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

I never go outside unless I look like Joan Crawford the movie star. If you want to see the girl next door, go next door.

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

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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".

I was a strict disciplinarian, perhaps too strict at times, but my God, without discipline what is life?