Quote of the Day (Mary Astor, on What ‘Old Moviemakers’ Gave Audiences)

“Whatever we did—we old moviemakers—we gave people a lot of fun. Through depressions and wars and calamities, we gave them the sense of glory, of a future that would be braver than today.''—Oscar-winning American actress, novelist, and memoirist Mary Astor (1906-1987), A Life on Film (1971)

The image accompanying this post shows Mary Astor in Dodsworth, released in 1936. She played the luminous woman who gave the movie’s disillusioned title character “a future that would be braver than today.''