Jean Simmons(1929-2010)

Amazed with her performance in A Lagoa Azul (1949), William Wyler wanted her for the role of Princess Ann in A Princesa e o Plebeu (1953), but Howard Hughes, who owned her contract, would not loan her out to Paramount to do the film.

[on Spartacus (1960)] Making Spartacus was enough acting to last anybody a lifetime. You know, after we had been filming a year Kirk Douglas sent me a magnum of champagne with a little note saying, "I hope our second year will be as happy as our first.".