Barbara Weeks
Birthday: July 4, 1913 in Somerset, Massachusetts, USA
Birth Name: Sue Kingsley
Height: 165 cm
Barbara Weeks was born on July 4, 1913 in Somerset, Massachusetts, USA. She was an actress, known for The Violent Years (1956), By Whose Hand? (1932) and Dad Rudd, M.P. (1940). She was previously marr ...Show More
I had put the career behind me and had tried to forget it. Maybe things would have been different ha Show more
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.] Hide
[on Columbia Pictures boss Harry Cohn] Everything you've heard about Harry Cohn is the truth, take m Show more
[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. Hide
[on how she went from being under contract to Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. and Samuel Goldwyn to making chea Show more
[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]. Hide
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