Lillian Gish Net Worth
Lillian Gish Net Worth is
$500,000
Lillian Gish Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Lillian Diana Gish (October 14, 1893 – February 27, 1993) was an American stage, screen and television actress, director and writer whose film acting career spanned 75 years, from 1912 to 1987. Gish was called The First Lady of American Cinema.She was a prominent film star of the 1910s and 1920s, particularly associated with the films of director D. W. Griffith, including her leading role in one of the highest grossing films of the Silent era, Griffith's seminal Birth of a Nation (1915). Her sound-era film appearances were sporadic but included well known roles in the controversial western Duel in the Sun (1946) and the offbeat thriller Night of the Hunter (1955). She did considerable television work from the early 1950s into the 1980s and closed her career playing, for the first time, opposite Bette Davis in the 1987 film The Whales of August. | Full Name | Lillian Gish |
| Date Of Birth | October 14, 1893, Springfield, Ohio, United States |
| Died | February 27, 1993, New York City, New York, United States |
| Place Of Birth | Springfield, Ohio, USA |
| Height | 5' 4" (1.63 m) |
| Profession | Actress, Writer, Soundtrack |
| Nationality | American |
| Parents | Mary Gish, James Leigh de Guiche |
| Siblings | Dorothy Gish |
| Awards | Academy Honorary Award, AFI Life Achievement Award, Kennedy Center Honors, National Board of Review Award for Best Actress |
| Nominations | Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role |
| Movies | The Birth of a Nation, Broken Blossoms, The Night of the Hunter, Intolerance, Way Down East, The Whales of August, Orphans of the Storm, An Unseen Enemy, Duel in the Sun, The Wind, Hearts of the World, The Unforgiven, Romola, Remodeling Her Husband, The White Sister, La Bohème, Commandos Strike at ... |
| Star Sign | Libra |
| # | Trademark |
|---|---|
| 1 | Later often played willful but conflicted women |
| 2 | Early roles as innocent, virginal characters who are victimized by a cruel world |
| 3 | Doll-like looks |
| 4 | Small frame |
| Title | Salary |
|---|---|
| The White Sister (1923) | $5,000 /week |
| An Unseen Enemy (1912) | $20 |
| # | Quote |
|---|---|
| 1 | [on why she acted in several comedies] I'm as funny as a barrel of dead babies. |
| 2 | I'm a believing person. I believe in God even though I can't see him. You can't see the air in this room, right? But take it away and you're dead. And I believe there's something for us after we die. The world isn't wasteful. |
| 3 | [Receiving an honorary Academy Award in 1971] Oh, all the charming ghosts I feel around me who should share this! It was our privilege for a little while to serve that beautiful thing, the film, and we never doubted for a moment that it was the most powerful thing, the mind and heartbeat of our technical century. |
| 4 | [on Greta Garbo] Garbo's temperament reflected the rain and gloom of the long dark Swedish winters. |
| 5 | [on Richard Barthelmess] The most beautiful face of any man who went before the camera. |
| 6 | I think the things that are necessary in my profession are these: Taste, Talent and Tenacity. I think I have had a little of all three. |
| 7 | [on D.W. Griffith] It's true, sometimes I called him David. Even so, I might have said David, but I always thought "Mr. Griffith". He was a born general. His voice was a voice of command. It was resonant, deep and full. |
| 8 | [on Mary Pickford] It was always Mary herself that shone through. Her personality was the thing that made her movies memorable and the pictures that showed her personality were the best. |
| 9 | [on D.W. Griffith] He inspired in us his belief that we were working in a medium that was powerful enough to influence the whole world. |
| 10 | I can't remember a time when I wasn't acting, so I can't imagine what I would do if I stopped now. |
| 11 | I've never been in style, so I can't go out of style. |
| 12 | I don't care for modern films--all crashing cars and close-ups of people's feet. |
| 13 | [after failing to receive a Best Actress nomination for The Whales of August (1987)] Oh, well. At least, I won't have to lose to Cher. |
| 14 | [1939] I believe that marriage is a career in itself. I have preferred a stage career to a marriage career. |
| 15 | [1919] Marriage is a business. A woman cannot combine a career and marriage... I should not wish to unite the two. |
| 16 | Those little virgins, after five minutes you got sick of playing them--to make them more interesting was hard work. |
| 17 | Fans always write asking why I didn't smile more in films. I smiled in Annie Laurie (1927), but I can't recall that it helped much. |
| 18 | I never approved of talkies. Silent movies were well on their way to developing an entirely new art form. It was not just pantomine, but something wonderfully expressive. |
| 19 | Lionel Barrymore first played my grandfather, later my father, and finally, he played my husband. If he'd lived, I'm sure I would have played his mother. That's the way it is in Hollywood. The men get younger and the women get older. |
| # | Fact |
|---|---|
| 1 | She met with Benito Mussolini, whom she greatly admired, during a visit to Italy. |
| 2 | Strongly denied The Birth of a Nation (1915) was racist until her death, despite ongoing complaints that it was a glorification of the Ku Klux Klan. |
| 3 | Ended her relationship with George Jean Nathan after finding out that he was Jewish. This was despite the fact that Nathan had converted to Protestantism and he shared Gish's right-wing views. |
| 4 | The debut album of the rock band Smashing Pumpkins was named "Gish" after her. |
| 5 | She was filmed for a scene in Woody Allen's Zelig (1983). She scolded legendary director of photography Gordon Willis on his lighting set-up and, while the crew watched aghast, gave Willis step-by-step instructions on how to relight the scene. Willis complied. The scene did not make it into the final version of the film. |
| 6 | At her 1984 AFI Life Achievment Award ceremony, John Houseman claimed that she and her sister Dorothy Gish were offered the chance to buy the Sunset strip for $300. After considering the offer, they decided to spend the money for two dresses at the fashionable Bullock's department store instead. |
| 7 | She maintained a very close relationship with her sister Dorothy Gish, as well as with Mary Pickford, for her entire life. She never married or had children. |
| 8 | She was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution. |
| 9 | Left her entire estate, which was valued at several million dollars, to Helen Hayes. Hayes died 18 days after Gish. |
| 10 | In 1970, she wrote to congratulate California's First Lady Nancy Reagan after the Governor's wife likened anti-war protesters to Nazis in an interview. "Every time you and Ronnie open your mouths you echo my thoughts," Gish wrote. |
| 11 | Lillian was originally a member of the America First Committee, which advocated against US intervention in WII. It was not an uncommon position to be against America joining the war, with polls showing that 40% of Americans agreed at one point, but eventually apparent Nazi brutality made anti-war sentiment a radical opinion-one most infamously associated with the fascist sympathizing Charles Lindbergh. Gish was against any war due to her experience filming Hearts of the World, a WWI propaganda film, with Griffith in war-time France, in which she saw the horrors the Great War had unleashed. On why she opposed American involvement in WWII, Gish said "if I could save one American life and ruin my career in doing so, I would consider my career well lost." She resigned as a member of the committee several months before Pearl Harbor, and would later write a letter "I made War Propaganda" in Scribner's Commentator asking for forgiveness. After War was declared with Germany, any feelings of isolationism were seen as non-patriotic. Mary Pickford defended her: "This lady is as you and I are. She was merely against war". |
| 12 | She was taught how to shoot by notorious western outlaw Al J. Jennings, who was in one of her early films (after having served a long term in prison for train robbery). When John Huston and Burt Lancaster took her to the desert to teach her how to shoot for The Unforgiven (1960), they were astounded to discover she could shoot more accurately and faster than they did. She found that she liked shooting, and over the years had developed into an expert shot. |
| 13 | She and Dorothy Gish both started working for D.W. Griffith in the early days of American Mutoscope & Biograph. While it has been claimed that Griffith was immediately infatuated with Lillian, in their first film for him, An Unseen Enemy (1912), he thought they were twins. According to Lillian's autobiography, he had to tie different colored hair ribbons on the girls to tell them apart and give them direction: "Red, you hear a strange noise. Run to your sister. Blue, you're scared too. Look toward me, where the camera is.". |
| 14 | She was of English, French and German heritage. |
| 15 | In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Lillian Gish #19 on their list of 50 Greatest American Female Screen Legends. |
| 16 | Lillian and Mary Pickford were childhood friends, but Mary tried to never be left alone with Lillian--remembering her mother's superstitious belief that "the good die young", Mary was in constant fear that Lillian would drop dead at any moment. |
| 17 | She held director D.W. Griffith in such high regard that, up until her death in 1993, she would always refer to him as "Mr. Griffith". |
| 18 | While shooting Way Down East (1920), she 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. |
| 19 | John Gilbert was infatuated with her, and would mess up his "love scenes" with her in the filming of La Bohème (1926) on purpose, so he could keep kissing her. |
| 20 | After her amicable parting with D.W. Griffith she joined Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1925, but was unceremoniously dumped when Greta Garbo emerged as a star. Considered a "sexless antique", she turned to radio and her first love, the theater. Ironically, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer had Garbo on the set of The Scarlet Letter (1926) every day to watch Gish work as part of her apprenticeship. |
| 21 | She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1720 Vine Street in Hollywood, California on February 8, 1960. |
| 22 | Related, on her mother's side, to United States President Zachary Taylor. |
| 23 | She once autographed an 8mm copy of her film The Battle of Elderbush Gulch (1913) for a young filmmaker named Harry McDevitt. |
| 24 | Every year on Gish's birthdate, October 14, New York's Museum of Modern Art shows at least one of her films or television performances. |
| 25 | Received the American Film Institute Lifetime Achievement Award (1984). |
| 26 | Following his death, she was interred beside her sister Dorothy Gish at Saint Bartholomew's Episcopal Church in New York City. |
| 27 | On June 11, 1976, the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Film Theater was dedicated on the Bowling Green State University campus in Bowling Green, Ohio. |
| 28 | Sister of Dorothy Gish. Daughter of actress Mary Gish. |
Actress
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Cry for Help | 1912 | Short | The Maid |
| The Burglar's Dilemma | 1912 | Short | Birthday Wellwisher |
| The New York Hat | 1912 | Short | Customer in Shop / Outside Church |
| Brutality | 1912 | Short | At Theatre |
| The Informer | 1912 | Short | Undetermined Secondary Role |
| My Baby | 1912 | Short | |
| Gold and Glitter | 1912 | Short | The Young Woman |
| The Musketeers of Pig Alley | 1912 | Short | The Little Lady |
| The Painted Lady | 1912 | Short | Belle at Ice Cream Festival (uncredited) |
| The One She Loved | 1912 | Short | |
| In the Aisles of the Wild | 1912 | Short | The Younger Daughter |
| So Near, Yet So Far | 1912 | Short | A Friend |
| Two Daughters of Eve | 1912 | Short | In Theatre Crowd |
| An Unseen Enemy | 1912 | Short | The Sister (older) |
| The Whales of August | 1987 | Sarah Webber | |
| Sweet Liberty | 1986 | Cecelia Burgess | |
| American Playhouse | 1986 | TV Series | Mrs Loftus |
| Hobson's Choice | 1983 | TV Movie | Miss Molly Winkle |
| Hambone and Hillie | 1983 | Hillie Radcliffe | |
| Thin Ice | 1981 | TV Movie | Grandmother |
| The Love Boat | 1981 | TV Series | Mrs. Williams |
| Sparrow | 1978 | TV Movie | Widow |
| A Wedding | 1978 | Nettie Sloan | |
| Twin Detectives | 1976 | TV Movie | Billy Jo Haskins |
| Arsenic and Old Lace | 1969 | TV Movie | Martha Brewster |
| The Comedians | 1967 | Mrs. Smith | |
| Warning Shot | 1967 | Alice Willows | |
| Follow Me, Boys! | 1966 | Hetty Seibert | |
| The Alfred Hitchcock Hour | 1964 | TV Series | Bessie Carnby |
| The Defenders | 1962-1964 | TV Series | Mrs. Cooper / Louisa Clarendon |
| Breaking Point | 1963 | TV Series | Stella Manville |
| Mr. Novak | 1963 | TV Series | Maude Phipps |
| Theatre '62 | 1961 | TV Series | |
| The Spiral Staircase | 1961 | TV Movie | Mrs. Warren |
| The Unforgiven | 1960 | Mattilda Zachary | |
| Play of the Week | 1960 | TV Series | Dolly Talbo |
| Orders to Kill | 1958 | Mrs. Summers | |
| The Alcoa Hour | 1956 | TV Series | Esther Crampton |
| Ford Star Jubilee | 1956 | TV Series | Mary Todd Lincoln |
| Playwrights '56 | 1955 | TV Series | Mrs. Compson |
| Kraft Theatre | 1955 | TV Series | |
| The Night of the Hunter | 1955 | Rachel Cooper | |
| The Cobweb | 1955 | Victoria Inch | |
| Campbell Summer Soundstage | 1954 | TV Series | Miss Harrington |
| Robert Montgomery Presents | 1951-1954 | TV Series | |
| Christmas Festival Hour of Music | 1953 | TV Movie | |
| The Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse | 1949-1953 | TV Series | Carrie Watts / Abby |
| The Trip to Bountiful | 1953 | TV Movie | Carrie Watts |
| Schlitz Playhouse | 1952 | TV Series | Grandma Moses |
| Celanese Theatre | 1951 | TV Series | Sister Christina |
| The Ford Theatre Hour | 1949 | TV Series | Mrs. Midget |
| Portrait of Jennie | 1948 | Mother Mary of Mercy | |
| Duel in the Sun | 1946 | Laura Belle McCanles | |
| Miss Susie Slagle's | 1946 | Miss Susie Slagle | |
| Top Man | 1943 | Beth Warren | |
| Commandos Strike at Dawn | 1942 | Mrs. Bergesen | |
| His Double Life | 1933 | Alice Chalice | |
| One Romantic Night | 1930 | Princess Alexandra | |
| The Wind | 1928 | Letty | |
| The Enemy | 1927 | Pauli Arndt | |
| Annie Laurie | 1927 | Annie Laurie | |
| The Scarlet Letter | 1926 | Hester Prynne | |
| La Bohème | 1926 | Mimi | |
| Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ | 1925 | Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited) | |
| Romola | 1924 | Romola | |
| The White Sister | 1923 | Angela Chiaromonte | |
| Orphans of the Storm | 1921 | Henriette Girard | |
| Way Down East | 1920 | Anna Moore | |
| The Greatest Question | 1919 | Nellie Jarvis | |
| True Heart Susie | 1919 | True Heart Susie | |
| Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl | 1919 | Lucy - The Girl (as Miss Lillian Gish) | |
| A Romance of Happy Valley | 1919 | Jennie Timberlake | |
| The Greatest Thing in Life | 1918 | Jeannette Peret | |
| The Great Love | 1918 | Susie Broadplains | |
| Hearts of the World | 1918 | The Girl - Marie Stephenson | |
| Souls Triumphant | 1917 | Lillian Vale | |
| The House Built Upon Sand | 1916 | Evelyn Dare | |
| The Children Pay | 1916 | Millicent | |
| Diane of the Follies | 1916 | Diane | |
| Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages | 1916 | The Woman Who Rocks the Cradle / Eternal Mother | |
| An Innocent Magdalene | 1916 | Dorothy Raleigh | |
| Sold for Marriage | 1916 | Marfa | |
| Daphne and the Pirate | 1916 | Daphne La Tour | |
| Pathways of Life | 1916 | Short | |
| The Lily and the Rose | 1915 | Mary Randolph | |
| Captain Macklin | 1915 | Short | Beatrice |
| Enoch Arden | 1915 | Short | Annie Lee |
| The Lost House | 1915 | Short | Dosia Dale |
| The Birth of a Nation | 1915 | Elsie - Stoneman's Daughter | |
| His Lesson | 1915 | Short | Participant in Mob Scene (uncredited) |
| A Duel for Love | 1914 | Short | |
| The Sisters | 1914 | Short | May |
| The Folly of Anne | 1914 | Short | Anne |
| The Tear That Burned | 1914 | Short | Anita - the Truant |
| Man's Enemy | 1914 | Short | Grace Lisle |
| The Angel of Contention | 1914 | Short | Nettie - the Angel |
| Lord Chumley | 1914 | Short | Eleanor Butterworth |
| The Rebellion of Kitty Belle | 1914 | Short | Kitty Belle |
| Home, Sweet Home | 1914 | Payne's Sweetheart | |
| The Quicksands | 1914/I | Short | |
| The Battle of the Sexes | 1914 | Jane Andrews, the daughter | |
| The Hunchback | 1914/I | Short | The Orphan - as an Adult |
| Judith of Bethulia | 1914 | The Young Mother | |
| The Green-Eyed Devil | 1914 | Short | Mary Miller |
| The Conscience of Hassan Bey | 1913 | Short | The Rugmaker's Daughter |
| The Battle of Elderbush Gulch | 1913 | Short | Melissa Harlow |
| Madonna of the Storm | 1913 | Short | The Mother |
| So Runs the Way | 1913 | Short | Fred's Wife |
| A Modest Hero | 1913 | Short | The Wife |
| A Woman in the Ultimate | 1913 | Short | Verda |
| An Indian's Loyalty | 1913 | Short | The Ranchero's Daughter |
| During the Round-Up | 1913 | Short | The Ranchero's Daughter |
| The Mothering Heart | 1913 | Short | The Young Wife |
| A Timely Interception | 1913 | Short | The Farmer's Daughter |
| Just Gold | 1913 | Short | The Sweetheart |
| The House of Darkness | 1913 | Short | The Nurse |
| The Lady and the Mouse | 1913 | Short | The First Sister Woman |
| The Left-Handed Man | 1913 | Short | The Old Soldier's Daughter |
| A Misunderstood Boy | 1913 | Short | The Daughter |
| The Unwelcome Guest | 1913 | Short | At Auction (uncredited) |
| Oil and Water | 1913 | Short | In First Audience (uncredited) |
Writer
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Silver Glory | 1951 | TV Movie | |
| Remodeling Her Husband | 1920 | scenario - as Dorothy Elizabeth Carter / story - as Dorothy Elizabeth Carter | |
| The Greatest Thing in Life | 1918 | story |
Soundtrack
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hometown Legend | 2002 | performer: "Leaning on the Everlasting Arms" | |
| The Night of the Hunter | 1955 | performer: "Leaning on the Everlasting Arms" 1887 - uncredited |
Director
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Remodeling Her Husband | 1920 |
Producer
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Silver Glory | 1951 | TV Movie producer |
Miscellaneous
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages | 1916 | research assistant - uncredited |
Thanks
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Silent Feminists: America's First Women Directors | 1993 | Documentary special thanks | |
| Day for Night | 1973 | dedicatee |
Self
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Et la femme créa Hollywood | 2016 | Documentary | |
| Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood | 1987 | TV Special documentary | Herself |
| All-Star Party for 'Dutch' Reagan | 1985 | TV Special | Herself |
| Night of 100 Stars II | 1985 | TV Movie | Herself |
| This Is Your Life | 1985 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
| In Concert at the Met | 1984 | TV Special | Herself - Host |
| AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Lillian Gish | 1984 | TV Special documentary | Herself - Guest of Honor |
| Lillian Gish | 1983 | Documentary | Herself |
| The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts | 1982 | TV Special | Herself - Honoree |
| CBS Early Morning News | 1982 | TV Series | Herself |
| The 36th Annual Tony Awards | 1982 | TV Special | Herself - Presenter: Best Play |
| Night of 100 Stars | 1982 | TV Special | Herself |
| A Gift of Music | 1981 | TV Special | Herself |
| The 53rd Annual Academy Awards | 1981 | TV Special | Herself - Presenter: Best Picture |
| Over Easy | 1980 | TV Series | Herself |
| The Merv Griffin Show | 1971-1980 | TV Series | Herself - Guest |
| Hollywood | 1980 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Herself |
| Hollywood's Diamond Jubilee | 1978 | TV Special | Herself - Interview |
| The Mike Douglas Show | 1971-1978 | TV Series | Herself - Actress / Herself - Guest |
| Hollywood Greats | 1978 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
| Dinah! | 1978 | TV Series | Herself - Guest |
| The Fim Society of Lincoln Center Tribute to George Cukor | 1978 | TV Movie | Herself |
| The Carol Burnett Show | 1978 | TV Series | Herself - Audience Member |
| AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Henry Fonda | 1978 | TV Special documentary | Herself |
| Tomorrow Coast to Coast | 1975 | TV Series | Herself - Guest |
| D.W. Griffith | 1975 | TV Movie documentary | Herself |
| Film '72 | 1974 | TV Series | Herself |
| The 1974 Annual Entertainment Hall of Fame Awards | 1974 | TV Special | Herself |
| The David Frost Show | 1969-1972 | TV Series | Herself - Guest |
| The 43rd Annual Academy Awards | 1971 | TV Special | Herself - Honorary Award Recipient |
| Langlois | 1970 | Documentary | Herself |
| The Joey Bishop Show | 1969 | TV Series | Herself - Guest |
| The Comedians in Africa | 1967 | Documentary short | Herself (uncredited) |
| The Great Director | 1966 | TV Movie documentary | Herself |
| Mrs. Winchester's House | 1963 | TV Movie documentary | Narrator (voice) |
| Howard K. Smith | 1962 | TV Series | Herself - Guest |
| The DuPont Show of the Week | 1962 | TV Series | Herself |
| The Ed Sullivan Show | 1955-1961 | TV Series | Catherine Lynch / Herself |
| The 15th Annual Tony Awards | 1961 | TV Special | Herself - Accepting Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play |
| The 11th Annual Tony Awards | 1957 | TV Special | Herself - Presenter |
| 1955 Motion Picture Theatre Celebration | 1955 | Short documentary | Herself (uncredited) |
| Person to Person | 1954 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
| Wonderful Town, U.S.A. | 1951 | TV Series | Herself |
| The Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse | 1951 | TV Series | Herself |
| Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 17 | 1923 | Documentary short | Herself |
| From Farm to Fame | 1922 | Short | Herself |
| Screen Snapshots, Series 1, No. 20 | 1921 | Documentary short | Herself |
| Lillian Gish in a Liberty Loan Appeal | 1918 | Short | Herself |
Archive Footage
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women | 2014 | Documentary | Herself - Interviewee |
| Arena | 2012 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
| Night Hunter | 2011 | Short | |
| Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies | 2008 | Documentary | Herself |
| Blue Skies Beyond the Looking Glass | 2008 | Short | |
| Bienvenue | 2007 | Documentary | Herself |
| Never Apologize | 2007 | Documentary | Herself |
| VM Show Vol. 2 | 2005 | TV Series | Rachel Cooper |
| Classified X | 1998 | TV Movie documentary | Herself |
| Star Power: The Creation of United Artists | 1998 | Video documentary | Lucy - The Girl |
| The Making of 'The Birth of a Nation' | 1998 | Video documentary short | Herself / Elsie Stoneman |
| The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies | 1995 | TV Movie documentary | Herself |
| A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies | 1995 | TV Movie documentary | Lucy - The Girl, Broken Blossoms (uncredited) |
| Citizen Langlois | 1995 | TV Movie documentary | Herself |
| Moving Pictures | 1995 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
| The 66th Annual Academy Awards | 1994 | TV Special | Herself - Memorial Tribute |
| American Masters | 1988-1993 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
| Hollywood Mavericks | 1990 | Documentary | Lucy - The Girl |
| AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Jack Lemmon | 1988 | TV Special documentary | Herself |
| Greta Garbo: The Temptress and the Clown | 1986 | TV Movie documentary | Herself |
| Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color | 1981 | TV Series | Hetty Seibert |
| Black Shadows on the Silver Screen | 1975 | TV Movie documentary | Herself (uncredited) |
| The Moving Picture Boys in the Great War | 1975 | Documentary | Herself |
| The Dick Cavett Show | 1971 | TV Series | Herself |
| Lionpower from MGM | 1967 | Short | Mrs. Smith (uncredited) |
| The Love Goddesses | 1965 | Documentary | Herself |
| Hallelujah the Hills | 1963 | Anna Moore (uncredited) | |
| The Great Chase | 1962 | Documentary | |
| Hollywood: The Golden Years | 1961 | TV Movie documentary | Herself (uncredited) |
| The Legend of Rudolph Valentino | 1961 | Video documentary | Herself |
| Movies Golden Age | 1961 | TV Movie documentary | Romola |
| Project XX | 1957-1961 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
| Film Fun | 1955 | Short | Herself |
| Flicker Flashbacks No. 2, Series 5 | 1947 | Documentary short | Herself (uncredited) |
| Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 12 | 1939 | Documentary short | Herself |
| The Movies March On | 1939 | Short documentary | Elsie - Stoneman's Daughter |
| Fashions in Love | 1936 | Documentary short | |
| The Movie Album | 1932 | Documentary short | Herself |
Won Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | OFTA Film Hall of Fame | Online Film & Television Association | Acting | |
| 1987 | Special Achievement Award | London Critics Circle Film Awards | ||
| 1987 | NBR Award | National Board of Review, USA | Best Actress | The Whales of August (1987) |
| 1987 | Career Achievement Award | National Board of Review, USA | ||
| 1984 | Life Achievement Award | American Film Institute, USA | ||
| 1983 | Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters | Order of Arts and Letters, France | On 12 July, 1983. | |
| 1979 | Crystal Award | Women in Film Crystal Awards | ||
| 1971 | Honorary Award | Academy Awards, USA | For superlative artistry and for distinguished contribution to the progress of motion pictures. | |
| 1960 | Star on the Walk of Fame | Walk of Fame | Motion Picture | On 8 February 1960. At 1720 Vine Street. |
Nominated Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | Independent Spirit Award | Independent Spirit Awards | Best Female Lead | The Whales of August (1987) |
| 1968 | Golden Globe | Golden Globes, USA | Best Supporting Actress | The Comedians (1967) |
| 1947 | Oscar | Academy Awards, USA | Best Actress in a Supporting Role | Duel in the Sun (1946) |
Known for movies
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
as Rachel Cooper
The Birth of a Nation (1915)
as Elsie - Stoneman's Daughter
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916)
as The Woman Who Rocks the Cradle / Eternal Mother
Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl (1919)
as Lucy - The Girl