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Robert J. Avrech: Emmy Award winning screenwriter. Movie fanatic. Helplessly and hopelessly in love with my wife since age nine.

Lillian Gish

Lillian Gish Purged by Bowling Green State University

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Lillian Gish, among cinema’s early pioneers and one of our greatest actresses.

Lillian Gish was one of the most important actors in movie history.

She was there at the beginning of moving pictures working with D.W. Griffith, inventing the grammar of film, perfecting the new style of acting for the motion picture camera. She was Hollywood’s first great actress. Her film career lasted for 75 years from 1912 to her last film The Whales of August on 1987. She passed away in 1993 at the age of 99.

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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From Katharine Hepburn’s 1981 interview with Barbara Walters: Hepburn: “I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man…I’ve just done what I damn well wanted to and I made enough money to support myself. And I ain’t afraid of being alone.” Walters: “Is that why also you wear pants?” Hepburn: “No, I just wore pants because they’re comfortable.” Walters: “Do you ever wear a skirt, by the way?” Hepburn: “I have one.” Walters: “You have one.” Hepburn: “I’ll wear it to your funeral.”
From Katharine Hepburn’s 1981 interview with Barbara Walters:
Hepburn: “I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man…I’ve just done what I damn well wanted to and I made enough money to support myself. And I ain’t afraid of being alone.”
Walters: “Is that why also you wear pants?”
Hepburn: “No, I just wore pants because they’re comfortable.”
Walters: “Do you ever wear a skirt, by the way?”
Hepburn: “I have one.”
Walters: “You have one.”
Hepburn: “I’ll wear it to your funeral.”

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions, Self-Portraits, Early Selfies

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“Never get caught acting.” —Lillian Gish
“Never get caught acting.”
—Lillian Gish

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“The older I get, the more I believe in what I can't explain or understand, even more than the things that are explainable and understandable.” —Lillian Gish
“The older I get, the more I believe in what I can’t explain or understand, even more than the things that are explainable and understandable.”
—Lillian Gish

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Friday Photos: UnBaltimore Edition

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“I’m not interested in money, I just want to be wonderful.” -Marilyn Monroe Photo by Andre de Dienes, '50.
“I’m not interested in money, I just want to be wonderful.”
-Marilyn Monroe
Photo by Andre de Dienes, 1950.

The Baltimore neighborhood that saw the worst of the violence was already filled with many burned-out buildings and vacant lots that had not been rebuilt since the 1968 riots that followed the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

Source via my friend Neo-Neocon

Nothing more to say but enjoy the photos.

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