“At MGM there was a first wave of top stars, and a second wave to replace them in case they got difficult. I was in the second line of defence, behind Myrna Loy.”

—  Rosalind Russell

Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies (2001 ed): Art. Rosalind Russell p. 383

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