The TV legend reflects on her groundbreaking career, the secret to her peerless comedic timing and why she didn’t quit her job at United Airlines until season three of 'The Jeffersons.'
Not to me. It was just a movie, period. My girlfriend and I, we would sweet-talk our way past the guards at the big studios and take our résumés. I remember we were at 20th Century Fox, and we met Joyce Selznick, David O. Selznick’s niece. And she said, “Come on in, girls.” She spent 20 minutes giving us a whole speech about how Hollywood works. I always appreciated her.My agent was Ernestine McClendon.
It’s better, but I don’t think I had anything to do with it. The people watching, they’re the ones who make decisions about whether you’re good or not, or whether you deserve something or not. Inthe network wanted me to own the building. I said, “I will not own the building. That makes me one of the haves. I don’t know what that would do to my career. And I’m not willing to find out. I’m one of the have-nots. My romance with the people is that I’m one of them.
She was. I loved Roxie. Every time she wanted to try something, she wanted me to do it with her. We took tennis lessons with this guy from Inglewood, and all we did was run for the ball. Then she joined this spa and took me there. Were Roxie and her husband [television producer Sy Kravitz] the inspiration for the show’s interracial couple, Tom and Helen Willis?
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