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Wednesday, October 14, 2026

Born on this day – Lillian Gish:


Lillian Gish


Actress

Director

Writer

October 14, 1893 – February 27, 1993

Books:

A Moment with Miss Gish (1995); An Actor's Life for Me (1987); Dorothy and Lillian Gish (1973); Flickers of Desire: Movie Stars of the 1910s (2011); Lillian Gish: A Life on Stage and Screen (2000); Lillian Gish: Her Legend, Her Life (2002); Never Let the Camera Catch Me Acting: Lillian Gish as Actress, Star, and Theorist (2016); Star Acting: Gish, Garbo, Davis (1977); The Movies in the Age of Innocence (1962); The Movies, Mr. Griffith, and Me (1969).

Album:

Show Boat (1988).

Movies and television:

100 Years at the Movies (1994); 1955 Motion Picture Theatre Celebration (1955); 90 Minutes Live (1978); A Cry for Help (1912); A Duel for Love (1914); A Gift of Music (1981); A Misunderstood Boy (1913); A Modest Hero (1913); A Romance of Happy Valley (1919); A Sétima Arte (2021); A Timely Interception (1913); A Wedding (1978); A Woman in the Ultimate (1913); AFI Life Achievement Award (1978–1984); AFI Life Achievement Award (1988); All-Star Party for 'Dutch' Reagan (1985); American Masters (1988–1993); American Playhouse (1986); An Indian's Loyalty (1913); An Innocent Magdalene (1916); An Unseen Enemy (1912); And the Oscar Goes to... (2014); Annie Laurie (1927); Arena (2012); Arsenic and Old Lace (1969); At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper (1993); Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925); Bienvenue à Cannes (2007); Black Shadows on the Silver Screen (1975); Blue Skies Beyond the Looking Glass (2008); Breaking Point (1963); Broken Blossoms (1919); Brutality (1912); Camera Three (1975); Campbell Summer Soundstage (1954); Captain Macklin (1915); CBS Early Morning News (1982); Celanese Theatre (1951); Celebrity Time (1950); Century of Cinema (1995); Christmas Festival Hour of Music (1953); Cineficción Radio (2021); Citizen Langlois (1995); Classified X (2007); Commandos Strike at Dawn (1942); Compression (2023–2025); D.W. Griffith (1975); Daphne and the Pirate (1916); Day for Night (1973); De película (1987); Diane of the Follies (1916); Dinah! (1978); Duel in the Sun (1946); During the Round-Up (1913); Enoch Arden (1915); Entertainment Tonight (1983); Épreuves d'artistes (2004); Et la femme créa Hollywood (2016); Fashions in Love (1936); Film '74 (1974); Film Fun (1955); Flicker Flashbacks No. 1, Series 5 (1947); Flicker Flashbacks No. 5, Series 2 (1945); Flicker Flashbacks No. 6, Series 2 (1945); Follow Me, Boys! (1966); Ford Star Jubilee (1956); From Farm to Fame (1922); Gaslight Follies (1945); Gold and Glitter (1912); Greta Garbo: The Temptress and the Clown (1985); Hallelujah the Hills (1963); Hambone and Hillie (1983); Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood (1987); Harty (1983); Hearts of the World (1918); His Double Life (1933); His Lesson (1915); Hobson's Choice (1983); Hollywood (1972 / 1980); Hollywood Greats (1978); Hollywood Mavericks (1990); Hollywood: The Golden Years (1961); Hollywood's Diamond Jubilee (1978); Home, Sweet Home (1914); Hometown Legend (2002); Howard K. Smith (1962); In Concert at the Met (1984); In the Aisles of the Wild (1912); Intolerance (1916); Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold (2017); Judith of Bethulia (1914); Just Gold (1913); Kraft Theatre (1955); Kraft Theatre / The Philco Television Playhouse (1949–1953); La Bohème (1926); Langlois (1970); Late Night Line-Up (1969); Legends of World Cinema (2004); Les évangéliques à la conquête du monde (2023); Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still (1972); Lillian Gish (1984); Lillian Gish in a Liberty Loan Appeal (1918); Lionpower from MGM (1967); Lord Chumley (1914); Madonna of the Storm (1913); Man's Enemy (1914); Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies (2008); MGM: When the Lion Roars (1992); Miss Susie Slagle's (1946); Movies Golden Age (1961); Moving Pictures (1995); Mr. Novak (1963); Mrs. Winchester's House (1963); My Baby (1912); Never Apologize (2007); Night Hunter (2011); Night of 100 Stars (1982); Night of 100 Stars II (1985); Oil and Water (1913); One Romantic Night (1930); Orders to Kill (1958); Orphans of the Storm (1921); Over Easy (1980); Parkinson (1980); Pathways of Life (1916); Person to Person (1954); Play of the Week (1960); Playwrights '56 (1955); Portrait of Jennie (1948); Project Twenty (1957–1961); Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women (2014); Remodeling Her Husband (1920); Robert Montgomery Presents (1951–1954); Romola (1924); Royal Variety Performance (1980); Schlitz Playhouse (1952); Screen Snapshots, Series 1, No. 20 (1921); Screen Snapshots, Series 18, No. 12 (1939); Screen Snapshots, Series 23, No. 4 (1943); Screen Snapshots, Series 23, No. 9 (1944); Screen Snapshots, Series 28, No. 3: Stars to Remember (1948); Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 17 (1923); Ship's Reporter (1948–1952); Sigrid Holmquist (2010); Silver Glory (1951); So Near, Yet So Far (1912); So Runs the Way (1913); Sold for Marriage (1916); Souls Triumphant (1917); Sparrow (1978); Star Power: The Creation of United Artists (1998); Sweet Liberty (1986); The 11th Annual Tony Awards (1957); The 15th Annual Tony Awards (1961); The 1974 Annual Entertainment Hall of Fame Awards (1974); The 36th Annual Tony Awards (1982); The 43rd Annual Academy Awards (1971); The 53rd Annual Academy Awards (1981); The 66th Annual Academy Awards (1994); The Alcoa Hour (1956); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1964); The Angel of Contention (1914); The Annual Waldorf Gala Salute to Myrna Loy (1985); The Battle of Elderbush Gulch (1913); The Battle of the Sexes (1914); The Birth of a Nation (1915); The Burglar's Dilemma (1912); The Carol Burnett Show (1978); The CBS Festival of Lively Arts for Young People (1979); The Children Pay (1916); The Cobweb (1955); The Comedians (1967); The Comedians in Africa (1967); The Conscience of Hassan Bey (1913); The David Frost Show (1969–1972); The Defenders (1962–1964); The Dick Cavett Show (1971 / 1979); The DuPont Show of the Week (1962); The Ed Sullivan Show (1955 / 1961); The Enemy (1927); The Film Society Of Lincoln Center Annual Gala Tribute to Elizabeth Taylor (1986); The Film Society Of Lincoln Center Annual Gala Tribute to Laurence Olivier (1983); The Film Society of Lincoln Center Tribute to George Cukor (1978); The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies (1995); The Folly of Anne (1914); The Ford Theatre Hour (1949); The Great Chase (1962); The Great Director (1966); The Great Love (1918); The Greatest Question (1919); The Greatest Thing in Life (1918); The Green-Eyed Devil (1914); The House Built Upon Sand (1916); The House of Darkness (1913); The House That Shadows Built (1931); The Hunchback (1914); The Joey Bishop Show (1969); The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (1982); The Lady and the Mouse (1913); The Left-Handed Man (1913); The Legend of Rudolph Valentino (1961); The Lily and the Rose (1915); The Lost House (1915); The Love Boat (1981); The Love Goddesses (1965); The Magical World of Disney (1981); The Making of 'the Birth of a Nation' (1998); The March of Time, Vol. 5, No. 12: The Movies March On (1939); The Merv Griffin Show (1969–1980); The Mike Douglas Show (1969–1978); The Mothering Heart (1913); The Movie Album (1932); The Moving Picture Boys in the Great War (1975); The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912); The New York Hat (1912); The Night of the Hunter (1955); The Painted Lady (1912); The Quicksands (1914); The Rebellion of Kitty Belle (1914); The Scarlet Letter (1926); The Silent Feminists: America's First Women Directors (1993); The Silent Years (1975); The Sisters (1914); The Spiral Staircase (1961); The Stars Salute America's Greatest Movies (1977); The Tear That Burned (1914); The Trip to Bountiful (1953); The U.S. and the Holocaust (2022); The Unforgiven (1960); The Unwelcome Guest (1913); The Whales of August (1987); The White Sister (1923); The Wind (1928); Theatre '62 (1961); These Amazing Shadows (2011); Thin Ice (1981); This Is Your Life (1985); Tomorrow Coast to Coast (1975); Top Man (1943); True Heart Susie (1919); Twin Detectives (1976); Two Daughters of Eve (1912); Valkokangas (1989); VM Show Vol. 2 (2005); Warning Shot (1966); Way Down East (1920); Wide Wide World (1955); Wonderful Town, U.S.A. (1951).

Tuesday, February 24, 2026

On this day in movie history - La Bohème (1926 movie & novel):


La Bohème

directed by King Vidor,
written by Frédérique De Grésac, William M. Conselman and Ruth Cummings,
based on the 1851 novel Scenes of Bohemian Life by Henri Murger,
and the 1896 opera La bohème by Giacomo Puccini,
was released in the United States on February 24, 1926.
Music by William Axt.


Cast:

Lillian Gish, John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, George Hassell, Roy D'Arcy, Edward Everett Horton, Karl Dane, Mathilde Comont, Gino Corrado, Eugene Pouyet, Frank Currier, David Mir, Catherine Vidor, Valentina Zimina, Agostino Borgato, Harry Crocker, Blanche Payson.

Recommended reading:


Scènes De La Vie De Bohême

By Henri Murger.

First published 1849.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 0359742505
ISBN-13: 978-0359742509

Description:

The inspiration for Puccini’s great opera La Bohème, Henri Murger’s episodic story of the bohemians of mid-19th century Paris is a lively, eccentric and amusing narrative – it is presented here with the original 33 drawings. Less a novel and more a series of entertaining encounters, Murger’s work constructs a picture of artistic community and madcap association – aspiring painters, musicians and writers, all with strange stories to tell. Though struggling with poverty, the bohemians are blessed with occasional good fortune; eccentric but monied clients, or jobs landed by sheer luck and opportunistic panache. More than this however is the abiding theme of bonhomie between the young associates; all share the same dream – recognition and money for their creative endeavours – and are bound together by their place of meeting and low social standing. The café where the group gather to socialize serves as the genesis for several plotlines; here the protagonists commiserate and collaborate in equal measure.