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2 days ago · Ron Song as Moon Kwan, left, Conlan Ledwith as Richard Barthelmess and Gavin Kawin Lee as James B. Leong in “Unbroken Blossoms” at East West Players. (Zev Rose Woolley) By Ashley Lee Staff Writer
4 days ago · The 1919 silent film features the first interracial love story depicted on screen, between Lillian Gish and Richard Barthelmess, a Caucasian actor in yellow face.
1 day ago · At the reception following the premiere, Chung described Broken Blossoms to me as “problematic in its own way but pretty progressive for its time,” which seems like a fair assessment of the classic starring Lillian Gish (Alexandra Hellquist) and Richard Barthelmess (Conlan Ledwith).
3 days ago · Richard Barthelmess and Lillian Gish in the 1919 film "Broken Blossoms." (United Archives via Getty Images) Throughout the play, some moments depicting the making of the movie are delivered with ...
3 days ago · While Griffith was not so enlightened as to break with the custom of casting a Caucasian actor (Richard Barthelmess) to play a Chinese lead, Broken Blossoms was groundbreaking in its sensitive and heroic portrayal of its humble protagonist, Cheng Huan, in an interracial love story.
3 days ago · After the deeply divisive reception of “The Birth of a Nation,” director D.W. Griffith released “Broken Blossoms,” in which a young, abused girl finds. Cirrkus News.
1 day ago · One of Griffith's last commercial blockbusters, his classic melodrama of a morally-ostracized young woman, Way Down East (1920), was famous for its daring sequence of Lillian Gish in a blizzard and on a floating ice, rescued at the last minute by Richard Barthelmess.
