Monday, May 22, 2017

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
May 22, 2017

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