US actress (stage and film).
"She was an early silent film and stage actress; starred in "Birth of a Nation.""
The stage was our school, our home, our life."
"Young man, if God had wanted you to see me that way, he would have put your eyes in your bellybutton."
What you get is a living -- what you give is a life.
"You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father and finally he played my husband. If he had lived, I'm sure I would have played his mother."
