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Leona A Gish 1909 - 1999

Leona A Gish of Jacksonville, Morgan County, IL was born on October 5, 1909, and died at age 89 years old on August 10, 1999.

Leona A Gish

Jacksonville, Morgan County, IL 62650

October 5, 1909

August 10, 1999

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Leona A Gish lived 14 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 89.

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In 1909, in the year that Leona A Gish was born, the New York Times published the first movie review. It was a report on D.W. Griffith's movie "Pippa Passes" also called "The Song of Conscience", a silent film. The review said that this work was moving away from "lurid material that attracted the wrath of censors and concerned citizens and toward more respectable ends. The movie was the story of a young female factory worker, on her day off, wandering and singing - thus changing the hearts of those around her towards good.

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In 1921, when she was merely 12 years old, hugely popular Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, silent film star, was arrested for rape and manslaughter after an actress died following a party at his house. He was acquitted after three trials and the jury wrote a formal letter apologizing for the charges, but his career never recovered. His films were at first banned - the ban was lifted after a year - and he was mostly ostracized by the community. He died at 46..

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