D.W. Griffith, the Gish Sisters and the origin of "Hollywood Babylon" (Fake News: Fact Checking Hollywood Babylon Episode 1)
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Griffith's Relationship With Carol Dempster
Mister griffith told us, we must never kiss actors. It isn't healthy. He told them it was the sure fire route to disease. When another director then ordered 17 year old dorothy gish to kiss heart throb wallace reed on camera, she insisted, we don't do such things in pictures. In films, we pretend to kiss and with the camera at a distance. It seems that we do. Mr Griffiths wasn't a mere pet file or creep, but he had an unusual fetish that caused him to fall in love with teen age girls. And yet his greatest fear was that they would actually reduce themselves to having sex. Which doesn't mean that
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