Bess Flowers(1898-1984)

She appeared in eight Best Picture Academy Award winners: Grand Hotel (1932), It Happened One Night (1934), You Can't Take It with You (1938), Gone with the Wind (1939), All About Eve (1950), An American in Paris (1951), The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) and Around the World in 80 Days (1956). In addition to those eight films, she also appeared in 20 others which were nominated for Best Picture: One Hour with You (1932), Anthony Adverse (1936), Dodsworth (1936), Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), The Awful Truth (1937), One Hundred Men and a Girl (1937), In Old Chicago (1938), Love Affair (1939), Ninotchka (1939), Heaven Can Wait (1943), Watch on the Rhine (1943), Double Indemnity (1944), Mildred Pierce (1945), The Razor's Edge (1946), Father of the Bride (1950), A Place in the Sun (1951), The Robe (1953), Giant (1956), Witness for the Prosecution (1957) and Judgment at Nuremberg (1961).

[Asked about her career philosophy] I made a good living. I'm lazy, from the South, so I never took anything that was hard. I was always good to Bess.