Joe Schenck, a top 20th Century-Fox executive, once said to me that he really believed I had a future, and that was because I was the only girl who could survive so many bad pictures.

The Hollywood structure was monopolistic, run by four or five big studios.

I was fortunate enough to work under directors who were, most of them, brilliant, emotional men.

I have a role now that I think becomes me. I am a grandmother.

that strange conflict in the American character: we pride ourselves on being the melting pot of the world but we insist on regarding most immigrants with suspicion.

I loved to eat. For all of Hollywood's considerable rewards, I was hungry for most of those twenty years.

I was plunged into what was known as the debutante social whirl. This was one of the ways fathers justified their own hard work and sacrifices.