This interview took place in Miss Gish's Manhattan apartment on August 1, 1978. She was 84 years old. The interview was arranged by Lillian Vallish Foote, who was named after Miss Gish, and suggested by her husband, Horton; I had met the Footes at that summer's Faulkner conference in Mississippi, and we remained friends. I told Miss Gish that I would be playing this tape for my film history students and that they were her audience. It is significant that Miss Gish did not receive credit as producer or co-producer on La Bohème, The Scarlet Letter, or The Wind, but she never brought that up in the interview, and Iforgot to ask about it.