The Actors: Rare Films of Lillian Gish – Volume 2
February 14, 2014The Actors: Rare Films of Lillian Gish – Volume 2
Call number: DVD00631
Director/Distributor: by Lillian Gish; D W Griffith; Christy Cabanne; Robert Harron; Wilbur Higby; Walter Long; Classic Video Streams
Format: DVD
Language: Silent (English)
Publisher: Classic Video Streams
Summary: True Heart Susie (1919): “Susie, a plain young country girl, secretly loves a neighbor boy, William. She believes in him and sacrifices much of her own happiness to promote his own ambitions, all without his knowledge. Eventually he rises to a position of success and sophistication, and Susie realizes that she has through her own efforts raised him to a level where he is inaccessible to her
Sold for Marriage (1916): “A poor Russian girl’s beauty leads her unscrupulous uncle to bring her to the United States. There he is going to sell her into a marriage with a rich old man she has never met. But her lover, an returning immigrant visiting Russia from the U.S., sails on the same ship. When they arrive he learns, to his surprise, that the American police, unlike those of his native country, are not oppressors of the poor, but friends that will aid in securing the release of his beloved Maria
Notes: Also see Volume 1 (DVD00630) and Volume 3 (DVD00632)
OCLC #: 698341940
Added: 2/14/14
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection.
