oldhollywood:Lillian Gish in The Scarlet Letter (1926, dir. Victor Sjöström) “Thus
oldhollywood: Lillian Gish in The Scarlet Letter (1926, dir. Victor Sjöström) “Thus the young and pure would be taught to look at her, with the scarlet letter flaming on her breast,—at her, the child of honorable parents,—at her, the mother of a babe, that would hereafter be a woman, —at her, who had once been innocent, —as the figure, the body, the reality of sin.” -The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne -- source link