The Birth of the Movies
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Directed byDelbert Mann
Written by
- Robert Alan Aurthur
- H.R. Hays
Based onmemoirs of Lillian Gish
Original air dateApril 22, 1951
| "The Birth of the Movies" | |
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| Philco Television Playhouse episode | |
| Directed by | Delbert Mann |
| Written by |
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| Based on | memoirs of Lillian Gish |
| Original air date | April 22, 1951 |
The Birth of the Movies is a 1951 episode of the TV series The Philco Television Playhouse. [1][2]
The early days of Lillian Gish in the movies.
Cast
- Lillian Gish as Narrator
- Jean Pearson as Young Lillian Gish
- John Newland as D.W. Griffith
- Paul Mann as Billy Bitzer
- Bruce Gordon as Burton
- Robert F. Simon as Merril
- Ben Lackland as Pickett
- Brandon Peters as Billings
- Gordon Peters as Crawford
- Richard Abbott as West