Individual Details

Lillian Gish was a well known actress. She lived in New York City and came to know a neighbor, Gladys Smith, who was a child actress. Gladys, better know as Mary Pickford, introduced the sisters to director D. W. Griffith. Lillian would star in D. W. Griffiths' "Birth of a Nation" in 1915.

Birth	14 Oct 1893	Springfield, , IL
Death	27 Feb 1993	New York, New York, NY

Father	James Leigh Gish (1872 - 1912)
Mother	Mary Robinson McConnelly (1875 - 1948)
Sibling	Dorothy E. Gish (1898 - 1968)