Life and Lillian Gish: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
Life and Lillian Gish by Albert Bigelow Paine: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 58 original MP3 tracks, 10:02:35 running time and a link to listen.
Life and Lillian Gish, credited to Albert Bigelow Paine, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
About the work
The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
LibriVox LibriVox reading of Life and Lillian Gish by Albert Bigelow Paine. Read in English by Tomas Peter; Linda Olsen Fitak; Eva Davis; BettyB; Jude Somers; Andrea Kotzer; Kathleen Moore; John; David Lawrence; Caroline Lilyard; Chuck Williamson and Michael Fassio. An authorized biography of Lillian Gish, the renowned silent film star known in her heyday as the First Lady of American Cinema. Albert Bigelow Paine chronicles Gish's early life, her close relationship with her sister Dorothy, her rise in film as an actor with Biograph Studios and muse of D. W. Griffith, her short time as a contract actor with MGM, and her return to the stage in the advent of the talkies. Peppered throughout with intimate and amusing anecdotes, this is a must-read for film historians, silent film enthusiasts, and admirers of one of cinema's legendary talents. ( Tomas Peter)
Recording facts
- Recording title: Life and Lillian Gish
- Author credits: Albert Bigelow Paine
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 58
- Listed recording duration: 10:02:35
Catalogue topics
- biography
- film
- cinema
- celebrity
- theater
- acting
- lillian gish
- silent film
Opening tracks: first 24 of 58
- 00 - Epigraph — 2:41
- 01 - Prologue — 1:30
- 02 - A Girl Child, Born with a Caul — 4:09
- 03 - Life and a Little Girl — 7:54
- 04 - On Nat Goodwin's Shoulder — 8:29
- 05 - 'Theatre People' — 8:18
- 06 - A Little Trouper — 22:11
- 07 - Adventures of Dorothy — 6:15
- 08 - Mary Pickford in the Scene — 7:40
- 09 - 'Down the Line' — 6:23
- 10 - 'Her First False Step' — 19:35
- 11 - Dorothy's Tree — 6:37
- 12 - 'Supporting Bernhardt' — 5:41
- 13 - Massillon Days — 8:58
- 14 - Where the 'Road' Ends. Nell — 5:48
- 15 - A Convent School. Typhoid — 9:53
- 16 - Shawnee — 13:37
- 17 - It Sounds Like Heaven — 5:49
- 18 - 'Mr. Biograph' — 8:55
- 19 - Griffith's Group of Players — 5:26
- 20 - Belasco Delivers a Verdict — 10:11
- 21 - A Studio on Pico Street — 18:34
- 22 - The Path to Stardom — 14:06
- 23 - 'Home Sweet Home' — 9:17
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