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3 unusual facts about Dorothy Gish


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Griffith found and developed for the company stars such as Mary Pickford; the Gish sisters, Lillian and Dorothy; Lionel Barrymore; Mabel Normand; Harry Carey and director Mack Sennett.

Margaret Illington

She and George played the sisters later played famously by Lillian and Dorothy Gish in D. W. Griffith's 1922 film Orphans of the Storm.

Mistress Nell Gwyn

The year of its publication, the novel was adapted for the silent film Nell Gwyn, a prestige production directed by Herbert Wilcox for which the Hollywood actress Dorothy Gish was brought over to Britain to play Gwyn.



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