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Lillian Gish in The Scarlet Letter (1926, dir. Victor Sjöström)

“Thus the young and pure would be taught to look at her, with the scarlet letter flaming on her breast,—at her, the child of honorable parents,—at her, the mother of a babe, that would hereafter be a woman, —at her, who had once been innocent, —as the figure, the body, the reality of sin.”

-The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne

Lillian and Dorothy Gish, Orphans of the Storm, 1921

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Lillian and sister Dorothy Gish photographed by Diane Arbus, 1964

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Lillian and sister Dorothy Gish, 1951

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Lillian Gish, 1922

Photographed by Charles Albin

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Lillian Gish, Way Down East, 1920

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Lillian Gish, c. 1920

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Lillian Gish

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Lillian Gish

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Lillian Gish (with Noel Coward in his first film role), Hearts of the World, 1918.

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