On the screen I wear lifts and with one thing and another I look halfway tall and slender and not like a pygmy. My real height is 5 ft. 2 in., and I weigh 98 lb. Preston Sturges, who wrote and directed Sullivan's Travels, analyzed my size for me. He says I belong to a separate race, the motion-picture race of Little People.Charlie Chaplin, Barthelmess, Doug Fairbanks Sr, and Janet Gaynor and Mary Pickford, to name great ones, belonged to this race of Sturges'
-- Life Magazine, May 1943
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