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The Biograph Girl
Musical
This article is about the 1980 musical. For the term, see Biograph girl.
The Biograph Girl is a musical with a book by Warner Brown, lyrics by Brown and David Heneker, and music by Heneker.
Its plot focuses on the silent film era and five pioneers of American cinema - actresses Mary Pickford and Lillian Gish, directorsD. W. Griffith and Mack Sennett, and Paramount Pictures founder Adolph Zukor.
Plot
When Mary Gish and her daughters Lillian and Dorothy recognize their friend Gladys Smith in a film made by the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, they search for her at the studio headquarters in New York City.
Where did musical theatre originateThere they discover she has been rechristened Mary Pickford and is known as the Biograph Girl. Before long Lillian and Dorothy are acting in films directed by D.W. Griffith, and when he decides to relocate to Hollywood, he brings the girls and their mother with him.
Lillian is cast in The Birth of a Nation, while Mary decides to
