Dorothy Eloise Maloney Quotes

• We had cocktail parties and I’d stay up until 5 in the morning.

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• The only thing I did at RKO of any note was lose my Texas accent.

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• Television wasn’t prestigious.

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• Sirk was every woman’s dream of a director.

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• Sinatra asked me out.

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• My father was a minister, so I was a P.K., a preacher’s kid.

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• I was the first movie star to plunge into night-time soap opera.

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• I was born in Everett; I went through grade school in Everett, high school in Seattle.

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• I was a bridesmaid at a wedding in one picture.

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• I started out as a very young girl in Hollywood doing westerns portraying a mother with a couple of kids.

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• I never turned down a mother role.

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• I had had no art training.

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• I get crushes on directors because they are so brilliant.

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• I acted three times with Fred MacMurray, three times with Martin and Lewis, four times with Rock Hudson. Three times with Glenn Ford.

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• Everybody said Peyton Place would be a mistake.

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• I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton.

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Dorothy Eloise Maloney (16)

Birth:	30th January, 1925
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress

About

Dorothy Eloise Maloney was born in Chicago, Illinois. She is an American actress. After a decade in films, she began to acquire a more glamorous image, particularly after her performance in Written on the Wind, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She guest-starred on NBC's 1958-1959 western series, Cimarron City. From 1964-1968, she played the lead role of Constance MacKenzie on the ABC prime time serial Peyton Place except for a brief stretch where she was absent due to surgery.

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