 A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity. Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation?
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Taking joy in living is a woman`s best cosmetic.
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Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.
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I`ll match my flops with anybody`s but I wouldn`t have missed `em.
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Flops are a part of life`s menu and I`ve never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
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"Taking joy in life is a woman`s best cosmetic."
"Taste. You cannot buy such a rare and wonderful thing. You can`t send away for it in a catalogue. And I`m afraid it`s becoming obsolete."
"In all those types of films I wore a tan suit, a grey suit, a beige suit and then a negligee for the seventh reel near the end when I would admit to my best friend on the telephone that what I really wanted was to become a little housewife."
"Flops are part of a life`s menu and I`ve never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses."
"At MGM there was a first wave of top stars, and a second wave to replace them in case they got difficult. I was second in line of defence, behind Myrna Loy."
"Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral."
"Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly."
Trivia
Son, Lance Brisson, born May 7, 1943.
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Her performance as Hildy Johnson in His Girl Friday (1940) is ranked #28 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006).
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In Italy, almost all her films were dubbed by either Tina Lattanzi or Lidia Simoneschi.
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Cary Grant, introduced her to her future husband and was the best man at their wedding.
In 1970, she accepted the Oscar for "Best Actress in a Supporting Role" on behalf of Helen Hayes, who wasn`t present at the awards ceremony.
She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1708 Vine Street
She died after a long battle with breast cancer in 1976 at the age of 69, although initially her age was misreported because she had shaved a few years off her true age.
Won Broadway`s 1953 Tony Award as Best Actress (Musical) for "Wonderful Town," a musical based on the same source as her film My Sister Eileen (1942), for which she received an Oscar nomination playing the same character. She also received a 1957 Tony Award nomination as Best Actress (Dramatic) for "Auntie Mame," a part she recreated in an Oscar-nominated performance in the film version Auntie Mame (1958).
She refused to be placed in the "best supporting" category when Columbia Pictures wanted to promote her for an Academy Award nomination for her role in Picnic (1955). Many felt she would have won had she cooperated.
Died about three weeks after Patrick Dennis, the author of Auntie Mame (1958), one of her most famous roles.
Interred at Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California, USA, in the center of section M at the statue and cross.
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