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D.W. Griffith, Biograph, June 1913, two reels. Lillian Gish is the young wife who tends a garden and a puppy, then a marriage that sours when Walter Miller's husband takes up with an idle woman at a club. She goes home to her mother (Kate Bruce) and has the baby. G.W. Bitzer on camera. A print survives at MoMA. Gish plays the grief in small gestures, against the usual Biograph semaphore.
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Two reels and one of the first parts that let her carry the grief. A garden, a puppy, a husband at a club, and Gish underplaying while the Biograph company around her is still waving. Watch her in the garden after she knows. The face does what the titles were for.
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