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

I am not the kind of woman who excuses her mistakes while reminding us of what used to be.

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

In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening.

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

I suppose life is a little like that, isn't it, a message in a bottle pitched out to sea, to be carried by the winds and the tides, washing up on the beaches we could never imagine.

What a different world it was when I first sailed for Europe in 1930, with my mother, sister, and brother to spend six months abroad.