Status Updates From I Love Her, That's Why!

“[Gracie] is a fine dramatic actress who… has become a world-wide symbol of sweet absurdity… how’d you like that?… I have a high class collaborator.”

“The fact that she is so kind to the rest of the world for its lack of understanding of what is perfectly clear to her [is what] makes people love her… she doesn’t blame them… she… puts up with everybody.”

“She handled it in her own way: mind her own business, ask for nothing but what’s due her - but just because she’s little, don’t push her around.”

“After the show 23 took friends out to dinner to celebrate. There were the two girls Gracie lived with - Rena Arnold and Mary Kelly… Jack Benny was crazy about Mary. (Note to Mary Livingston: This was long before you and Jack met.), Rena’s date, Gracie, and me.”

“Simon and Schuster ordered eighty thousand words in this book and they’re going to get them.” Lol

“[My sister Sarah, the family worrier] could go to sleep six blocks earlier because she could hear me coming [in my clunky shoes].”

Jack Benny’s ‘s introduction is adorable. I love the little illustrations that he is using to show a pause in the written work, giving the preface as a monologue. He also loved Gracie. The Burnses and the Bennys were good friends.