Lillian Gish

Lillian Gish's Estate Sale Fetches More Than $200,000

June 24, 1995

Contents of an apartment that once belonged to silent screen star Lillian Gish sold for $232,127 Friday, nearly twice the expectations of Sotheby's auction house. Although 29 of the 183 lots offered did not sell, Gish's grandnieces and grandnephew selling the items took in far more than the $139,325 to $194,500 Sotheby's had predicted. A walnut commode sold slightly above estimates at $20,700. The chest once survived a smoky fire sparked by wires Edward R. Murrow was using while broadcasting an interview from Gish's apartment, the catalog said.

 

Birthdays

October 14, 1989

Actress Lillian Gish is 93. Actor Roger Moore is 62.

LOCAL

- Jim Whaley

August 5, 1992

Whaley, producer and host of the syndicated TV show Cinema Showcase, died Sunday in Atlanta of a heart attack. He was 44. For 20 years, Whaley brought stars such as Lillian Gish, John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Kevin Costner, Meryl Streep and Eddie Murphy to the show. He also did interviews with such Hollywood legends as Alfred Hitchcock, Otto Preminger and Steven Spielberg.

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- Actress Lillian Gish is 95.- Former Surgeon General C...

October 14, 1991

- Actress Lillian Gish is 95.- Former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop is 75.- Golfer Beth Daniel is 35.- State Rep. Bob Starks, R-Maitland, is 46.- Actor Roger Moore is 64.- Former White House Counsel John W. Dean III is 53.

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- State Rep. Bob Starks, R-Maitland, is 47.- Actress...

October 14, 1992

- State Rep. Bob Starks, R-Maitland, is 47.- Actress Lillian Gish is 99. (Some references say 96.)- Former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop is 76.- Actor Roger Moore is 65.- Former White House Counsel John W. Dean III is 54.- Fashion designer Ralph Lauren is 53.- Actor Harry Anderson is 40.- Actor Greg Evigan is 39.- Golfer Beth Daniel is 36.- Singer-musician Thomas Dolby is 34.

LOCAL

Robert Emhardt

January 3, 1995

Emhardt, a portly actor who appeared on Broadway and in several television shows, died Thursday in Ojai, Calif. He was in his 80s. Emhardt made his Broadway debut with Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in The Pirate in 1942 and starred with Helen Hayes in Harriet and Lillian Gish in The Curious Savage. He won the Critics Circle Award as best supporting actor of the 1948-49 season for his role in Life With Mother. Emhardt appeared in TV's Occasional Wife, Iron Horse, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Man From U.N.C.

LOCAL

Blanche Sweet, 90-year-old Star Of Silent Films

September 9, 1986

BLANCHE SWEET, 90, who made her first stage appearance in 1898 and became a major star of silent films, died Saturday.Sweet made 124 motion pictures; all but three silent. Her first was The Man with Three Wives in 1909. She became a star in 1913 in D. W. Griffith's Judith of Bethulia, one of the first feature-length films made in this country.Sweet played strong and determined young women in most of her films. Griffith originally had cast Sweet as Elsie Stoneman in the epic The Birth of a Nation but gave the role to Lillian Gish.

LOCAL

Really liked Field of Dreams, the new movie with Kevin...

May 20, 1989

Q I really liked Field of Dreams, the new movie with Kevin Costner as an Iowa farmer who conjures up the scandalous Chicago Black Sox team of 1919. Is it true that the writer, played by James Earl Jones, is based on J.D. Salinger?A In Ray Kinsella's novel Shoeless Joe, on which Field of Dreams is based, the character of the writer is supposed to be Salinger. Director Phil Alden Robinson, who adapted the novel for the screen, said, ''Apart from legal issues, I have great empathy for J.D. Salinger's desire for his privacy.

ENTERTAINMENT

Revel In The History Buffs' Revenge

July 7, 2000

Terrific action aside, the Mel Gibson Revolutionary War saga The Patriot doesn't have a whole lot to do with the real American Revolution. In a country whose citizens have trouble identifying in which century the Civil War took place, a movie like this can drive historians and history buffs nuts. How nuts? Check out Sweet Liberty, an Alan Alda comedy from 1986. He plays a historian whose book is being turned into a seriously unhistorical Hollywood movie. Alda kind of wore out his welcome with moviegoers in the 1980s, but his supporting cast more than compensates: Michael Caine as a wildly self-indulgent star, Michelle Pfeiffer as a leading lady who will go to great extremes to research a role, Bob Hoskins as a clueless screenwriter and the peerless Lillian Gish, in one of her last roles, as the author's dotty mom. And the finale?