#Dorothy gish

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St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church on Park Avenue between 50th and 51st Streets, early 1920s. It is the burial site of, among others, Lillian and Dorothy Gish.

Photo: NY Historical Society/Getty Images/NY Daily News

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old hollywood + childhood pictures

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Dorothy and Lillian Gish with actress Helen Ray, their leading lady in Her First False Step (1903)

[davidhudson]

Dorothy Gish, March 11, 1898 – June 4, 1968.

[vintagestagehotties]

Hot Vintage Stage Actress Round 3

Aida Overton Walker: Miss Hannah from Savannah in Sons of Ham (1900 Off-Broadway); Rosetta Lightfoot in In Dahomey (1903 Broadway); Bandanna Land (1912 Broadway)

Dorothy Gish: Fay Hilary in Young Love (1928 Broadway); Helen Storer in Mainly for Lovers (1936 Broadway); Mary Surratt in The Story of Mary Surratt (1947 Broadway)

Propaganda under the cut.

Aida Overton Walker:

As fucking gorgeous as she looks in every picture ever that exists of her, it makes me so so sad that there aren’t any photos of her when she was a drag king in her vaudeville shows, I just know that if I had seen that back in ye olden days my heart would explode 

Dorothy Gish:

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Dorothy Gish, born on March 11, 1898 #botd

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Diane Arbus. Lillian and Dorothy Gish in Central Park, NYC, 1964

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Dorothy Gish cca 1930 - by Nell Dorr (Amon Carter Museum) High Resolution Photo

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Dorothy Gish and Lillian Gish in the silent motion picture "Orphans of the Storm" directed by D.W. Griffith, 1921

Photo: Alfred Cheney Johnston

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Dorothy Gish with flowers in The Streets of New York, or Poverty is No Crime, by Dion Boucicault, opened October 6, 1931 at the 46th St. Theater (now the Richard Rodgers) and closed in December after 87 performances. Fania Marinoff was also in the cast.

Photo: Conde Nast Store

[jeanharlowshair]

Motion Picture Classic, January 1919.

[davidhudson]

Dorothy Gish, March 11, 1898 – June 4, 1968.

[missdreamalot]

Lillian & Dorothy Gish on the set of Orphans of the Storm (1921).

[vintagestagehotties]

Hot Vintage Stage Actress Round 2

Dorothy Gish: Fay Hilary in Young Love (1928 Broadway); Helen Storer in Mainly for Lovers (1936 Broadway); Mary Surratt in The Story of Mary Surratt (1947 Broadway)

Anna Pavlova: Nikiya in La Bayadère (1901 St Petersburg); The Swan in The Dying Swan (1905 St Petersburg); Giselle in Giselle (1906 St Petersburg)

Propaganda under the cut

Dorothy Gish:

Anna Pavlova:

With her pet swan, Jack

Ah, but which of these women was immortalized as a mass produced teddy bear marketed to WASPy parents?

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Dorothy Gish on the boardwalk in Atlantic City with her husband, actor James Rennie. (Year?)

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