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MOVIES - March 6, 1993

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Last Wishes: The late Lillian Gish left an estate of $10 million, with most of it to be used for an annual award in the performing arts, according to her will. Dated Feb. 21, 1986, the will provides 20 individuals, including relatives, friends and an employee with about $1 million in specific bequests ranging from $5,000 to $250,000. Gish, who would have been 100 in October, directed that following the cash bequests, the remaining estate be used to establish “The Dorothy and Lillian Prize,” in memory of herself and her sister, who died in 1968.

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