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107 years ago:
Sold for Marriage
A poor Russian girl's beauty leads her unscrupulous uncle to bring her to the United States. There he is going to sell her into a marriage with a rich old man she has never met. But her lover, an returning immigrant visiting Russia from the U.S., sails on the same ship. When they arrive he learns, t...
1916-04-15
themoviedb.org/movie/186864

#soldformarriage #christycabanne #lilliangish #film

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97 years ago:
La Bohème (US)
It is 1830 in Paris and the rent is due, but the money is not there. An article here, a painting there and a monkey with a cup gives them enough money for the rent, but not for food. Fortunately, Musette from downstairs has enough food for everyone including Mimi - the poor little waif from next doo...
1926-03-13
themoviedb.org/movie/110253

#laboheme #kingvidor #lilliangish #johngilbert #mgm #precode #classicfilm

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💖 Lillian Gish (1893 – 1993) American actress, director, and screenwrite 🌺

#lilliangish #oldhollywood

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105 years ago:
Hearts of the World (US)
A group of youngsters grow up and love in a peaceful French village. But war intrudes and peace is shattered. The German army invades and occupies village, bringing both destruction and torture. The young people of the village resist, some successfully, others tragically, until French troops retake ...
1918-03-11
themoviedb.org/movie/174924

#HeartsOfTheWorld #dwgriffith #lilliangish #rosesmith #precode #movies

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109 years ago:
Judith of Bethulia (US)
Griffith adapts the story of the Apocryphal Book of Judith to the screen. During the siege of the Jewish city of Bethulia by the Assyrian tyrant Holofernes, a widow named Judith forms a plan to stop the war as her people suffer in starvation, nearly ready to surrender.
1914-03-08
themoviedb.org/movie/98078

#judithofbethulia #dwgriffith #lilliangish #harrycarey #precode #movies

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The First Lady of American Cinema and GOAT left us on the day in 1993 aged 99.

film

#lilliangish #legend #movies #films #movie #cinema #cinemastadon

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nel 1993 muore 99enne l’attrice americana vanta una lunghissima carriera: diva del muto gira l’ultimo film nel 1987. E’ la protagonista del capolavoro di Sjöström,
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#27febbraio #accaddeoggi #lilliangish #ilvento

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108 years ago:
The Birth of a Nation (US)
Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is captured in battle, nurse Elsie Stoneman petitions for his pardon. In Reconstruction-era South Carolina, Cameron founds the Ku Klux Klan, battling Elsie's co...
1915-02-08
themoviedb.org/movie/618

#thebirthofanation #dwgriffith #lilliangish #ralphlewis #wallacereid #rosesmith #precode #classicfilm

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104 years ago:
A Romance of Happy Valley (US)
John Logan leaves his parents and sweetheart in bucolic Happy Valley to make his fortune in the city. Those he left behind become miserable and beleaguered in his absence, but after several years he returns, a wealthy man. But his embittered father, not recognizing him for who he is, plans to murder...
1919-01-26
themoviedb.org/movie/165281

#aromanceofhappyvalley #dwgriffith #lilliangish #precode #classicfilm #classicmovies #movies #film

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96 years ago today:
The Scarlet Letter (US)
In Puritan Boston, seamstress Hester Prynne and kindly Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale fall in love. After Dimmesdale must go away for a time to England, he returns to discover that Hester has given birth to their child and is the focus of local censure.
1927-01-08
themoviedb.org/movie/85638

#thescarletletter #lilliangish #mgm #precode #classicfilm #classicmovies #movies #film

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96 years ago today:
The Scarlet Letter (US)
In Puritan Boston, seamstress Hester Prynne and kindly Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale fall in love. After Dimmesdale must go away for a time to England, he returns to discover that Hester has given birth to their child and is the focus of local censure.
1927-01-08
themoviedb.org/movie/85638

#thescarletletter #lilliangish #mgm #precode #classicfilm #classicmovies #movies #film

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in ‘s (better known as Victor Seastrom) film THE WIND (1928).

#victorsjostrom #lilliangish

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in ‘s (better known as Victor Seastrom) film THE WIND (1928).

#victorsjostrom #lilliangish

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