Lillian Gish and Anthony Perkins looking at Nevil Shute's On the Beach. The 1957 post-apocalyptic novel, written by British-Australian author Nevil Shute, became a film in 1959 starring, among others, Perkins. This photo is likely promotional for the film and published possibly in 1959 or 1960! (Source: Lillian Gish Collection, Library of Congress, Madison Building, Washington DC.)
With “Winchester,” the Helen Mirren movie about
Sarah Winchester and the Winchester Mystery House, forthcoming, there’s been a
lot of attention refocusing on the mansion, which will begin giving its first
new tour in 20 years on Thursday, May 25. Tourists will enter at the front
door, but in fact, that was an entrance at which Winchester never greeted
company. When President Theodore Roosevelt came to visit, she made him use the
back door (and probably told him to wipe his shoes before coming inside).
Source: Leah Garchik, San Francisco Chronicle. May 18, 2017
In 1963, Lillian Gish narrated a documentary on
the Winchester Mystery House, title Mrs. Winchester's House A Legend TOld by Miss Lillian Gish" at Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17AtKbQ7glU
The documentary is effectively eerie in
black-and-white. I hope some of Lillian’s narration will be in the upcoming film.
Jim Patterson
May 22, 2017
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