Joan Blondell

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

"In the `20s, you were a face. And that was enough. In the `30s, you also had to be a voice. And your voice had to match your face, if you can imagine that. `Jimmy Cagney` and Eddie Robinson had voices that were as important as the characters they played. You knew what you were getting even before you paid for the ticket."

~Joan Blondell

In 1927, while closing the library she worked at, Joan Blondell was raped by a police officer. He told her he would kill her if she told anyone. She kept her silence for decades, until finally telling her grown daughter. She went public with her story in her memoirs.