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* FakeBrit: Of course, much of the cast, including Gish, are Americans playing Brits. It's a silent film, so the accent isn't a problem.
* PlayingGertrude: A male exapmle: Donald Crisp plays Lillian Gish's father, though he was only 11 years older than her.

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* FakeBrit: Of course, much of the cast, including Gish, are Americans playing Brits. It's a silent film, so the accent isn't a problem.
* PlayingGertrude: A male exapmle: Donald Crisp plays Lillian Gish's father, though he was only 11 years older than her.
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* FakeBrit: Of course, much of the cast, including Gish, are Americans playing Brits. It's a silent film, so the accent isn't a problem.

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* FakeBrit: Of course, much of the cast, including Gish, are Americans playing Brits. It's a silent film, so the accent isn't a problem.problem.
* PlayingGertrude: A male exapmle: Donald Crisp plays Lillian Gish's father, though he was only 11 years older than her.

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* DawsonCasting: 26-year-old Creator/LillianGish playing 15-year-old Lucy, [[OlderThanTheyLook though it works for her rather well]]. In the original short story, Lucy is 12, but Griffith knew that only a child actor could pull off the role of a 12-year-old, and didn't want to traumatise a kid by making her act the part of the badly mistreated Lucy.

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* CaliforniaDoubling: Set in the Limehouse district of London, but shot in Hollywood.
* DawsonCasting: 26-year-old Creator/LillianGish playing 15-year-old Lucy, [[OlderThanTheyLook though it works for her rather well]]. In the original short story, Lucy is 12, but Griffith knew that only a child actor could pull off the role of a 12-year-old, and didn't want to traumatise a kid by making her act the part of the badly mistreated Lucy.Lucy.
* FakeBrit: Of course, much of the cast, including Gish, are Americans playing Brits. It's a silent film, so the accent isn't a problem.
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* DawsonCasting: 26-year-old Creator/LillianGish playing 15-year-old Lucy, [[OlderThanTheyLook though it works for her rather well]]. In the original short story, Lucy is 12, but Griffiths knew that only a child actor could pull off the role of a 12-year-old, and didn't want to traumatise a kid by making her act the part of the badly mistreated Lucy.

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* DawsonCasting: 26-year-old Creator/LillianGish playing 15-year-old Lucy, [[OlderThanTheyLook though it works for her rather well]]. In the original short story, Lucy is 12, but Griffiths Griffith knew that only a child actor could pull off the role of a 12-year-old, and didn't want to traumatise a kid by making her act the part of the badly mistreated Lucy.
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* DawsonCasting: 26-year-old Creator/LillianGish playing 15-year-old Lucy, [[OlderThanTheyLook though it works for her rather well]]. In the original short story, Lucy is 12, but Griffiths knew that only a child actor could pull off the role of a 12-year-old, and didn't want to traumatise a kid by making her act the part of the badly mistreated Lucy.

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