Jean Harlow said of William Powell, "He's the smartest guy I know. Every night in bed he reads a different book, cover to cover." When asked what she did while this was going on, Harlow replied,
"Wait for him to finish."
Dorothy Parker once spent Christmas with Lillian Hellman and Dashell Hammett at their country estate. Returning with firewood one night, Hammett remarked, "Damn it's cold outside!" Miss Parker looked at him and said in a low voice, "Not for orphans."
While filming A PLACE IN THE SUN, Elizabeth Taylor burst into Shelly Winters' dressing
room to ask if she knew what day of the month it was.
Shelly tossed her an issue of Variety.
"Look on the front page," she said. "The date will be printed there." Liz quickly scanned the newspaper, then pitched it
aside.
"This doesn't help me at all," she said. "It's yesterday's copy."
Upon leaving the theatre one night, Tallulah Bankhead was approached by a man collecting for the Salvation Army. He started
bugging her for a donation. Tallulah sighed, then put twenty dollars
into the tambourine. She said,
"Of course, Dahling. I hear it's been a perfectly dreadful year for you Spanish dancers."
Joan Crawford once said of Bette Davis,
"She's screwed everyone at Warner Brothers but Lassie."
Miss Davis, upon learning this, later responded, "Well. Joan would
know."
Fanny Brice on Esther Williams: Wet, she's a star!
SUPPOSEDLY INSCRIBED ON THEIR TOMBSTONES:
W.C. Fields - "I'd rather be in Philadelphia."
Dorothy Parker - "Excuse my dust."
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