Hollywood's Got Its Own Particular Environment.

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What I Found Was An Emotional Consistency With Him. The Words, The Scenes, The Situations - I Wasn't Mimicking What I Thought Branch Rickey's Emotional Reality Would Have Been.

The Job's Always The Same. It Involves Helping To Tell The Story And Creating An Alloy Between Character And Story That Serves The Film.

[jimmy] Breslin's [write] Really Great Book On Branch Rickey. And Branch Rickey Himself Wrote Quite A Lot. There's Some Film And Kinescope From Television.

I Was Always Very Grateful I Was Never Hot. In The Entire Length Of My Career, I Haven't Been The Most Adored.