Thank you for the nominations and awards!

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* Thank you to the voters at actress_ic Challenge 111 for voting my Lillian Gish icon Best Crop, and congratulations to the other winners erinm_4600, dragonydreams, vampgirl_nisha, ciuciuvaraworld, sandy79 and mops1980! This is my first time entering this icontest and it's very encouraging.
Thanks as ever to my darling beta-Muse velvetwhip for her input. My entries this round are dedicated to her because of our shared love of silent

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Thank you!

I've been on a silents kick lately, especially after reading Catherynne Valente's novel Radiance (basically, silent movie stars colonising the solar system by cannon and shooting hand-coloured melodramas on the moon), and one of the movies I've watched is The Wind, starring Gish. Holy shit, she was awesome in that.

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Lillian Gish gifs? MY LIFE IS NOW COMPLETE!!!

I had the good fortune to see The Wind at the old revival theater (complete with live organ music) in downtown Ann Arbor Michigan when I was going to college. I watched from the balcony of course because that's the only place to really watch a movie. (I dare say the balcony was where the "colored folks" were restricted to back in the day. ) Back then she was one of my idols, I completely adored her. Have you ever seen Night of the Hunter?

I also suffered through a horrible copy of Broken Blossoms on a really fuzzy and tiny tv set with foil wrapped around the antenna. That was way before YouTube and Netflix, when restored movies were just becoming a "thing".

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I had the good fortune to see The Wind at the old revival theater (complete with live organ music) in downtown Ann Arbor Michigan when I was going to college. I watched from the balcony of course because that's the only place to really watch a movie.

Jealous now. They regularly show silent movies with live music at the Film Institute here, but it's not exactly a classic theatre.

Have you ever seen Night of the Hunter?

Oh yes. Brilliant film. It's been a while though, I should probably rewatch. Once I get past my current "all movies made after 1929 suck" phase. :)

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It wasn't a fancy theater and I haven't been there in over 20 years but I have fond memories - it's also where I first saw Thelma and Louise with a group of my friends (at the same time I was coming out as a lesbian. God, I really loved the college experience as difficult as it was at times, being working class and having little financial support. Exploring films, discovering my own tastes, meeting people from around the world, the discussions late into the night....being introduced to old-school Doctor Who for the first time....

It's been a while though, I should probably rewatch.

Eh, there are a handful worth your time - but it's amazing how few and far between those actually are. (At the risk of sounding like a snob. Like that ever stopped me before.)

Diary of a Lost Girl OTOH is overrated, or rather, Louise Brooks is. Just sayin'

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Diary of a Lost Girl OTOH is overrated, or rather, Louise Brooks is. Just sayin'

Have you seen Pandora's Box? I thought she was pretty good in that, even if the moral of the story is slightly iffy, to say the least. Plus, canon lesbian character in 1929.

Eh, there are a handful worth your time - but it's amazing how few and far between those actually are.

Don't I know it. I have a ton of DVDs and BluRays I've bought, watched once, and kept for some reason. Sometimes I wish someone could impose a 10-year moratorium on new books, movies and TV series so I could catch up and reread/rewatch everything in peace... :)

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No I haven't seen Pandora's Box yet. I think I want to more because of Louise Brook's memoir-essay about it in Lulu in Hollywood, than about the fact of the onscreen lesbian character (and how Pabst got what he wanted onscreen is a story in itself.)