I was only saying to the Queen the other day how I hate name dropping.
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Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Quote
“If you really want to know someone, you must see their emotions off guard. That's how I know Joan Crawford could never have been cruel to her children. I really knew her, when she was still Billie, as she liked to be called in the early days. In a relationship as close as ours, I had the chance to see her in every kind of personal situation.”
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