One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting, loving friendships I have made.

Not all celebrities are dunces.

Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.

It was a lack of system that made the '30s Depression as inevitable as all others previously suffered.

Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.

It seems that entertainment is what most excites us and what we value above everything else.

Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.