“Cary [Grant] would arrive on the set and everybody's morale immediately lifted. The crew were crazy about him and so was I. But, curiously, I never felt the male-female chemistry that you sometimes experience on a set. I could have been talking to my best girl-friend.”

—  Laraine Day

The Independent, Obituaries, Laraine Day, November 13, 2007.

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