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

So they were turning, after all - those cameras. Life, which can be strangely merciful, had taken pity on Norma Desmond. The dream she had clung to so desperately had enfolded her. Norma: You see, this is my life. It always will be! (In a whisper) There's nothing else - just us - and the cameras - and those wonderful people out there in the dark. All right, Mr. De Mille, I'm ready for my close-up.

Key West for me was a tropical island paradise.

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

Tennessee Williams was a gifted talker with a beautiful accent and we had lots of things in common.

Because I take care of my body, it doesn't look like the body of a woman of my years.

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