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| | American Masters . Lillian Gish | PBS |
 | | She has been called "the first lady of the silent screen," and film director D.W. Griffith extolled her "exquisite, ethereal beauty." She was Lillian Gish, the star of movies, television, radio, and the stage for nearly all of the 20th century. |
 | | From that young age Gish loved the theater, calling it a "beautiful, kind, generous, unselfish world." Before she was ten she had danced with Sarah Bernhardt in New York, and debuted in D.W. Griffith's AN UNSEEN ENEMY (1912). |
 | | Gish's ability to dazzle viewers with a complex range of emotions gave them insight into each character and a sense of intimacy. |
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