Lillian Gish Home - New York City

Lillian Gish's home is on East 57th Street in New York City.  The actress spent the last fifty years of her life in this apartment.  She began her film career in 1912 and worked initially for director D. W. Griffith both in New York and in Hollywood.  In 1925 she moved to MGM, but by 1930, with the advent of sound, she opted to return to New York, and the stage, and chose this Sutton Place apartment as her home.  During this time she split her work between the stage, Hamlet (1936), Anya (1965), screen, Duel In The Sun (1946), Portrait of Jennie (1948), Night Of The Hunter (1955), The Whales Of August (1987), and television, The Trip To Bountiful (1953), The Silent Years (1975) on PBS. She was awarded a special Academy Award in 1971 and The American Film Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award in 1984. She passed away here on February 27, 1993 at the age of 99.

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