On Sinatra's distaste for the word "clan" to describe the Rat Pack: " 'I don't like the word "clan",' Frank once said. 'Did you ever look the word up in a dictionary?' I said. 'It means a family that sticks together, like the Kennedys you're so fond of. They're the most clannish family in America. I don't like Rat Pack, but there's nothing wrong with the name of Clan."
On Edward G Robinson's second wife Jane Robinson: "The current Mrs Edward G Robinson would like to be a hostess with the mostest, but she has not attained the status of his former wife, who entertained in great style."
On Harpo Marx: "Harpo, whom I adore, once told me he couldn't understand why he couldn't join a local country club. 'That's easy,' was my reply. 'You belong to a different club, where they don't take in Christians. So in a way you're sort of even."
On Rosemary Clooney: "Next door is a house of sorrow - Rosemary Clooney and her five children live there with no husband or father to guide them."
On fashions of the 1950s: "The cause is glamour, for which I've been fighting a losing battle for years. Our town was built on it, but there's scarcely a trace left now. Morning, noon and night the girls parade in babushkas; dirty, sloppy sweaters; and skin-tight pants. They may be an incitement to rape, but not to marriage."
On Jackie Kennedy: "When I look at Jackie Kennedy these days, I think: 'If those fellows [Hollywood designers of the 30s] were around today, what they couldn't have done for her!' She'd be queen of fashion the world over. Oleg Cassini can't hold a candle to any of them."
On Louis B Meyer. "The biggest impact I made [as an actress] was on a pudgy little fellow who used to lurk around the set. When the picture was finished he sidled up to me. I mistook his intentions. 'I don't want to buy any fur coats,' said I. 'You don't understand,' said he. 'My name's Louis Mayer. I'm the producer."
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