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“After my screen test, the director clapped his hands gleefully and yelled, “She can’t talk! She can’t act! She’s sensational!”—Ava GardnerPhoto by Norman Parkinson, 1953 Portrait of Elijah Boardmanby...
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“I don’t know why the public took a liking to me so fast. Popularity is a curious thing. The public responds to a dimple, a smile, a giggle, a hairstyle, an attitude. Acting talent has less to do with...
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James Stewart and Kim Novak taking a break during the filming of Vertigo, 1958.“The last time she saw Stewart was when they bumped into each other at an airport [he died in 1997]. “I said, ‘Jimmy, I...
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“It’s the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.”—Tallulah Bankhead RaphaelThe Woman With the Veil1514–1515Oil on canvas, 32 in × 23.8 inPalatine Gallery, Palazzo Pitti,...
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“I’ve had a beautiful life, I’ve tumbled into the most beautiful life in the world. I’d never change it.”—Mary NolanIn 1948, Nolan’s body was discovered in her shabby Los Angeles bungalow, dead from an...
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“Career is too pompous a word. It was a job and I have always felt privileged to be paid for doing what I love doing.”—Barbara Stanwyck Tatsuya TanakaSteakMiniature Calendar Mary Nolan, 1920s...
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“Listen, there is no acting style. Most people just play themselves.”—Myrna Loy Claude Monet (1840-1926)The Customhouse1882Oil on canvas61 x 75 cmHarvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Annie Swan...
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“I find it so boring to talk about myself. I don’t remember the last time I did an interview. Somebody came to my house and I thought I’d never get rid of him. That sort of cooled me off.”—Irene Dunne...
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“I don’t like my voice. I don’t like the way I look. I don’t like the way I move. I don’t like the way I act… I, along with the critics, have never taken myself very seriously. ”—Elizabeth Taylor John...
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“I was a homely kid with freckles that came out every spring and stuck on me ‘til Christmas. I was glamorous because of magicians like George J. Folsey, James Wong Howe, Oliver Marsh, Ray June, and all...
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“When I am spotted somewhere, it means that my characterizations haven’t covered up Eleanor Parker the person. I prefer it the other way around.”—Eleanor Parker Félix Vallotton (1865–1925)The Red...
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“Too many divorces for so small a town. But then you mustn’t forget that Hollywood is a hard place to be happy unless you’re so absorbed in your work that you haven’t time to get into mischief. I do...
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“The main problem in marriage is that for a man sex is a hunger like eating. If the man is hungry and can’t get to a fancy French restaurant, he goes to a hot dog stand. For a woman, what is important...
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“Acting’s just waiting for a custard pie. That’s all.” —Katharine Hepburn Lawren Stewart Harris, Mount Thule, Bylot Island, 1930 Humphrey Bogart, Dead Reckoning, 1947Screenplay by Steve Fisher,...
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“Professionally, my career was great, but never was the scene offstage great for me.”—Betty Hutton Christen DalsgaardDanish painter (b. 1824, Skive, Jutland, d. 1907, Sorø)Surely He Will Come?1879Oil...
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“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” —Audrey Hepburn Mary CassattAmerican painter (b.1844 Allegheny City, d. 1926 Le Mesnil-Théribus, Oise)Woman with a Pearl Necklace in a Loge1879Oil...
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“I don’t think much of most of the films I made, but being a movie star was something I liked very much… My film career faded. A man can go on playing certain roles till he’s sixty. But not a woman…...
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“Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it’s not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people’s eyes.”—John Ford Ellsworth...
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“Until I came along all the leading men were handsome, but luckily they wrote a lot of stories about the fellow next door.”—Gary Cooper Filippo Lippi (1457-1504)Esther at the Palace Gate, circa...
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“They say the movies should be more like life; I think life should be more like the movies.”—Myrna Loy Interior (Model Reading), 1925, Edward Hopper Beatrice Pearson as Doris Lowry in Force of Evil,...
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