Trivia and Quotes
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 (February 2001) Has currently reconciled with old enemy, Elizabeth Taylor, to work on TV movie These Old Broads (2001) (TV) Daddy had got us rooms in a motel until he could find us a house. There were not a lot of places available for a young family on our budget. Daddy went around to dozens of places. Nobody wanted kids. Finally, he found one in the hills south of Glendale. As usual, the landlady asked if he had kids. "Yep,` he replied. `A boy and a girl.` `Well, whatta you going to do about them?` she wanted to know, implying that she didn`t allow children. `I`m gonna take`em out and drown them in the Los Angeles River, and come back tomorrow.` That was my father - ask a silly question and just wait. She must have had the same sense of humor: we moved in the next day.
I do twenty minutes every time the refrigerator door opens and the light comes on.
I stopped making movies because I don`t like taking my clothes off. Maybe it`s realism but, in my opinion, it`s utter filth.
Singin` in the Rain (1952) and childbirth were the two hardest things I ever had to do in my life.
When asked what her favourite movie is: I think one of my favourite films is `Dark Victory` with Bette Davis. Why? She was so wonderful in that film. And....maybe I just want a good cry once in a while without having to go through a divorce.
Trivia
April 2002: Opened the Hollywood Motion Picture Collection near the new Kodak Theatre. The collection, which was collected and preserved primarily by Reynolds herself, features over 3,000 costumes including Carmen Miranda`s turbans, a pair of Judy Garland`s ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz (1939), John Wayne`s guns and Marilyn Monroe`s windswept dress from The Seven Year Itch (1955).
At one particularly low point in her career, she confessed to literally living in her car, a Cadillac.
Considers herself a "movie-oholic" and has an extensive collection of memorabilia, with over 4,000 costumes from the silent screen period to the 1970s. She has been known to gather posters from her collection of 3,000 and drive to homes of actor pals for autographs. In the 1990s she turned her collection into a Las Vegas movie museum, but had to shut it down in 1997 because of financial problems. Recently she has looked into the possibility of opening up a hall of fame museum in Hollywood near Grauman`s Chinese Theatre.
Filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection for her Las Vegas hotel. [July 1997]
Her father entered her in a beauty pageant once when she was very young. She wore a bathing suit that her mother had mended that morning and a pair of her sister`s high heels.
In 1964, she went into the hospital business, purchasing Oceanside Hospital in Oceanside, California for $1,000,000 with plans to turn it into a profitable business venture.
In 1975, she sold the Beverly Hills mansion that she had lived in with Harry Karl. The house was reputed to be worth over $1,000,000. The buyer was Jim Randall, an industrialist who made aircraft rivets. When he married actress Marisa Berenson, the wedding was held in the redecorated home and his best man was his friend George Hamilton.
She appeared as Dan`s mother, fresh out of the mental ward, during an episode of the sitcom "Roseanne" (1988). When she later appeared on Roseanne`s talk show, she revealed that during the filming of that episode, while she and Roseanne were wrestling in the back yard, Roseanne, quite unknowingly, accidentally broke one of her ribs.
She made her first appearance at the Hollywood Collectors & Celebrities Show on April 6th & 7th, 2002, at Beverly Garland`s Holiday Inn in North Hollywood, California.
Won the 1948 Miss Burbank contest and was offered a screen test by Warner Bros. the day after her win. She initially entered the contest because everyone who entered received a silk scarf, blouse and free lunch.
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