We salute her for a life of remarkable achievements as an actor, as a diplomat, and most importantly as our beloved mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and adored wife for fifty-five years of the late and much missed Charles Alden Black.

Delay and indecision are first weapons in the armory of moviemakers.

Intentions often melt in the face of unexpected opportunity.

Long ago, I became more interested in the real world than in make-believe.

Visiting old haunts is hard on memory. Things shrink, change, and disappear.

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.

One famous movie executive who shall remain nameless, exposed himself to me in his office. 'Mr X,' I said, 'I thought you were a producer not an exhibitor'.