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6 de oct. de 2023 · In the film, Gish’s love affair with Colman is disrupted when he travels abroad on a foreign mission. When he is believed to have been killed by terrorists, Gish enters a convent, takes her vows, and becomes a hospital nun, or white sister. When Colman returns, he pleads with Gish to break her vows. She refuses.
After his performance as a brutal gangster who pushes Norma Shearer around in A Free Soul (1931) and a burly plantation overseer in Red Dust (1932), Clark Gable's screen popularity began to soar but The White Sister, which was made the following year, failed to exploit his strengths.Instead, it cast him woefully against type as a romantic Italian soldier in a screen version of F. Marion ...
THE WHITE SISTER. Directed by. Henry King. United States, 1923. Silent, Drama, Romance. 143. Synopsis. A young woman becomes a nun when she believes her sweetheart has been killed, but things get complicated when he returns alive. Synopsis.
The White Sister is a 1923 American silent drama film directed by Henry King. Media in category "The White Sister (1923 film)" The following 6 files are in this category, out of 6 total. Lillian Gish The White Sister Henry King 1923.jpg 1,800 × 1,368; 535 KB.
White Sister, The (1923) *** (out of 4) Adaptation of the Francis Marion Crawford novel, this screen version has Lillian Gish playing Angela Chiaromonte, the woman who gets cut out of her rightful inheritance by her evil step sister (Gail Kane). She then suffers a second heartache when the man she loves (Ronald Colman) is reported dead. With nowhere else to turn she decides to become a nun ...
Visa denna sida på svenska på Film.nu Lillian Gish is the daughter of a rich Italian count who is killed in a fall from his horse. Though Lillian stands to inherit a large estate, her older half-sister burns the will and thus inherits the property herself, throwing Lillian into poverty.
The White Sister was silent screen phenomenon Lillian Gish's first film away from the auspices of D. W. Griffith, the pioneering director who had cast her initially in The Unseen Enemy (1912) - a daft short that's a little bit like Panic Room - elicited her first truly great performance in The Mothering Heart (1913), and then collaborated with her on epic smashes like The Birth of a Nation ...
