Her parents divorced when she was young. In her first year of high school, she gave up dance for acting. After a little time in John Murray Anderson's acting school, she was in the off-Broadway play "The Earth Between" (1923). Her Broadway debut in 1929 was in "Broken Dishes". Late in 1930, on a six-month Universal contract...See full bio »
Radio: Starred in the dramas "Alien Corn" (Theater Guild on the Air, ABC, Apr 24, 1949, with Kirk Douglas) and in "Reflected Glory" (Theater Guild on the Air, ABC, Feb 1, 1953, with Macdonald Carey).
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[about Katharine Hepburn's tie for the 1968 Oscar with Barbra Streisand] I wanted to be the first to win three Oscars, but Miss Hepburn has done it. Actually it hasn't been done. Miss Hepburn only won half an Oscar. If they'd given me half an Oscar I would have thrown it back in their faces. You see, I'm an Aries. I never lose.
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Her performance as Margo Channing in
All About Eve is ranked #5 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006).
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