Adeline De Walt Reynolds Biography
She survived the death of her husband in 1905, the San Francisco earthquake in 1906 and raising four children with no money. In 1926, when she was 64 she became one of the most mature freshman ever to enter the University of California. She graduated 6 years later with her B.A. degree. In 1940 she went to Hollywood, where she began her acting career.
Best known for her role in Shirley Temple's Storybook production of "Sleeping Beauty", although she is probably seen most often in "Going My Way" as Father Fitzgibbon's elderly mother. Date of Birth 19 September 1862, Benton County, Iowa, USA Date of Death 13 August 1961, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
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Adeline De Walt Reynolds Quotes
A Search for All Books
Librarian:
What are you boys looking for?
Lionel:
Books.
Librarian:
What books are you looking for?
Lionel:
All of them.
Librarian:
What do you want with them?
Lionel:
We wanna look at em.
Librarian:
Books are for reading.
Lionel:
Can't I just Look at em?
Librarian:
That's not what the public library is for boy, but you can look into them and look at the pictures in them. What do you want the outsides for?
Lionel:
I like to. can't I?
Librarian:
There's no law against it... Who's this?
Lionel:
That's Ulysses. He can't read.
Librarian:
Can you?
Lionel:
No. But he can't either. That's why we're friends, he's the only other man I know who can't read
Librarian:
One day, when you learn to read, you'll find there's a great deal to be said for the inside of books. I've been reading for 70 years and it hasn't been nearly long enough. Now run along and look at the books.
Lionel:
Yes ma'am.
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