Oops. I posted this without any notes didn't I?My bad, as the kids say.
As you've seen this is the Gish sisters - Lillian on the left and Dorothy on the right.
Like the Talmadge sisters of the same silent era, the Gish sisters were abandoned by their father to be raise by their mother who found an acting niche and the girls went to follow suit and became the favourite choice of acclaimed director DW Griffith.
Also like the Talmadges, the young sister Dorothy found her niche as a comedic actress and purportedly surprised her sister who didn't think much of her acting chops.
Nevertheless, the sisters remained close, particularly as Lillian never married and Dorothy's only marriage lasted 15 years before ending in 1935.
Where our story departs from the Talmadges is that the Gish sisters did make the transition to talkies and both worked up until a few years before their deaths Dorothy in 1968 and Lillian in 1993.
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