Lillian Gish is a movies legend for her profound influence on the art of screen acting, her career spanning both the silent and sound eras, and her trailblazing role as one of cinema's first female directors. Dubbed the "First Lady of American Cinema," Gish's performances were celebrated for their subtlety and emotional depth. #liliangish #moviestars #silentfilm #1920s #1920sHollywood | Jeff Waters

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The Silent Films Era The term silent film is a retronym—a term created to retroactively distinguish something from later developments. Early sound films, starting with The Jazz Singer in 1927, were variously referred to as the "talkies", "sound films", or "talking pictures". The idea of combining motion pictures with recorded sound is older than film (it was suggested almost immediately after Edison introduced the phonograph in 1877), and some early experiments had the projectionist manually adj