WEBIn 1912, their friend Mary Pickford introduced the sisters to Griffith and helped get them contracts with Biograph Studios. Lillian Gish soon became one of America's best-loved actresses; she was 19 years old at …

WEBThere was Dorothy and Lillian Gish, but they were working with D.W. Griffith in New York, so when Owen mentioned that he had met a woman who was an excellent portrait painter and someone he thought she …

WEBThat year, Pickford also introduced Dorothy and Lillian Gish—whom she had befriended as new neighbors from Ohio [22] —to Griffith, [10] and each became a major silent film star, in comedy and tragedy, respectively.

WEBAnd so the world laughs with Chaplin and Lloyd, cries with Seastrom and Murnau and Griffith, startles at the revelations of Eisenstein, gasps pleasurably at Fairbanks and Valentino, feels tenderness with Mary …