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What really got my goat at MGM were comedians like The Marx Brothers who never wrote their own jokes.

I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.

There was a saying around MGM: "Norma Shearer got the productions, Greta Garbo supplied the art, and Joan Crawford made the money to pay for both".

My last days at MGM were like the fall of the Roman Empire in fast motion.

Even though I had a lucrative contract with MGM, I had a husband who was drinking and gambling our money away faster than I could make it.

I thought I was making fifty dollars a week [at MGM], but it turned out to be $35 because twelve weeks of the year you were on layoff. It was white slavery, and it lasted for seventeen years.

I was signed to MGM. I was in Vegas for sixteen weeks at the Sands Hotel.

By the time we got to MGM, and Lions Gate the movie was done there was nothing else to say. It was done. Just as at Universal, it was art by committee.

When my mother signed at MGM, that was the only kind of contract you could sign. There was no such thing as an independent agent.

Among the great glories of the MGM lot were the vast outdoor sets that had been constructed over the years.

Anything I've asked of MGM Grand, they've done for me in a heartbeat. They're all about making entertainers and athletes happy.

I gave my eardrums to MGM. And it's true: I really did.

[From a window in the Writer's Building at MGM, which overlooked a cemetery:] Hello down there. It might interest you to know that up here we are just as dead as you are.

And actually, about three weeks ago, Micky, Peter and I were in Vegas at the MGM Grand. And we did about 12 shows in seven days. It was quite an experience.

Under no circumstances would it be right for me to go with MGM. Irene shares my opinion.

I was invited to join the MGM cartoon department. But if I'd started work in animation I'd have had to take a cut in salary, so I didn't.

I enjoyed working at RKO more than at MGM. At RKO the parts were better!

MGM bores me when I see them, but I don't see them much. They have been a help in getting me introductions to morticians, who are the only people worth knowing.

Bobby [Fosse] was very difficult to work with, he wanted to be a big star at MGM, but it was the end of making musical movies at the time.

MGM never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles, but cast me in programme pictures.

I love pre-code movies. Some of my favorites are movies with Warren William and there is an MGM film called "Skyscraper Souls" which is the best Warner Brothers movie that MGM ever made.

I kind of go for the MGM version of every musical style.

I don't think I could ever go to Auschwitz, because when we took that tour of MGM, I nearly collapsed outside the Thalberg building.

Well oddly enough, I liken the years at MGM, and I was there for about eight years, to doing stock, what we used to call repertory or stock, playing a whole bunch of different roles.