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.
I went to a screening of The Wind (by Victor Sjostrum, not Griffith) one afternoon that was being shown by the great film historian Kevin Brownlow who would reconstruct the 1925 Napoleon. Before it began, we heard a voice and lo and behold Miss Gish walks in and takes a seat. Brownlow turned to the audience and exclaimed: “I’m showing Camille next week - maybe Garbo will show up!”
Both Miss Gish and Garbo lived on the eastside of NY - as did I.