Italian postcard by Casa Editrice Ballerini & Fratini, Firenze (B.F.F.), no. 199. Photo: Metro-Goldwyn, Roma (MGM). Publicity still for La Bohème (King Vidor, 1926).

American actress Lillian Gish (1893-1993) was ‘The First Lady of the Silent Screen’. During the 1910s, she was one of director D.W. Griffith’s greatest stars. She appeared in features such as The Birth of a Nation (1915), Broken Blossoms (1919), and Orphans of the Storm (1921). After 13 years with Griffith, she moved to MGM where her first picture was La bohème (1926). In the 1940s she again appeared in a handful of films and received a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for her role as Laura Belle McCanles in Duel in the Sun (1946). Her last film was The Whales of August (1987) in which she shared the lead with Bette Davis.

Source: Tony Fontana (IMDb).

via Flickr https://flic.kr/p/2arh8Ga