[on being asked in 1943 what a girl needs to be a movie star] "Intelligence , adaptability and talent. And by talent I mean the capacity for hard work. Lots of girls come here with little but good looks. Beauty is a valuable asset, but it is not the whole...
Ginger Rogers
[1943] I can`t believe how blessed I am! I`m married to the most wonderful man, Gene Raymond, whom I`m deeply in love with, and, my career is right where I want it to be. I can live like this forever!
Jeanette MacDonald
[on leaving Oklahoma for Hollywood, where he became a horse wrangler for Howard Hawks on The Outlaw (1943)] I`d been making a dollar a day as a cowboy, and my first check in Hollywood was for $300. After that, you couldn`t have driven me back to Oklahoma ...
Ben Johnson
Yes, Howard Hughes invented a bra for me. Or, he tried to. And one of the seamless ones like they have now. He was way ahead of his time. But I never wore it in The Outlaw (1943). And he never knew. He wasn`t going to take my clothes off to check if I had...
Jane Russell
They held up The Outlaw (1943) for five years. And Howard Hughes had me doing publicity for it every day, five days a week for five years.
Jane Russell
[in 2002, on his beloved brother Jack, who died in 1943 when Johnny was 11.]: There`s never been two months gone by that I haven`t dreamed about him. He`s tried to help turn me to the way of life.
Johnny Cash
(Following a 1943 U.S.O tour to New Guinea) There`s no coin in Hollywood, rich as it is, that can pay a fellow the way I`ve been paid for my little effort on behalf of the G.I.s out there. It was the greatest emotional experience of my life.
Gary Cooper