Complete and utter disgrace if true. She was a very great actress who appeared in DW Griffith movies. His movies are celebrated not because they had “racist themes” but because he created the language of cinema. It is his innovations that are celebrated not his negative portrayal of, say, Thaddeus Stevens. We used to know that but we are too stupid to know that now.
She appeared in endless classics from Broken Blossoms and Intolerance to The Wind and Night of the Hunter. I saw her one woman show on Griffith at Rutgers University when students had brains. I met her twice - once at the New York Museum of Broadcasting. A great lady, a kind lady.
I’m waiting for Gone With the Wind to be pulled from bookshelves and the movie burned.
This happened in February according to Wikipedia.
My maternal grandmother was named Gish and was Lillian’s and Dorothy’s first cousin. Lillian published a photo album in the early ‘70. I met her and got a copy autographed to my mother at Joske’s department store in Houston.