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The Greatest Thing in Life is a american film of genre Drama directed by D. W. Griffith released in USA on 22 december 1918 with Robert Harron

The Greatest Thing in Life (1918)

The Greatest Thing in Life
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Released in USA 22 december 1918
Length 1h10
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    War,    Romance
Rating68% 3.4047053.4047053.4047053.4047053.404705

The Greatest Thing in Life is a 1918 American silent drama film about World War I, directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Lillian Gish, Robert Harron, and David Butler. The film is now considered lost, as no prints are known to exist.

This film was released later in the same year as Griffith's more famous World War I film, Hearts of the World, which also stars Lillian Gish and Robert Harron. The Greatest Thing in Life was renowned for two main aspects: the groundbreaking portrait photography style of Henrik Sartov, and a "new and daring" interracial kiss between a white officer and a black soldier (both male).



^ "Silent Era: The Greatest Thing in Life". silentera. Retrieved 2008-06-19.

^ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:The Greatest Thing in Life

^ The Greatest Thing in Life at TheGreatStars.com; Lost Films Wanted

^ Merrit, Russel, quoted in The Griffith Project. Usai, Paolo Cherchi, and Cynthia Rowell, eds. Vol. 9: Films Produced in 1916-8. London: British Film Institute, 2005. Pgs. 196-9.

^ Gish, Lillian, with Ann Pinchot. Lillian Gish: The Movies, Mr. Griffith, and Me, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1969. Pgs. 202.

Actors

Robert Harron

(Edward Livingston)Lillian Gish

(Jeannette Peret)David Butler

(Mr. Le Bebe)Elmo Lincoln

(The American Soldier)Peaches Jackson Guererro

(Miss Peaches)
And :
Kate Bruce
Edward Peil Sr.
Zasu Pitts
Carol Dempster
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