LILLIAN GISH Vintage 1926 Silent Movie Star MGM Still LA BOHEME Film PHOTOGRAPH

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Here is an unique opportunity to personally own a piece of cinema history!
This is a RARE, vintage movie lobby photograph publicity still of a Silent Screen legend from my extensive personal collection.
This is NOT a reproduction copy or newer reprint.
It's a wonderful promotional item that was sent to newspapers for publicity and to theaters for display
in the lobby to advertise the film/star to the public.

Please be aware that my low res digital image may differ slightly from
the actual picture quality due to exposure/lighting/focus/cropping.
A vintage original black and white single weight glossy print still photo.

Motion Picture Title: La Boheme
Director: King Vidor Writers: Fred De Gresac (screen play), Henri Murger (suggested by "Life in the Latin Quarter" by) Stars: Lillian Gish, John Gilbert and Renée Adorée
Approximate Size in Inches: 8 x 10" (20 x 25 cm)

Approximate Year of Origin: 1926

Movie Studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Film Star pictured: Lillian Gish

Physical Condition: Good-
A great classic scene portrait of the lovely silent screen actress with NO pinholes but has creases & wear.
Lillian Gish was born on October 14, 1893 in Springfield, Ohio. Her father James Lee Gish was an alcoholic who caroused around, was rarely at home and left the family to more or less to fend for themselves. To help make ends meet, Lillian, her sister Dorothy Gish and their mother Mary Gish a.k.a. Mary Robinson McConnell tried their hand at acting in local productions. Lillian was all of six years old when she first appeared in front of an audience. For the next 13 years, she and Dorothy appeared before stage audiences with great success. Actually, had she not made her way into films, Lillian quite possibly could have been one of the great stage actresses of all time. Ultimately, though, she found her way onto the big screen. In 1912 she met famed director D.W. Griffith. Impressed with what he saw, he immediately cast her in what was to be her first film, An Unseen Enemy (1912), followed by The One She Loved (1912) and My Baby (1912). She would make 12 films for Griffith in 1912. With 25 films in the next two years, Lillian's exposure to the public was so great that she fast became one of the top stars in the industry, right alongside Mary Pickford, "America's Sweetheart". In 1915 Lillian starred as Elsie Stoneman in Griffith's most ambitious project to date, The Birth of a Nation (1915). She wasn't making the large number of films that she was in the beginning, because she was successful and popular enough to be able to pick and choose the right films to appear in. The following year she appeared in another Griffith classic, Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916). By the early 1920s her career was on its way down. As in anything else, be it sports or politics, new faces appeared on the scene to replace the "old", and Lillian was no different. In fact, she didn't appear at all on the screen in 1922, 1925 or 1929. However, 1926 was her busiest of the decade with roles in La bohème (1926) and The Scarlet Letter (1926). As the decade wound to a close, "talkies" were replacing silent films. However, Lillian wasn't idle during her time away from the screen. She appeared in stage productions to acclaim of the public and critics alike. In 1933 she filmed His Double Life (1933), and then didn't make another film for ten years. When she did return in 1943, she played in two big-budget pictures, Commandos Strike at Dawn (1942) and Top Man (1943). It was as though she had never been away. Allthough these roles did not bring her the attention she had in her early career, Lillian still proved she could hold her own with the best of them. She got an Oscar nomination as Best Supporting Actress for her role of Laura Belle McCanles in Duel in the Sun (1946), but lost to Anne Baxter in The Razor's Edge (1946). One of the most critically acclaimed roles of her career came in the 1955 thriller The Night of the Hunter (1955), also notable as the only film directed by actor Charles Laughton. In 1969 she published her autobiography, "The Movies, Mr. Griffith, and Me". In 1987 she made what was to be her last motion picture, The Whales of August (1987), a box-office success that exposed her to a new generation of fans. Her 75-year career is almost unbeatable in any field, let alone the film industry. On February 27, 1993, Lillian died peacefully in her sleep in New York City. She was 99 years old.

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the actual genuine 100% original old photo you will receive.

This professionally authenticated photograph is great looking, collectable and very frameable.

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Gradings:

Mint: Flawless and unused

Near Mint: Very slightly used with almost no defects.

Very Fine: Insignificant wear or defects, such as pinholes on the borders.

Fine: Minor wear or defects, such as pinholes within the borders.

Very Good: Generally used, with normal age wear, with moderate defects.

Good: Heavily used but the overall eye appeal of the piece is intact.

Fair: Heavy wear with defects.

Poor: Major defects.

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