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Griffith, D.W. (director)
Lillian Gish (starring)
Way Down East
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Los Angeles: United Artists, 1920. Original souvenir program book for the classic 1920 silent film, considered today to be one of the best films made by either D.W. Griffith or Lillian Gish. SIGNED by both in black holograph ink on the first leaf next to their respective photographs.
A story of love, betrayal, tolerance, and redemption, leading to an ending on a frozen river that remains one of the most famous sequences in film history. The two major set pieces in the film were shot on location, without stuntmen, in Long Island and in White River Junction, Vermont. Gish later wrote that in one scene during the Vermont shoot, her hair became frozen solid from lying in the river water and snapped off with the ice.
Oblong saddle-stitched wrappers, 11 x 8 inches, 12 pages. Two vertical folds from having once been folded twice, some fray to the wrapper edges, otherwise completely intact, with a beautiful full-color front wrapper and a full-color middle spread. [Book #123834]
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