"He was really rather shy. Sometimes, after he would play a scene, everybody would applaud, and he would back into the wall! Always he was so helpful and so inspiring to me, and when you're with the greatest, you have to try to come up to his level. He knew he was doing that... he did it many times before."

(Marian Marsh, pseudonimo di Violet Krauth, attrice di Hollywood famosa negli anni '30; Trinidad e Tobago, 17 ottobre 1913 – Palm Desert, 9 novembre 2006)