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Hats and Coats

1920s ~ 1980s

Clara Bow In Call Her Savage (1932). Costumes Designed By David Cox And Rita Kaufman.

Gene Tierney wearing a coordinating hat and coat; 1945 

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Brigitte Bardot, 1963

Diana Ross Hat & Coat costume for Mahogany Movie 1975

Princess Diana in Hamburg 1987 wearing a coat designed by Arabella Pollen and a faux fur beret style hat

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Congratulations to the actresses who made it to Round 2!

Round 2 will begin on Saturday, May 4th

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Susanna Foster

Trixie Friganza

Jane Froman

Eva Gabor

Zsa Zsa Gabor

Mary Garden

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Dorothy Gish

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Princess Diana meeting Lillian Gish at the Cannes Film Festival.

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International Women's Day

Lillian Gish

Lillian Diana Gish was an American actress, director, and screenwriter. Her film-acting career spanned 75 years, from 1912, in silent film shorts, to 1987. Gish was called the "First Lady of American Cinema", and is credited with pioneering fundamental film performance techniques

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Dorothy gish

DOROTHY GISH MOVIE

DOROTHY GISH FULL

DOROTHY GISH FREE

These included The Magnificent Yankee (1946), and The Cardinal (1963). Her mother went into acting to support Gish and her little sister, Dorothy. Born on 14 October 1893 in Springfield, Ohio, her father was an alcoholic who soon abandoned the family. Although Gish acted in well over 100 movies, she only made five after 1930. Gish’s childhood was less than Hollywood magic. When television came out, Dorothy Gish took advantage and appeared on different shows. Both companies toured extensively through the U.S. Lillian took the lead role with one company Gish took the same lead role with a second company. In 1939, Gish and her sister saw a production in New York called Life with Father. She starred in a production of Young Love in New York, followed by a production in London, both of which met with resounding success. EXTRA 20 OFF 3+ ITEMS See all eligible items and terms. When movies turned from silent to talking, Dorothy Gish made one in 1930 called Wolves, but she then took a break from filming and returned to the stage. BILL EDWARDS + DIANA LYNN + DOROTHY GISH + GAIL RUSSELL 1944 ORIGINAL Photo 239.

DOROTHY GISH FULL

While her sister took on “tragic” roles, Gish went full steam ahead with her comedy roles, and the public loved her. Her character was the film’s highlight, and she became an instant success as a star in comedy movies. She had a comedy role, and at last, she found her niche. In 1918, Gish starred in Hearts of the World. She went on to do at least 12 other films that year.

DOROTHY GISH MOVIE

Dorothy Gish’s debut movie was An Unseen Enemy in 1912. They began acting work for Biograph Studios. “We had this Blackness of thought and culture and ways of being that we didn’t have to articulate,” she said.Around 1910, a childhood friend of the sisters, Mary Pickford, introduced them to a director by the name of D. They were married in 1920 in a double ceremony with actress Constance Talmadge and businessman John Pialoglou. She challenged stereotypes in “ Anarchy, Wild Woman and Dinah,” where performers ate fried chicken and watermelon, and asked dancers to put the fight and rebellion in their hips in “ Batty Moves.” Dorothy was married to James Rennie, a Canadian-born actor who was her co-star in Remodeling Her Husband (filmed in 1920, it was directed by Dorothy's older sister, Lillian, in her only directorial outing). Gish grew up in New York City and made her stage debut at age four. Zollar did not want to erase individuality, she said, but heighten it through the use of sound and full body movements. 'It is my desire that the prize be awarded to a man or woman who has made an outstanding contribution to the beauty of the world and to mankinds enjoyment and understanding of life. Dorothy Gish, in full Dorothy Elizabeth Gish, (born March 11, 1898, Massillon, Ohio, U.S.died June 4, 1968, Rapallo, Italy), American actress who, like her sister Lillian, was a major figure in silent films, particularly director D.W. “I’m not waving a banner saying, ‘Here, this is what you’re seeing onstage,’ but people were clearly experiencing a company having deep analysis of systemic oppression, of racism, of sexism,” she said.Ī majority of Zollar’s founding members grew up in de facto segregated cities, where they communicated their racialized life experiences onstage. Nodes from present and former decades have left traces in her work.

DOROTHY GISH FREE

As a 1970s college student, Zollar said, she involved herself with the feminist, anti-Vietnam War, free love and Black power movements. Zollar founded Urban Bush Women, an ensemble that explores Black identity and systemic oppression through movement, in 1984. “Aesthetically, she has been a trailblazer,” Takeda added.

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This Day in Buster… January 7, 1921

Sid Grauman, at Grauman’s Million Dollar Theater, offers $100 to the person who correctly names the actor or actress to be married in 30 days. Buster Keaton and Natalie Talmadge make the list… can you work out if there was a winner to be had?

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“It’s not the sort of thing they want the royals connected with,” Noble explained.

“What will they be seeing?”

“ The Whales of August. Lillian Gish and Bette Davis. Most eminently respectable.

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Happy Birthday Lillian Diana de Guiche ⚜️

* 14 October 1893 ♰ 27 February 1993

“I never approved of talkies. Silent movies were well on their way to developing an entirely new art form. It was not just pantomine, but something wonderfully expressive.”

photos: Lillian Gish plays the real-life Scottish heroine of the film ‘Annie Laurie’, directed by John S. Robertson in 1926.

She was called "The First Lady of American Cinema", and is credited with pioneering fundamental film performance techniques.

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Lillian Diana Gish (October 14, 1893 – February 27, 1993) was an American actress, director and screenwriter. Her film acting career spanned 75 years, from 1912, in silent film shorts, to 1987. Gish was called "The First Lady of American Cinema", and is credited with pioneering fundamental film performance techniques.

Gish was a prominent film star from 1912 into the 1920s, being particularly associated with the films of director D. W. Griffith. This included her leading role in the highest-grossing film of the silent era, Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1915). At the dawn of the sound era, she returned to the stage and appeared in film infrequently, including well-known roles in the western Duel in the Sun (1946) and the thriller The Night of the Hunter (1955).

She also did considerable television work from the early 1950s into the 1980s, and closed her career playing opposite Bette Davis in the 1987 film The Whales of August. During her later years, Gish became a dedicated advocate for the appreciation and preservation of silent film. Despite being better known for her film work, she was also accomplished on stage, and was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1972.

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OF THEE I SING

1931

Of Thee I Sing is a musical by George Gershwin, lyrics by Ira Gershwin and a book by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind. 

In 1932, Of Thee I Sing was the first musical to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

The story concerns John P. Wintergreen, who runs for President of the United States on the "love" platform. When he falls in love with the sensible Mary Turner instead of Diana Devereaux, the beautiful pageant winner selected for him in Atlantic City, he gets into political hot water.

The musical is set in and around New York, Washington DC, and Atlantic City. 

Early in 1931, the press reported that the show would be a satiric revue and arrive sometime in April. By March 1931, it was a musical comedy due ‘next season’. 

In November, the cast shifted. Warner Bros. dropped Dell’s option in 1931 (along with most of its other musical stars), and Claudia (having become associated with musicals) was relegated to Poverty Row productions. She was replaced by June O’Dea. 

The first public performance was at the Majestic in Boston on December 7, 1931. Those who attended the star-studded opening night at the Music Box Theatre, included: Ina Claire, Ethel Barrymore, John Drew Colt, Beatrice Lillie, Florenz Ziegfeld, George White, Mayor James J. Walker, Dorothy Parker, Howard Dietz, Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Zeppo Marx, Lillian Gish, Oscar Levant, Grantland Rice, Irene Bordoni, George Jean Nathan, Robert Benchley, Judith Anderson, Mark Hellinger, and Sam H. Harris.

Among its satiric targets is the Miss America Pageant, held in Atlantic City since 1921. On the Boardwalk in Atlantic City, bathing beauties from every state vie for the title of ‘Miss White House’. 

We're in Atlantic City To meet with the committee. And when they've made their mind up The winner will be signed up. The prize is consequential - Presidential!

Interestingly, from 1928 to 1932, there was no Miss America pageant. It was temporarily shut down due to financial problems associated with the Great Depression and suggestions that it promoted "loose morals."

Gershwin was no stranger to Atlantic City. He traveled to the seaside resort during the 1916 as a song plugger, selling new sheet music. 

A postcard that George Gershwin sent from Atlantic City in 1918was sold for  $3,000 in the hope of extracting his DNA from the stamp Gershwin presumably licked. The goal was to prove parentage. 

Just before Of Thee I Sing, book writer Morrie Ryskind had also penned the 1931 musical The Gang’s All Here, which also took place in Atlantic City. Ryskind and Kaufman had assembled 1925′s The Coconuts on the Boardwalk. Kaufman famously tackled June Moon in Atlantic City. Just prior to Of Thee I Sing, Kaufman had guided Moss Hart’s Once In A Lifetime through one of the rockiest out-of-town tryouts in the history of the Great Wooden Way. 

The original Broadway production, directed by Kaufman, opened at the Music Box Theatre on Boxing Day 1931 and ran for 441 performances, gaining critical and box office success. 

It has been revived twice on Broadway and in concert stagings in the U.S. and in London. Regional productions were also common, such as at Paper Mill Playhouse (above). Although quite a distance from Atlantic City, Paper Mill was at least located in New Jersey. Here the designer capitalizes on the real-life floats that Miss America contestants rode on in parades down the Boardwalk. 

There are also a number of college and university productions, such as this one in Illinois. This designer reinforced the Atlantic City location with signage including Steel Pier and Fralinger’s Taffy. 

Opera companies have sometimes adopted the show into their repertory, as this production in Toronto. 

A CBS television version (with laugh track) was produced in 1972 starring Carroll O'Connor as President Wintergreen with Cloris Leachman as Mary. The design of the Atlantic City scene was somewhat less specific, taking place on the beach, with references to such seashore fare as Skee-Ball and Salt Water Taffy. 

A National Radio Theater version starring John Cullum was broadcast by NPR in 1984 and the BBC in 1984 and 1992. 

A musical sequel to Of Thee I Sing was written by the same team, entitled Let 'Em Eat Cake, and was produced on Broadway in 1933. It reused some of the music from Of Thee I Sing. However, it was a critical and box office failure. It was the Gershwins’ last musical comedy. 

Season 5 of HBO's “Boardwalk Empire” takes place in 1931 and shows the Boardwalk outside the Ritz-Carlton Hotel with a theatre playing the musical Of Thee I Sing. As previously noted, the show did not try out in AC, although it is set there. The Old Rumpus burlesque house was fictional but based on many such establishments found along the Boardwalk.

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LILLIAN GISH 🌹

Lillian Diana Gish was born on October 14, 1893, in Springfield, Ohio. Her father, James Lee Gish, was an alcoholic who caroused around, was rarely at home and left the family to more or less fend for themselves. To help make ends meet, Lillian, her sister Dorothy Gish and their mother, Mary Gish a.k.a. Mary Robinson McConnell, tried their hand at acting in local productions. Lillian was all of six years old when she first appeared in front of an audience. For the next 13 years, she and Dorothy appeared before stage audiences with great success. Actually, had she not made her way into films, Lillian quite possibly could have been one of the great stage actresses of all time. Ultimately, though, she found her way onto the big screen. In 1912, she met famed director D.W. Griffith. Impressed with what he saw, he immediately cast her in what was to be her first film, An Unseen Enemy (1912), followed by The One She Loved (1912) and My Baby (1912). She would make 12 films for Griffith in 1912. With 25 films in the next two years, Lillian's exposure to the public was so great that she fast became one of the top stars in the industry, right alongside Mary Pickford, "America's Sweetheart".

Lillian in The Birth of a Nation (1915)

Lillian in The Angel of Contention (1914)

Lillian in The Hunchback (1914)

In 1915, Lillian starred as Elsie Stoneman in Griffith's most ambitious project to date, The Birth of a Nation (1915). She was not making the large number of films that she had been 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, she appeared in another Griffith classic, Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916). By the early 1920s, her career was on its way down. As with anything else, be it sports or politics, new faces appeared on the scene to replace the "old", and Lillian was no different. In fact, she did not appear at all on the screen in 1922, 1925 or 1929. However, 1926 was her busiest year of the decade with roles in La Bohème (1926) and The Scarlet Letter (1926). As the decade wound to a close, "talkies" were replacing silent films. However, Lillian was not idle during her time away from the screen. She appeared in stage productions, to the acclaim of the public and critics alike. In 1933, she filmed His Double Life (1933), but did not make another film for nine years.

Lillian in Orphans of the Storm (1921)

Lillian and Dorothy Gish in Orphans of the Storm (1921)

Lillian in Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl (1919)

Lillian and Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun (1946)

When she returned in 1943, she appeared in two big-budget pictures, Commandos Strike at Dawn (1942) and Top Man (1943). Although these roles did not bring her the attention she had had in her early career, Lillian still proved she could hold her own with the best of them. She earned an Oscar nomination as Best Supporting Actress for her role of Laura Belle McCanles in Duel in the Sun (1946), but lost to Anne Baxter in The Razor's Edge (1946).

Lillian in Duel in the Sun (1946)

One of the most critically acclaimed roles of her career came in the thriller The Night of the Hunter (1955), also notable as the only film directed by actor Charles Laughton. In 1969, she published her autobiography, "The Movies, Mr. Griffith, and Me". In 1987, she made what was to be her last motion picture, The Whales of August (1987), a box-office success that exposed her to a new generation of fans. Her 75-year career is almost unbeatable in any field, let alone the film industry. On February 27, 1993, at age 99, Lillian Gish died peacefully in her sleep at her Manhattan apartment in New York City. She never married.

Lillian in The Love Boat (1977)

*Courtesy of IMDb.com

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Lillian Diana Gish (October 14, 1893 – February 27, 1993) was an American pioneering actress of the screen and stage, and a director and writer. Her film acting career spanned 75 years, from 1912, in silent film shorts, to 1987. Gish was called "The First Lady of American Cinema", and is credited with pioneering fundamental film performance techniques.

Gish was a prominent film star from 1912 into the 1920s, being particularly associated with the films of director D. W. Griffith. This included her leading role in the highest-grossing film of the silent era, Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1915). At the dawn of the sound era, she returned to the stage and appeared in film infrequently, including well-known roles in the controversial western Duel in the Sun (1946) and the thriller The Night of the Hunter (1955).

She also did considerable television work from the early 1950s into the 1980s, and closed her career playing opposite Bette Davis in the 1987 film The Whales of August. During her later years Gish became a dedicated advocate for the appreciation and preservation of silent film. Despite being better known for her film work, she was also accomplished on stage, and was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1972.

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