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Margot Grahame

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Margo. The 'T' is silent as in Harlow.
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When asked by Jean Harlow whether her name was pronounced "Margo" or "Margott"
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Mark my words: great quotations and the stories behind them by Nigel Rees (2002), p.63
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This exchange is also attributed to Margot Asquith, but Rees traces it to Grahame and concludes it was transferred to a more famous Margot when Margot Grahame's star waned. Apparently Grahame didn't intend a put-down and only realized later what she had said.

 
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