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 Love Affair
May marsh and dorothy and lilian gish, all of whom would play major roles in griffith's best remembered films, were abandoned by their fathers. The closest lilian got to publicly acknowledging feelings for griffith came when she said, my love affair was with pictures and the man who created them. May marsh jokingly told another actress on the film, miriam cooper, that she liked to call hedirector mister hines, because he liked to have 57 varieties of girls around him. Griffith wasn't interested in different varieties of girls. He was interested in having lots of girls around who all conformed to the same type.
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