Want to know the best Lillian Gish movies? How about the worst Lillian Gish movies? Curious about Lillian Gish box office grosses or which Lillian Gish movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Lillian Gish movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences and which ones got the worst reviews? Well you have come to the right place…. because we have all of that information and much more.
Lillian Gish (1893-1993) was an American actress, who the American Film Institute ranked as one of the Top 50 Screen Legends of all time. Gish is ranked as the 17th best actress, right behind #16 Vivien Leigh and right before #18 Shirley Temple. One of our goals is to do a movie page on all 50 Screen Legends. After completing this page we have now written movie pages on 48 (or 96%) of those performers……leaving only 1 actress and 1 actor that still need movie pages.
Her IMDb page shows 112 acting credits from 1912-1987. This page will rank 31 Lillian Gish movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Every Gish feature film from 1920 to 1987 are included in the page. Her shorts and television appearances were not included on the page. Sadly, due to lack of box office information there about 8 movies from 1912 to 1919 that we were unable to include. The search will continue for those pages.
Lillian Gish Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Lillian Gish Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.
- Sort Lillian Gish movies by co-stars of her movies
- Sort Lillian Gish movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Lillian Gish movies by yearly domestic box office rank
- Sort Lillian Gish movies by how they were received by critics and audiences. 60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and Oscar® wins each Lillian Gish movie received.
- Sort Lillian Gish movies by Ultimate Movie Ranking (UMR) Score. UMR puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
- Blue Link in Co-Star column will take you to that star’s UMR movie page
Possibly Interesting Facts About Lillian Gish
1. Lillian Gish was born in Springfield, Ohio in 1893.
2. Lillian and her sister Dorothy have a combined 251 IMDb acting credits. 139 for Dorothy and 112 for Lillian.
3. Growing up Lillian Gish’s next door neighbor was Gladys Smith. You might know Gladys be her stage name….Mary Pickford.
4. Counting their short films…legendary director D.W. Griffith and Gish made over 40 movies together.
5. Lillian Gish was never married and never had any children.
6. While shooting 1920’s Way Down East, Lillian Gish was required to lie down on a slab of ice that was floating in a river for several hours in order to shoot a scene. While she did this, one of her hands was immersed in freezing cold water for hours, which permanently damaged the nerves in her wrist.
7. Lillian Gish left her entire estate, which was valued at several million dollars, to Helen Hayes. Hayes died 18 days after Gish.
8. Lillian Gish was nominated for one Oscar®…Best Supporting Actress in 1946’s Duel in the Sun and one Golden Globe®….Best Supporting Actress for 1967’s The Comedians.
9. Lillian Gish did receive a Honorary Oscar® in 1971…..”For superlative artistry and for distinguished contribution to the progress of motion pictures”.
10. Check out Lillian Gish’s movie career compared to current and classic stars on our Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time page.
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Lillian Gish is the # 47 most connected actor of the 1910’s.