"I'm a song and dance girl. I can act enough to get by. But that's the limit of my talents." -- Betty Grable, turning down the meaty role of the doomed, drunken Sophie in The Razor's Edge (1946), for which Anne Baxter eventually won an Oscar
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Anne Baxter in The Razor's Edge (20th Century Fox, 1946) |
"I'm an actress, not a personality. It's more successful to be a personality." -- Anne Baxter
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Anne Baxter in Carnival Story (RKO, 1954) |
"Are you kidding? Fans would expect me to rise up out of the water with lily pads in my hair, singing 'Hooray for Hollywood.'" -- Betty Grable, referring to Sophie's dipsomaniacal demise at the bottom of the Seine in The Razor's Edge
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Betty Grable in Three for the Show (Columbia, 1955) |