An American stage, screen, and television actress whose film acting career spanned 75 years, from 1912 to 1987. She was a prominent film star of the 1910s and 1920s, particularly associated with the films of D.W. Griffith, including her leading role in the groundbreaking film "Birth of a Nation" in 1915. The American Film Institute (AFI) named Gish 17th among the greatest female stars of all time.
Lillian Gish became known as the "First Lady of the Silent Screen."
A Shackteau is a humble, weather-beaten, structurally questionable shelter located in a spectacular or highly coveted place—Wales, Jackson Hole, Sun Valley, Crested Butte, coastal Maine, the Alps—where the building itself may be worth almost nothing, but the dirt, view, access, and mythology make it absurdly valuable.
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Shackteâu - We thought it was an abandoned shed until the realtor called it a rare alpine Shackteâu with unobstructed views and listed it for $2 million.