Barbara Weeks

[on how she went from being under contract to Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. and Samuel Goldwyn to making cheap "B" westerns at Columbia Pictures] Ziegfeld died and Goldwyn tried to get into my pants. I outran the old man, and was sold down the river to Columbia [in 1932]. Show less «

[on Columbia Pictures boss Harry Cohn] Everything you've heard about Harry Cohn is the truth, take my word for it! He was a horrible man and so crude. He had no manners, no education, no anything. He was a terrible womanizer. That old buzzard tried me, and when he was rebuffed, he put me in westerns! He thought it was punishment, but I loved it! I loved making westerns. They were so much fun. The outdoors, everything about them. Show less «

I had put the career behind me and had tried to forget it. Maybe things would have been different had I not had such a bossy mother and had [Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.] not died when he did. [Ziegfeld and Eddie Cantor had helped her career, but after Ziegfeld's death in 1932 her career began to wane.] Show less «