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Dorothy Malone
American
Actress
About the author
I was the first movie star to plunge into night-time soap opera.
Dorothy Malone,
American
Actress
#First
#Night
#Opera
I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton.
Dorothy Malone,
American
Actress
#Horses
We had cocktail parties and I'd stay up until 5 in the morning.
Dorothy Malone,
American
Actress
The only thing I did at RKO of any note was lose my Texas accent.
Dorothy Malone,
American
Actress
Television wasn't prestigious.
Dorothy Malone,
American
Actress
#Television
Sirk was every woman's dream of a director.
Dorothy Malone,
American
Actress
#Woman
#Dream
Sinatra asked me out.
Dorothy Malone,
American
Actress
My father was a minister, so I was a P.K., a preacher's kid.
Dorothy Malone,
American
Actress
#Father
Everybody said Peyton Place would be a mistake.
Dorothy Malone,
American
Actress
#Mistake
I was a bridesmaid at a wedding in one picture.
Dorothy Malone,
American
Actress
#Wedding
I started out as a very young girl in Hollywood doing westerns portraying a mother with a couple of kids.
Dorothy Malone,
American
Actress
#Kids
#Hollywood
#Mother
I never turned down a mother role.
Dorothy Malone,
American
Actress
#Mother
I had had no art training.
Dorothy Malone,
American
Actress
#Art
#Training
I get crushes on directors because they are so brilliant.
Dorothy Malone,
American
Actress
I acted three times with Fred MacMurray, three times with Martin and Lewis, four times with Rock Hudson. Three times with Glenn Ford.
Dorothy Malone,
American
Actress
#Martin
I was born in Everett; I went through grade school in Everett, high school in Seattle.
Dorothy Malone,
American
Actress
#School