story of a sardonic white hotel owner and his encroaching fatalism as he watches Haiti sink into barbarism. Complications include a friendship with a rebel...
  Character: Mrs. Smith

   1967

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  Breaking Point (TV Series)
  TV Series (1963-1964). 1 season. 30 episodes.
   1963

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  6.8
  The Unforgiven
  The neighbors of a frontier family turn on them when it is suspected that their adopted daughter was stolen from the local Kiowa tribe.
  Character: Mattilda Zachary

   1960

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  6.0
  Orders to Kill
  American agent faces an engrossing moral dilemma when he is parachuted into France to eliminate a suspected traitor in the French Resistance.
  Character: Mrs. Summers

   1958

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  Ford Star Jubilee (TV Series)
  TV Series (1955-1956). 2 seasons. 12 episodes. An anthology series featured major stars, such as Judy Garland, Betty Grable, Orson Welles, Julie Andrews, Lillian Gish, Charles Laughton, Jack Lemmon, Raymond Massey, Lauren Bacall o
   1955

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  6.5
  The Cobweb
  At an exclusive psychiatric clinic, the doctors and staff are about as crazy as the patients. The clinic head, Dr. Stewart McIver, thinks that it would be good therapy for his patients to design and make new drapes for the library...
  Character: Victoria Inch

   1955

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  8.5
  The Night of the Hunter
  A schizophrenic preacher (Robert Mitchum) - possibly the devil himself - relentlessly hunts two small children (Billy Chapin and Sally Jane Bruce) across the Depression-era Bible Belt to get at their dead fathers stolen fortune.
  Character: Rachel Cooper

   1955

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  7.9
  Portrait of Jennie
  Eben Adams is a struggling artist in Depression era New York who has never been able to find inspiration for a painting. One day, after he finally finds someone to buy a painting from him, a young girl named Jennie Appleton appear...
  Character: Mother Mary of Mercy

   1948

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  7.5
  Duel in the Sun
  Orphaned half-breed Pearl Chavez (Jennifer Jones) comes to Spanish Bit, a Ponderosa-like cattle ranch run by despotic McCandless (Lionel Barrymore). There she finds kindness in the heart of ex-Dixie Belle Lillian Gish. But her rom...
  Character: Laura Belle McCanles

   1946

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  6.0
  Commandos Strike at Dawn
  Erik Toresen, widower and fishery observer, leads a quiet life in a small Norwegian town; but after the Nazi occupation, German abuses lead Erik to form a Resistance group. After a killing, Erik flees to the wilderness and finds a...
  Character: Mrs. Bergesen

   1942

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  7.9
  The Scarlet Letter
  In Puritan Boston, seamstress Hester Prynne is punished for playing on the Sabbath day; but kindly minister Arthur Dimmesdale takes pity on her. The two fall in love, but their relationship cannot be: Hester is already married to ...
   1926

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  Romola
   1924

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  8.0
  Orphans of the Storm
  Henriette and Louise, a foundling, are raised together as sisters. When Louise goes blind, Henriette swears to take care of her forever. They go to Paris to see if Louise's blindness can be cured, but are separated when an aristoc...
   1921

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  7.0
  Broken Blossoms
   1919

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  A Romance of Happy Valley
   1919

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  Intolerance
  'Intolerance' tells four tales, all widely separated in time, yet each loosely connected to the others by the title's theme: 'The Babylonian Story', 'The Christ Story', 'The Huguenot Story', and 'The Modern Story'.
   1916

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  Sold for Marriage
  A poor Russian girl's beauty leads her unscrupulous uncle to bring her to the United States. There he is going to sell her into a marriage with a rich old man she has never met. But her lover, an returning immigrant visiting Russi...
   1916

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  5.8
  The Birth of a Nation
  The most successful and artistically advanced film of its time, The Birth of a Nation has also sparked protests, riots, and divisiveness since its first release. The film tells the story of the Civil War and its aftermath, as seen...
   1915

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  The Mothering Heart
   1913

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  The Battle at Elderbush Gulch
   1913