Lillian Gish Photos from Three Collections.

Lillian Gish with Burr Tillstrom, Kukla and Ollie, from NBC's The Kukla, Fran and Ollie Show. Circa 1950s. Source: Lillian Gish Collection, Library of Congress. Jim Patterson note: Lillian loved this early TV  program and often mentioned it in interviews. She wrote fan letters to Oliver Dragon. Some of Ollie's responses are in the Lillian Gish Papers, NYPL for the Performing Arts, Lincoln Center.  

Lillian Gish with Bea Lillie. Circa 1960s. Source: Lillian Gish Collection, Library of Congress. 

Lillian Gish with Gloria Swanson at an awards ceremony in New York. Circa early 1950s. Source: Lillian Gish Collection, Library of Congress. Jim Patterson note: A number of artists were gathered to honor Lillian and Swanson was likely talking with others when photograph was taken.  

Lillian Gish with Anthony Perkins, publicity for "On the Beach" (1959) starring Perkins. 

Lillian Gish Collection, Library of Congress.

Lillian Gish and Mary Pickford, circa 1950s.

Lillian Gish Collection, Library of Congress. Jim Patterson note: Both, beautiful and elegant.

LDGish.blogspot.com editor Jim Patterson with Lillian's "The Whales of August" (1987)  co-star Harry Carey, Jr.  at the San Francisco Silent Film festival, 2006. I wrote a story on this for the Financial Times. Source: Jim Patterson collection. 

Lillian Gish's lifelong friend Helen Hayes. Birth marker located in Washington DC

Source: Jim Patterson Collection 

Lillian Gish with Jeanne Moreau at the premiere Jerusalem Film Festival 1984. Source: Jerusalem Film Festival.

TV Guide advertisement for Lillian's "Twin Detectives" an ABC TV movie with the Hager Twins from Hee-Haw and the beautiful Lynda Day George. Source: Jim Patterson Collection. 1976. Jim Patterson note: Correspondence out to cast members 

Lillian Gish interview in the St. Louis Globe Democrat. Source: Jim Patterson Collection.

Lillian Gish Narrates Mrs. Winchester's House A Legend Told 1963 .

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

www.LDGish.blogspot.com

May 22, 2017