"The only thing I did at RKO of any note was lose my Texas accent." -- Dorothy Malone
Dorothy Malone (born 1901) was an American writer and columnist. Her books include How Mama Could Cook! (1946), Cookbook for Brides (1947), and Cookbook for Beginners (1953). Malone wrote a daily column under the nom de plume "Prudence Penny" for the New York American and later wrote as "Elsie Barton" for Secrets Magazine.
"Everybody said Peyton Place would be a mistake.""I acted three times with Fred MacMurray, three times with Martin and Lewis, four times with Rock Hudson. Three times with Glenn Ford.""I get crushes on directors because they are so brilliant.""I had had no art training.""I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton.""I never turned down a mother role.""I started out as a very young girl in Hollywood doing westerns portraying a mother with a couple of kids.""I was a bridesmaid at a wedding in one picture.""I was born in Everett; I went through grade school in Everett, high school in Seattle.""I was the first movie star to plunge into night-time soap opera.""My father was a minister, so I was a P.K., a preacher's kid.""Sinatra asked me out.""Sirk was every woman's dream of a director.""Television wasn't prestigious.""We had cocktail parties and I'd stay up until 5 in the morning."