Biographie

Suffered from "demophobia" (fear of crowds) and was a somnambulist (sleepwalker).

In the late 1940s, 20th Century-Fox insured her legs with Lloyds of London for $250,000.

In 1946-47, the Treasury Department noted that she was the highest-paid woman in America, receiving $300,000 a year.

Was one of the 20 original The Goldwyn Girls, among whom were Lucille Ball, Virginia Bruce, Ann Dvorak and Paulette Goddard.

Her stepson, Tim James, was an attorney working with the then Attorney General of Texas and became responsible for enticing television personality Marvin Zindler of Houston to investigate the famous Chicken Ranch brothel in La Grange, Texas, eventually closing it down. The story became the basis of the Broadway and movie musical La cage aux poules (1982).

The woman's vision is deep-reaching, the man's far-reaching. With the man the world is his heart, with the woman the heart is her world.

You're better off betting on a horse than betting on a man. A horse may not be able to hold you tight, but he doesn't wanna wander from the stable at night.

There are two reasons why I am successful in show business and I am standing on both of them.

It's loud, it's cheap, it's gaudy. It's like everything I've ever done - I LOVE IT!

I'm strictly an enlisted man's girl.