YES, YES, MARGARET!!!!! Good point!!!! Its those mature, determined details that send Gish’s performance into the stratosphere. JAMIE-this is EXACTLY a perfect example of the creativity and lived in brilliance that Lillian Gish brought to THE WIND and other performances in her canon. She NEVER makes a wrong turn. MARGARET is exactly right and deserves thanks for illustrating this (and a lot faster than I was to get to it). There are great actors and there are UNTOUCHABLE actors. Lillian Gish, along with Marlon Brando, Katharine Hepburn, Lionel Barrymore, Spencer Tracy, Anna Magnani, Max Von Sydow, Laurence Olivier, James Stewart, Marlene Dietrich, Liv Ullman (just to name a few) were, indeed, UNTOUCHABLE. We’ll never (well, maybe Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson, Daniel Day-Lewis) see their likes again (oh, I forgot to mention Paul Newman and Sean Penn). Its guys and gals like that who have the mold broken… Gish was one of the standard-setters. They all, who come after her, learn from her. She sizzles!!!!!
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