About my career I was serious and earnest, sometimes impatient.

Rehearsals and screening rooms are often unreliable because they can't provide the chemistry between an audience and what appears on the stage or screen.

About my career I was serious and earnest, sometimes impatient.

The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title

there are many ways to fail. Some reject success. And others do not recognize it when success comes.

I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.

I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war.