Lillian Gish never married - why?
R. Frank
versed in the arts, interested in so many things. I know
she was close to D.W. Griffith early in her career and
held him in high esteem always, but even in later years
never married. I have always wondered why. Explanations?
Michael Gebert
All those would-be suitors who turned up mysteriously drained of blood...
Well, that's the explanation I would have given back when she was still
living-- and robust enough to still be playing the HEALTHY sister next to
someone 20 years younger like Bette Davis...
--
"The movie folks... have built their business upon a foundation of morons, and now they are paying for it. They seem to be unable to make a presentable picture without pouring out tons of money, and when they have made it they must either sell it to immense audiences of half-wits, or go broke.... Soon or late the movies will have to split into two halves. There will be movies for the present mob, and there will be movies for the relatively enlightened minority... the first really great movie, when it comes, will probably cost less than $5000." --H.L. Mencken, 1927
st...@creative.net
time. He's mentioned in her autobiography, but of course all very
discreetly.
-Cheers/Steon
Detour Filmproduction
: I thought Lillian Gish was wonderful. Attractive, well
: versed in the arts, interested in so many things. I know
: she was close to D.W. Griffith early in her career and
: held him in high esteem always, but even in later years
: never married. I have always wondered why. Explanations?
I know lots of women who never married, including quite a few of her
contemporaries. They were gay. Is this the answer you were fishing
for? (I have no idea what Ms. Gish's preference was, but I did meet her
once and she was very, very cool.)
clark w.
Tom Moran
herself:
Her mother's marriage had failed, and if her mother, whom Miss Gish
considered the eidos of human perfection, could not stay married, she
thought it best never to make the attempt.
The shorter answer is that it's nobody's business.
Bruce Long
>I thought Lillian Gish was wonderful. Attractive, well
>versed in the arts, interested in so many things. I know
>she was close to D.W. Griffith early in her career and
>held him in high esteem always, but even in later years
>never married. I have always wondered why. Explanations?
I think she wanted to retain control over her own life.
Particularly after her bad experience with Charles Duell,
which culminated in a lawsuit in which her love letters
were read in court (as I recall).
She probably vowed "never again!"
Bruce Long br...@asu.edu
KALBL
Eugene O'Neill in which he tells of hosting Gish and George Jean
Nathan at his house. He complains of how her cries kept
he and his wife up all night!
Jon and/or Carol Gicker
Lillian! Say it isn't so! You mean you were a human being like the
rest of us?
Thus do illusions die ....
Jonathan Gicker
gic...@nccn.net
Nevada City, California
Ad astre, per aspera
"To the stars, through hardship"
Kino International
Gish preferred the company of Ladies.
Jessica Rosner
Constance Kuriyama
Quite a few women who were able to have careers in the later
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries chose not to marry.
It limited their freedom, complicated their lives, and in
some respects put them in the legal and finana
cial power of their husbands.
In most cases it had nothing to do with sexual orientation.
Connie K..
Michael Gebert
Kuriyama) wrote:
Yeah, I wonder if that's a late-20th-century biographer simply assuming
that lesbianism is the ONLY possible explanation. I think the situation
she had with Charles Duell is plenty of reason...
Anima
her life for a career as well as romance. Considering that she made movies
in something like seven decades of this century, I would not want to be
the one to say that the extraordinary result indicates she made the wrong
choice.
--
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for the Government, I think one should ask oneself which technologies would
best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do not allow the Government
to deploy those technologies. --Philip Zimmermann
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avoiding any discussion of her private life -- she simply didn't have one.
C kuriyama
avoiding any discussion of her private life--she simply didn't have one."
She probably had less of one than many women of that time, but I'll
bet she had one! She probably felt that her private life was nobody
else's
business. This seems like an alien attitude to us today, when everybody
discusses the most intimate details of private life on national
television,
just as it seems strange to us that a woman might choose not to marry
for practical reasons. But actually, more women are doing this today
than ever before. Michael's suggestion that the later twentieth century
seeks sexual explanations--for everything, it seems-- has its merits.
Connie K.
isan...@gmail.com
> I thought Lillian Gish was wonderful. Attractive, well
> versed in the arts, interested in so many things. I know
> she was close to D.W. Griffith early in her career and
> held him in high esteem always, but even in later years
> never married. I have always wondered why. Explanations?
