all that time hanging around the sets, watching Norma Shearer make the most of her three expressions, was a help.

There was a saying around MGM: "Norma Shearer got the productions, Greta Garbo supplied the art, and Joan Crawford made the money to pay for both".

When television killed comedy and love stories, the movie makers went in slugging. They offered the downbeat, the degenerate as competition. This seems to me to be a sad campaign for Hollywood to use to combat box office disaster.

My God, I'm four hundred years old and the most I can do is look three hundred.

My tears speak for me.

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Dammit, don't you dare ask God to help me!