can we please make class, grace and intelligence fashionable again? I'm so tired of the shallow, mind-numbingly brainless talk and tackiness of modern 'celebrity'. Lillian is absolutely divine! What a beautiful, articulate lady!
She was my Great Aunt Lil. She was exactly the same in-person. It's tripping me out to see her on tv. (She had no way of showing me all her films or interviews in the 80's/90's.)
I love Lillian Gish, and what Bowling Green University done to remove her and Dorothy Gosh’s names off their theater is a mockery. Yes, they star in the Birth of an Nation which have racial tones but it was an time , unfortunately, racism was extremely prevalent in our country and although some of the people behind the movie were racist, that doesn’t mean the Gish sisters weren’t. In my heart I don’t believe they were. The movie should be used as an tool to teach acceptance and not an weapon against two extraordinary actresses who are no longer here on earth to defend themselves. Restore their names.
I agree totally ! Lillian and Dorothy didn't write "The Birth of a Nation". They were simply playing characters ! After all, Jefferson & Washington both owned slaves ! It's futile to try to "erase" history....it can't be done. The thing to do is to learn from the past. What a totally ridiculous thing to do to remove the Gish sisters name off anything. If Lillian was a racist why was she so gracious when she met Mr Page on this Dick Cavett episode ?
@@jubalcalif9100 yeah, no racist has ever been nice to someone they look down upon for their skin tone. You could be right, but your justification is dumb.
there is now doubt, that the film was informed by D. W. Griffith's southern/ confederate roots, which, like most Southern/ Confederate' families, he grossly over sentimentalized. the Gish sisters were actors, they had nothing to do with the content of that film, anymore than by appearing in "Goodfellas made Joe Peschi an violent sociopath.
Lillian is my favorite actress of all time. Even she though was not immune to Hollywood's vanity. She lied about her age, probably because Griffith would have thought her too old. She was actually about 19 when she started working for him.
@@Michaelneiss agreed. and the way he just sods off at the end when the others are chatting to eachother. There's a difference between being an eccentric and being a dickhead. I learned everything I needed to know about him the second i saw how he treated that poor animal. I dread to think how he treated his wife. What an obnoxious, self-aggrandizing individual.
@@ImTash Not just how he treated the animal, but how he was obviously trying to get an "EEK!" reaction out of Ms. Gish. She, being the grand lady and the trouper she was, put the kibosh on that idea immediately.
Lived the same age as my great-aunt, long life of 99 years. Auntie never married either. I think with Lillian seeing her mothers pain having a drunk husband who disappeared Lillian maybe was scared that could happen to her too, if she married. Dick had the best talk show, enjoy your retirement Sir.
It's a shame, no one ever figured out how wonderful it would have been to have screened her silent classics with her sitting there adding first hand commentary, the back stories if you will, this was just a sampling, and I must say, what little was presented was fascinating.
Dali's message has always been "look at me!". And then to see how long he can hold your attention while appealing to as large of an audience as possible.
I use to love watching the dick cavett show,his gust stars and his questions were straight to the point where he never pissed of the worst of guest stars who were hard to interviewed,he was a great interviewer,👏👏✌👏
Heavens to Murgatroid ! That was rather rude for Mr Dali to simply toss that anteater into Ms Gish's lap. I loved the interview with Ms Gish but the interview with Mr Dali was totally bizarre & most of the time unintelligible due to his very heavy accent. A gifted artist, of course, but what an eccentric individual (to say the least). THANKS for sharing this groovy "blast from the past" with us ! :-)
Your accent is unintelligible to others. I guess they'd think you were bizarre and uneducated. You sound like you think you are better than others because of where you are from.
@@SickDaddy Gee, how's the view up there in your ivory tower ? At no point did I say I was better than Mr Dali or anyone else. I was stating simple fact: his accent was difficult to understand. And I NEVER wrote that he was "uneducated". YOU are the one that comes across as judgemental and "holier than thou". As Waldo Lydecker once said to Laura Hunt, "kindly take this character analysis elsewhere. You begin to bore me".
Jindal I taut it was so funny when the ant eater went to ur man beside Lillian and then to her she kept the cool , good on her she had no freaked expression, 👍👍👍👌✌,👏👏👏😘😘🌹🌸🌻🌈☀,love you Lillian rest in peace God bless you amen,🌹😘👏
Dali made complete sense to me in this interview. Different cultures = different approaches to the exploration of life and what is and what isn't explainable.
What a lady she was.and a great silent screen actress she was in the silent movies young at the same time as mary pick ford.but mary made fame quicker then lullian and richer she also was the first ladie mary to become one of the first femake producers to produce her own movie's in these days it was never heard of but talkies were starting to come in. not alot of silent screen actress+actressess could speak english or proper English but mary pickford asked lillian to act with her whit which made them famous.and the rest is history.there both dead now like the other silent screen actors .rest in peace to them Godbless them amen.there not forgotten. 🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌻🌻🌻💐💐🌹🙏🙏🙏🙏
Lillian was such a lady ,I loved the old silent screen movies and actresses+actors of that time ,Rest in peace to Lillian others I watched ,AMEN as for Salvador Dali he had some mustache and as I heard his parties were far out,✌✋😨😜😨😜😨😜😨😜💊🍄☀🌈😂
Gish's description of acting - very truthful. Liked her motto - we create our own reality. Dali was hilarious. The anteater traipsing around set was hilarious. Reminded me of the Slough Scene at the Department of Motor Vehicles in Zootopia. Cavett had a wonderfully dry sense of humor. This show was featuring a set of contrasting personalities which makes one interesting watch.
Salvator Dali is from Catalonia? Sooooo … anteaters are angelic? (And rhinos?) I hope that one was potty trained. Poor Mr. Page and Miss Gish. What a tremendous energy he had! Oh! That’s the great Satchel Page! He was tall!
Dali was a provocateur! And a good friend of Walt Disney. They both connected with the surrealism in each other's work. Unfortunately, no mention of Dali's film with Luis Bunuel, Un Chien Andalou (1929) considered a masterpiece of film making. ruclips.net/video/054OIVlmjUM/видео.html Dali makes a cameo as one of the priests, dragged along with the piano.
Leave history as it was. If there are ill feelings that means you have internal conflict and healing to do. Changing the past is not possible and it should be remembered.
One complaint however: Cavett should have asked Gish how she felt about starring in Griffith's incredibly racist "Birth of a Nation". Especially with Satchel Paige sitting there, who'd been cheated out of a primetime baseball career by the kind of racism celebrated in Griffith's epic movie.
Un ejemplo de cómo un hombre puede hacer el ridículo y aún y así apoderarse de una entrevista, mientras las dos personas interesantes, restan expectantes e ignoradas. Qué lastima de entrevista y qué perdida de oportunidad de dialogar con una gran actriz Lillian G, mientras un "señoro" no para de decir chorradas... menudo patán egocéntrico... pero that's live my friend.
13:35 I so admire Lillian Gish for stepping in between Salvador Dali and that poor little anteater. Dali was really little more than a self-centred bucket of shit ...
She didn't step between them -- he dumped the animal on her lap, obviously hoping to scare her and create pandemonium. Heh! Didn't work out the way you wanted, eh, Sal?
can we please make class, grace and intelligence fashionable again? I'm so tired of the shallow, mind-numbingly brainless talk and tackiness of modern 'celebrity'. Lillian is absolutely divine! What a beautiful, articulate lady!
Can you imagine her on the Tonight Show playing beer pong with Jimmy Fallon? (To her credit she probably would have done it.)
Agreed!
She was a republican maybe has something to do with that, actors are all now woke pussies.
She is wonderful. ❤️
We can bring all of those back except racism 😊
I noticed how the actresses from the golden age of cinema never lost their glamour even as they mature in age. Lilian looks amazing
This is incredible. She lived a long life and was so articulate here at age 78, telling us about those early days of cinema.
She would have been almost 80 here but looks a good 30 years younger! My favorite actress I love all of her films.
She was my Great Aunt Lil. She was exactly the same in-person. It's tripping me out to see her on tv. (She had no way of showing me all her films or interviews in the 80's/90's.)
@@brianbaker7771 That is so great that you are related to her!
Amen to that !! :-)
No way! That’s amazing - being related to a woman who co-created cinematic acting!
The days when culture was on tv
And good manners and stimulating conversation !
Lillian Gish and Salvador Dali together.
This is a great pleasant rare.
Thanks for sharing.
I love Lillian Gish, and what Bowling Green University done to remove her and Dorothy Gosh’s names off their theater is a mockery. Yes, they star in the Birth of an Nation which have racial tones but it was an time , unfortunately, racism was extremely prevalent in our country and although some of the people behind the movie were racist, that doesn’t mean the Gish sisters weren’t. In my heart I don’t believe they were. The movie should be used as an tool to teach acceptance and not an weapon against two extraordinary actresses who are no longer here on earth to defend themselves. Restore their names.
It's a disgrace.
I agree totally ! Lillian and Dorothy didn't write "The Birth of a Nation". They were simply playing characters ! After all, Jefferson & Washington both owned slaves ! It's futile to try to "erase" history....it can't be done. The thing to do is to learn from the past. What a totally ridiculous thing to do to remove the Gish sisters name off anything. If Lillian was a racist why was she so gracious when she met Mr Page on this Dick Cavett episode ?
@@jubalcalif9100 yeah, no racist has ever been nice to someone they look down upon for their skin tone. You could be right, but your justification is dumb.
there is now doubt, that the film was informed by D. W. Griffith's southern/ confederate roots, which, like most Southern/ Confederate' families, he grossly over sentimentalized. the Gish sisters were actors, they had nothing to do with the content of that film, anymore than by appearing in "Goodfellas made Joe Peschi an violent sociopath.
That the university kept her papers and the endowment is the height of hypocrisy.
She played 'Mrs Cooper' in "Night of the Hunter", one of my most favorite heroines-characters in a movie ... Ty for posting :)
What an amazing presence, her facial expressions, her direct connection to heaven...
Could Lillian Gish and Dali be any different? She is pure, direct communication and humiity and he is pure showman.
Love you lillian .you were such a lady.GodBless You.🙏🕊🦋💖🌹You shall never be forgotten from the silent screen movies.Amen🕊
Lillian is my favorite actress of all time. Even she though was not immune to Hollywood's vanity. She lied about her age, probably because Griffith would have thought her too old. She was actually about 19 when she started working for him.
And you know this, how?
They found her birth certificate. She was born in 1893.
Lillian Gish (Oct 14, 1893 - Feb 27, 1993)
I love Lillian says ant eater is frightened. It kind of dashes Dali hard effort to be unique.
I couldn't agree more. Dali behaves like an a*hole
@@Michaelneiss agreed. and the way he just sods off at the end when the others are chatting to eachother. There's a difference between being an eccentric and being a dickhead. I learned everything I needed to know about him the second i saw how he treated that poor animal. I dread to think how he treated his wife. What an obnoxious, self-aggrandizing individual.
@@ImTash 👍
@@ImTash From what I understand, his wife Gala wielded significant power in that marriage.
@@ImTash Not just how he treated the animal, but how he was obviously trying to get an "EEK!" reaction out of Ms. Gish. She, being the grand lady and the trouper she was, put the kibosh on that idea immediately.
Lived the same age as my great-aunt, long life of 99 years. Auntie never married either. I think with Lillian seeing her mothers pain having a drunk husband who disappeared Lillian maybe was scared that could happen to her too, if she married.
Dick had the best talk show, enjoy your retirement Sir.
It's a shame, no one ever figured out how wonderful it would have been to have screened her silent classics with her sitting there adding first hand commentary, the back stories if you will, this was just a sampling, and I must say, what little was presented was fascinating.
Dali seems completely bonkers... Well... He was a GENIUS. But Lillian Gish îs absolutely lovely and classy.
Lillian Gish is a wonder of intelligence, grace, wisdom, and loveliness. What poise! Whoever the guest w as before her was a Very Tall Man!
Beautiful lady.
How true ! Beautiful INSIDE and OUT ! A class act all the way !
She was beautiful woman and human being!
Satchel Paige, Lillian Gish, Salvator Dali, & an anteater- it sounds like the beginning of a joke.
Yes, they all walk into a bar, and...
So classy intelligent articulate
I have a notion to second that emotion !! :-)
Miss Gish spoke German, French, and Italian, too.
This is one of the very best DC shows I have ever seen! 👍👍. ❤️❤️❤️
Dali's message has always been "look at me!". And then to see how long he can hold your attention while appealing to as large of an audience as possible.
i am reading her biography written by Charles Affron. A great book .Saw her first silent movie of 1912 An unseen enemy. Enchanting
I use to love watching the dick cavett show,his gust stars and his questions were straight to the point where he never pissed of the worst of guest stars who were hard to interviewed,he was a great interviewer,👏👏✌👏
Omg when Dali tossed the ant eater on Gish was hilarious 😂
Sergio c ,me to ,she was. Cool about it ,✌👏💑
Thank you for sharing!
She has a lovely stateliness' about her here. My goodness she was gorgeous when she was young.
So much that we don't know about this woman's personal life I know that I'm related to her she's my 5th cousin only if I got to meet her in real life
But you can know Gary Steigerwalt.
SALVADOR DALI WAS SO FUNNY ,I LOVED HIM HE WAS VERY ECCENTRIC IN HIS WAY THAT ASTOUNDED AND SHOCKED PEOPLE ,REST IN PEACE TO SALVADOR,AMEN,👏😘🌹☀🌈🌻🌸👍✌👌
She is 78 y.o. here? Wow! I don't know this actress but that was interesting! I understand everything she says. Thank you for amazing video.
Heavens to Murgatroid ! That was rather rude for Mr Dali to simply toss that anteater into Ms Gish's lap. I loved the interview with Ms Gish but the interview with Mr Dali was totally bizarre & most of the time unintelligible due to his very heavy accent. A gifted artist, of course, but what an eccentric individual (to say the least). THANKS for sharing this groovy "blast from the past" with us ! :-)
Your accent is unintelligible to others. I guess they'd think you were bizarre and uneducated. You sound like you think you are better than others because of where you are from.
@@SickDaddy Gee, how's the view up there in your ivory tower ? At no point did I say I was better than Mr Dali or anyone else. I was stating simple fact: his accent was difficult to understand. And I NEVER wrote that he was "uneducated". YOU are the one that comes across as judgemental and "holier than thou". As Waldo Lydecker once said to Laura Hunt, "kindly take this character analysis elsewhere. You begin to bore me".
Ms Gish didn't even flinch. That woman had seen it all in her lifetime.
@@touche2584 As I so when I take off my hat, you make a GOOD POINT ! Thanks for your insightful comment ! :-)
Jindal I taut it was so funny when the ant eater went to ur man beside Lillian and then to her she kept the cool , good on her she had no freaked expression, 👍👍👍👌✌,👏👏👏😘😘🌹🌸🌻🌈☀,love you Lillian rest in peace God bless you amen,🌹😘👏
Poor Lillian having to deal with Dali. I had no idea he was so unintelligible.
Dali made complete sense to me in this interview. Different cultures = different approaches to the exploration of life and what is and what isn't explainable.
Why too dark?
Fun to watch Dali putting them all on.
She was 78
What a lady she was.and a great silent screen actress she was in the silent movies young at the same time as mary pick ford.but mary made fame quicker then lullian and richer she also was the first ladie mary to become one of the first femake producers to produce her own movie's in these days it was never heard of but talkies were starting to come in. not alot of silent screen actress+actressess could speak english or proper English but mary pickford asked lillian to act with her whit which made them famous.and the rest is history.there both dead now like the other silent screen actors .rest in peace to them Godbless them amen.there not forgotten. 🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌻🌻🌻💐💐🌹🙏🙏🙏🙏
Great seeing an interview with Lillian Gish, but I wish there was an interview with Mae Marsh, too. There is so little about her available.
Check out his interview with legendary stage actress Eva Le Gallienne!
excellent ******
Lillian was such a lady ,I loved the old silent screen movies and actresses+actors of that time ,Rest in peace to Lillian others I watched ,AMEN as for Salvador Dali he had some mustache and as I heard his parties were far out,✌✋😨😜😨😜😨😜😨😜💊🍄☀🌈😂
When Dali enters, the band plays "You're Clear Out of this World."
They should have played "Hello Dolly" ! Don't know if he'd have understood the pun, though.....
I wish we could go back....
I can't believe I just saw Salvador Dali throw an anteater at Lillian Gish.
Восхитительная женщина.
Gish's description of acting - very truthful. Liked her motto - we create our own reality. Dali was hilarious. The anteater traipsing around set was hilarious. Reminded me of the Slough Scene at the Department of Motor Vehicles in Zootopia. Cavett had a wonderfully dry sense of humor. This show was featuring a set of contrasting personalities which makes one interesting watch.
I wonder if cavett still has that Dali autograph and how much it's worth? !
Sadly Booth died in an early car accident as a passenger just when he was getting success.
A mais linda que já vi! 🇧🇷
Nunca viu ela.Não mente!
I love her movies , a very eligant lady
So true !
"I don't do drugs, I am drugs." -Salvator Dali
There is a video on RUclips of Salvador Dali's appearance on the television show What's My Line.
Mujer Divina.
Dali was describing fractals (cauliflower) before Mandelbrot coined the term.
Salvator Dali is from Catalonia? Sooooo … anteaters are angelic? (And rhinos?) I hope that one was potty trained. Poor Mr. Page and Miss Gish. What a tremendous energy he had! Oh! That’s the great Satchel Page! He was tall!
Maybe it's just me, but I found the anteater a lot more interesting than Salvator Dali talking in great detail about his mustache?.
Lovely Lillian Gish. There is no such description of movies in the Bible. Salvador... Un loco.
Is the interview with Satchel Paige available anywhere? I'd love to see that one, too.
why is he so rough with the poor anteater?
Dali was a provocateur! And a good friend of Walt Disney. They both connected with the surrealism in each other's work. Unfortunately, no mention of Dali's film with Luis Bunuel, Un Chien Andalou (1929) considered a masterpiece of film making. ruclips.net/video/054OIVlmjUM/видео.html
Dali makes a cameo as one of the priests, dragged along with the piano.
dude, that was mentioned when Cavett mentioned the eye ball slashing scene
WTF was Dali going on about?
That was incredible. What rhinoceros?
Leave history as it was. If there are ill feelings that means you have internal conflict and healing to do. Changing the past is not possible and it should be remembered.
One complaint however: Cavett should have asked Gish how she felt about starring in Griffith's incredibly racist "Birth of a Nation". Especially with Satchel Paige sitting there, who'd been cheated out of a primetime baseball career by the kind of racism celebrated in Griffith's epic movie.
Un ejemplo de cómo un hombre puede hacer el ridículo y aún y así apoderarse de una entrevista, mientras las dos personas interesantes, restan expectantes e ignoradas. Qué lastima de entrevista y qué perdida de oportunidad de dialogar con una gran actriz Lillian G, mientras un "señoro" no para de decir chorradas... menudo patán egocéntrico... pero that's live my friend.
13:35 I so admire Lillian Gish for stepping in between Salvador Dali and that poor little anteater. Dali was really little more than a self-centred bucket of shit ...
She didn't step between them -- he dumped the animal on her lap, obviously hoping to scare her and create pandemonium. Heh! Didn't work out the way you wanted, eh, Sal?
Dali. A real aristocrat.
Dalinean english... man Dali was a cringe fuckfest, i think he was like the Eric Andre of the 20th century.
Pretentious much, Dali?
Salvador Daly must have been a sadistic creep!