Laraine Day quotes
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“I enjoyed working at RKO more than at MGM. At RKO the parts were better!”
-- Laraine DaySource : "Talking With Laraine Day". Classic Images Magazine Interview, May 31, 1996.
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“MGM never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles, but cast me in programme pictures.”
-- Laraine DaySource : "Laraine Day" by Tom Vallance, www.independent.co.uk. November 13, 2007.
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“When you’re a housekeeper’s daughter, you see the world through a half-open door.”
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“A lot of sources said I was born in 1917. That is incorrect. I was born in 1920. 1917 was the year the studios listed as my birth year to make me appear younger.”
-- Laraine DaySource : "A Conversation with Laraine Day, Hollywood's Girl Next Door". The New York Times Interview, June 9, 1984.
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“(On her work in Keep Your Powder Dry) I didn't want to do it, but they said if I did it they would give me Undercurrent with Robert Taylor. Then they gave Undercurrent to Katharine Hepburn, so I left MGM.”
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“Ronald Reagan makes me proud to be an American. His intelligence, capability, and Christian brotherhood are so inspiring and his way of leadership is just superb. I consider myself lucky to have been his leading lady in The Bad Man and a short subject reel and as a nation all together we are beyond fortunate to have the leadership of such fine people as the Reagan's.”
-- Laraine DaySource : "A Conversaton with Laraine Day, Hollywood's Girl Next Door". The New York Times Interview, June 9, 1984.
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“I'd rather win a pennant than an Academy Award”
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“When you’re a housekeeper’s daughter, you see the world through a half-open door.”
-- Laraine DaySource : "Fictional character: Nancy Monks Blair Patton". "The Locket", www.imdb.com. December 20, 1946.
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“[On her work in "Keep Your Powder Dry"] I didn't want to do it, but they said if I did it they would give me Undercurrent with Robert Taylor. Then they gave Undercurrent to Katharine Hepburn, so I left MGM.”
-- Laraine DaySource : "Laraine Day" by Tom Vallance, www.independent.co.uk. November 13, 2007.
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“I enjoyed working at RKO more than at MGM. At RKO the parts were better!”
Source : "Talking With Laraine Day". Classic Images Magazine Interview, May 31, 1996.
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