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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“Being an actress is like living in a show window. It’s the price you pay.”
—Madeleine Carroll

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“I’ll always regret that I didn’t have a normal childhood. Was a picture career worth the sacrifice? Well, yes…you can’t have everything.”
— Linda Darnell

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“When I cry, do you want the tears to run all the way or shall I stop halfway down?”
— Margaret O’Brien

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“How many women do we know who were continually kissed by Clark Gable, William Powell, Cary Grant, Spencer Tracy and Fredric March? Only one: Myrna Loy… And to meet whom did Franklin D. Roosevelt find himself tempted to call off the Yalta Conference? Myrna Loy. And to see what lady in what picture did John Dillinger risk coming out of hiding to meet his bullet-ridden death in an alley in Chicago? Myrna Loy, in Manhattan Melodrama.”
—Lauren Bacall on the greatness of Myrna Loy

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“Experts always know everything but the fine points. When I took my citizenship exams, no one there knew how the White House came to be called the White House. But I did. So I told them.”
—Hedy Lamarr

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