American - Musician | September 3, 1910 - April 14, 2007
My mother thought Hollywood was a den of iniquity, and people came to terrible bad ends there.
Kitty Carlisle
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I was born in New Orleans, and I wasn't allowed to go to the movies.
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It was considered oh, not proper for children to go to the movies.
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I was taken to concerts when I was six, seven years old, and sat in a box throughout the whole evening.
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I was near sighted. I was born myopic, and I got glasses, right after that.
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The next thing that happened to me was that I, we, were living in Paris where I then grew up.
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So in those days, they were scooping up any young person who could sing and look decent, ah, at the same time.
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So I got caught up in the same wave as everybody else and went right out to Hollywood, to make movies.
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And I wasn't crazy about Hollywood in those days.
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It never occurred to me that I looked like a movie star.
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And I didn't, that's why my career was very short lived.
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I get on the floor, and I can do things a woman a fifth my age can't do.
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