I entered the cosmetics industry because I wanted more women to use cosmetics made with safe, healthful ingredients.

Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.

I didn't want to spend the rest of my life playing Norma Desmond over and over again.

I was the first celebrity in pictures to be marrying a titled European.

Sunset Boulevard opened in August 1950, and it was pronounced the best movie ever made about Hollywood.

Much as I cared for Joseph Kennedy, he was a classic example of that person in the arts with lots of brains and drive but little taste or talent.

I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944.