Saturday, May 18, 2024

Quotables 19 May 2024: Coleen Gray on daydreams of Hollywood stardom dampened by the harsh realities of a Hollywood career

A publicity shot of actress Coleen Gray for ‘Kansas City Confidential’, 1952. Photo: United Artists

When I attended the University, I daydreamed about being a movie star. I would do my dressing room in Early American and give lovely presents to my make-up man and hairdresser for making me look so lovely, and so on. When I got my contract at 20th I was in seventh heaven, but I found out that a movie career is mostly hard work laced with disappointments’.

Interview with the Boston Sunday Post, 9 November 1947

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source unknown Actress and model Lillian Wells in a Halloween mood, sometime in the 1940s. Copyright 2025, Arthur Newhook .