Thursday, June 4, 2009

What's in a pretty face?

The young lady depicted below is actress Lillian Gish. According to one of the grunts in the story Company K, which details the nightmare of being an American soldier in World War I, this picture or one like it kept him from taking his own life when he could find nothing left to live for.

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An early George Gershwin song from the musical "Miss 1917"

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