“I've been away from Hollywood so long, I feel like a spider on a wedding cake.”

—  Shelley Winters

On the set of Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960), as quoted in "Rambling Reporter" by Mike Connolly, Hollywood Reporter (December 10, 1958), p. 2

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