Editing Rudy Vallée (section)

===Temperament===
NBC announcer [[George Ansbro]] wrote in his memoirs that Vallée "had quite a temper and a very foul mouth... almost always the butt of his nastiness was the orchestra... his outbursts were mean-spirited, and he didn't care who overheard".<ref name="Ansbro">{{cite book |last=Ansbro |first=George |title=I Have a Lady in the Balcony: Memoirs of a Broadcaster in Radio and Television |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=paD3WwlxmGAC&pg=PA89 |access-date=21 December 2018 |date=1 February 2000 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-7864-4318-5 |pages=89–}}</ref> However, Alton Cook wrote, "Vallée may be fuming at his orchestra, but a Vallée hour rehearsal never quite loses its air of being a gathering of old friends... Rudy is grimly serious about rehearsal. He sometimes has his band spend a quarter-hour going over one short passage that doesn't satisfy him. On those occasions his temper wears thin..."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Cook |first1=Alton |title=Rudy Acts Like Real Tough Guy |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1144&dat=19370418&id |access-date=January 15, 2016 |work=The Pittsburgh Press |date=April 18, 1937 }}</ref>

In a heated dispute with producer [[George White (producer)|George White]] on the set of the 1934 film ''[[George White's Scandals (1934 film)|George White's Scandals]]'', White struck Vallée in the jaw. Dorothy Brooks wrote in 1936, "Other stars on the air have their troubles, their disagreements, and yet you don't read about their ending in black eyes. Only Rudy Vallee seems to figure in endings of this kind." In an interview with Brooks, Vallée claimed he found fighting "savage and stupid" and "the wrong way to try to solve problems, because it never solves them." When asked why he fought, he replied, "I just lost my temper. I'll admit I have a too-quick temper."<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Brooks |first=Dorothy |date=August 1936 |title=Why I Always Have to Fight |url=https://archive.org/stream/radiomi00macf#page/n335/mode/2up |magazine=Radio Mirror |location=Broadway, New York |access-date=December 31, 2015 }}</ref>