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Mercedes McCambridge

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I am rich from the bequests other gifted people have seen fit to leave to me.


— Mercedes McCambridge


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I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.


— Mercedes McCambridge


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I've always had bronchitis. I've been administered the Sacrament of Death three times for it.


— Mercedes McCambridge


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My admiration for the phenomenon of Alcoholics Anonymous is boundless.


— Mercedes McCambridge


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I lose all control after two drinks of anything.


— Mercedes McCambridge


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I never wanted a Guardian Angel. I didn't ask for one. One was assigned to me.


— Mercedes McCambridge


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If I have to climb to heaven on a ladder, I shall decline the invitation.


— Mercedes McCambridge


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A rich man can afford to be generous to many.


— Mercedes McCambridge


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Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Stevenson.


— Mercedes McCambridge


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Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time.


— Mercedes McCambridge


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Did you know about Mercedes McCambridge?

During the marriage and afterward McCambridge battled alcoholism often being hospitalized after episodes of heavy drinking. In the mid-1970s McCambridge briefly took a position as director of Livingrin a Pennsylvania rehabilitation center for alcoholics. In 1954 the actress co-starred with Joan Crawford and Sterling Hayden in the offbeat western drama Johnny Guitar now regarded as a cult classic.

Orson Welles called her "the world's greatest living radio actress. Carlotta Mercedes McCambridge (March 16 1916 – March 2 2004) was an Academy Award-winning and Golden Globe-winning American actress of radio stage film and television.

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