Phyllis Kirk(1927-2006)

After the 1965 Watts race riots, she helped fund two preschool programs for poor families in the South Los Angeles neighborhood.

[on Bryan Foy, the producer of House of Wax (1953)] . . . he was just a divine old curmudgeon. That's exactly what he was, with a hellish reputation for being impossible. I got called to his office before anyone had even told me that I was going to be in that film, and he looked at me long and hard and said, "Wellll, Miss Kirk, we're giving you this part because you're the only intelligent actress I know that I can stand."