I'd rather win a pennant than an Academy Award

I enjoyed working at RKO more than at MGM. At RKO the parts were better!

[On her work in "Keep Your Powder Dry"] I didn't want to do it, but they said if I did it they would give me Undercurrent with Robert Taylor. Then they gave Undercurrent to Katharine Hepburn, so I left MGM.

A lot of sources said I was born in 1917. That is incorrect. I was born in 1920. 1917 was the year the studios listed as my birth year to make me appear younger.

MGM never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles, but cast me in programme pictures.

When you’re a housekeeper’s daughter, you see the world through a half-open door.

I'd rather win a pennant than an Academy Award