A Gish Talkie
TIRED OF SILENT FILMS ! ACTRESS WELCOMES ; NEW VENTURE
Lillian Gish is about to begin rehearsals, on her first talking picture. “The Swan.” from the play by Ferenc Molnar.
“I really have done about everything I could for silent pictures,” she said. It’s rather nice to be going to make a new sort of thing.” Two years ago Lillian Gish had been thinking of doing stage work and had had some excellent voice training' Thus, while Miss
Gish has never had a voice test, she feels not unprepared for her talking work in “The Swan.” The role is a radical departure from the fluttery parts that first brought her to popularity with D. W. Griffith as her director. While Miss Gish preserves her long hair, she has been as radical as Mary Pickford in changing her sort of roles for films, for in “The Swan” she plays a modern lightly sophisticated role. In the cast will be Conrad Nagel, Rod Laßocciue and Marie Dressier.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 846, 14 December 1929, Page 30
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166A Gish Talkie Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 846, 14 December 1929, Page 30
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