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When I asked my mother why crowds shouted my name and said 'We love you,' she would dust it off by saying, 'Your work makes them happy.' She never let it go to my head.

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I loved what I did. I remember cruel mothers who would pinch their children to make them cry in a scene, but my mother encircled me with affection.

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Biographies of me have usually been compiled from old newspaper clips, untruthful publicity stories, and reminiscences of people who claim to have known me well.

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I was absolutely bathed in love. I was so young, starting at age 3, that working seemed very normal. I thought everybody went to work.

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If I had it to do all over again, I wouldn't change anything. I probably would have paid for the pleasure of working.

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I remember telling President Carter on his first night, when I was escorting people around, that I was interested in continuing public service and that politics didn't matter - but it does, doesn't it?

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I did an imitation of him to make the crew laugh. To my shock, there was Cary Grant behind me. He got very angry. I was sent all the way from RKO to David Selznick's office and was told not to do it anymore. I thought to myself, 'I must have been pretty good to make him that angry.'

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I hate that song 'Mr. Bojangles.' It drives me up the wall, since it's not about him at all. He was never a bum in jail.

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I wish my name was Cobb. Then they would send over a Cobb salad.

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My role models were Amelia Earhart and Eleanor Roosevelt, and my major crush was J. Edgar Hoover.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actress

Born: April 23rd, 1928

Died: February 10th, 2014

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