Lillian Gish — Motography’s Gallery of Picture Players (1914) 🇺🇸

Lillian Gish, of Mutual Film Corporation picture fame, was named by Belasco as the most beautiful blond in the world.

And since Miss Gish was noted for her beauty at the age of six, when she played little Eva in Uncle Tom’s Cabin, the theory about pretty girls starting out in life as homely babies did not hold good in her case.

Several moving picture leading ladies have helped to explode this popular theory. Lillian Gish, Vivian Prescott and Mary Pickford all started as stage children and in fact appeared in the old melodrama In Convict Stripes at about the same time. All three were famous as beautiful children.

Miss Gish was first introduced to picture audiences by D. W. Griffith at the Biograph studio, and in the pictures of the “A. B.” [American Mutoscope and Biograph Company] make, her prettiness of face and modesty of manner gained her much popularity.

When Mr. Griffith turned to the Mutual forces, Miss Gish followed him.

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Collection: Motography Magazine, February 1914