Letter from Lillian Gish, New York, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1939 May 18 : typescript and autograph manuscript signed.

Writing that her family "seems whole again ... and we're moving Mother to the country in a few days for the summer"; adding that she is undecided about her own plans, as she has received "several Hollywood offers" but is waiting to see the manuscripts as "I don't want to get myself into something I might regret later"; remarking that the "movies seem to be getting 'good' again", and citing "Pygmalion", "Wuthering Heights", "Love affair", "the 'Vernon and Irene Castle' film", and "Good-bye Mr. Chips" to support her observation, while also noting that "Juarez" makes "that wonderful story seem dull, wooden, and endless."; stating that the theater business in New York has been "shockingly bad this past week", mentioning that Helen Hayes' mother has written a biography of her daughter "in terms of letters to her grandchild" and that "Ruth Gordon is doing her diary in the Atlantic Monthly".