Bowling Green State University has removed actress Lillian Gish’s name from a campus theater because of her part in D.W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation. Gish starred in the 1915 silent fi…
It is considered a landmark of film history, with many firsts – first close-up, fade-outs, and the longest film made to that point. However, it is full of racist imagery and plot lines, and venerates the Ku Klux Klan, who ride in to save the day.But this week, such stars as James Earl Jones, Helen Mirren, Martin Scorsese and several leading film scholarscalling for Bowling Green to retain Gish’s name on the theater. She shared billing with her sister on the theater name.
The letter calls the removal “unfortunate and unjust. Doing so makes her a scapegoat in a broader political debate. A university should be a bastion of free speech. This is a supreme ‘teachable moment’ if it can be handled with a more nuanced sense of history.” The university pushed back, quoting Gish from a 1983 interview with a Bowling Green publication. “Lillian Gish talked about actors being accountable for the roles they choose: ‘I feel strongly that actors and actresses today need to take responsibility for what they say and do in film, even if they are only acting. They don’t have to do the script … Film is the most powerful thing that has been invented in this century.
“Upon reviewing the totality of Lillian Gish’s acting career, no evidence was found that she denounced or distanced herself from director D. W. Griffith or her link from the film Bowling Green claimed that campus leaders have decided that Gish’s connection to the film sent a hostile messages to some students.
“Bowling Green State University has a primary responsibility to serve its students, faculty and staff, and an obligation to create an inclusive learning environment. That obligation outweighs the university’s small part in honoring the Gish sisters’ legacy,” the statement said.
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