“I couldn’t act, but the idea of silent pictures appealed to me, because I couldn’t talk either.” – Marion Davies, who spoke with a stutter. Source: The Times We Had by Marion Davies (edited by Pamela Pfau and Kenneth S. Marx). Photo: Ruth Harriet Louise in 1926. April Folly (1920) […]
“I have never thought it wrong [posing for scantily clad photos], but merely never thought of showing my limbs while I was working in the Moscow Art Theater in Russia. In my opinion this type of art would not be at all suited to my personality. I do not even couple limbs and sex together. […]
“I’ve never had a dull moment in my life. I’ve always wanted to try something new. When I was a child, I wouldn’t wear what the other kids had. I won’t now. I had the first pantie girdle, the first broadtail suit, the first sack dress — from Givenchy. I was even the first Gloria. […]
“I was born in Corsicana [TX]. I don’t suppose any one ever heard of it, but soon afterward we moved to Dallas and I went to school and high school there….They made so much fun of my dialect when I started in pictures, I got rid of it. Mr. Brenon [a movie director she frequently […]
“Like the rest of the original Mack Sennett bathing girls, I had started a motion picture career at three dollars a day, six days a week guarantee. Out of that we trolleyed to and from the studio, bought our lunches and made our clothes (don’t laugh) and those were happy days! We were really school […]
“When I first came to California an interviewer asked me what is the dangerous age of a man and a woman. They ask such funny questions, so naive! I told him I did not know the dangerous age of man. I have not been one. The dangerous age of a woman is from one to […]