Occupation: Singer Birth: September 3, 1910 Death: April 17, 2007
TV cameras seem to add ten pounds to me. So I make it a policy never to eat TV cameras..
I was near sighted. I was born myopic, and I got glasses, right after that..
I get on the floor, and I can do things a woman a fifth my age can't do..
It was considered oh, not proper for children to go to the movies..
I was born in New Orleans, and I wasn't allowed to go to the movies..
I was taken to concerts when I was six, seven years old, and sat in a box throughout the whole evening..
It never occurred to me that I looked like a movie star..
My mother thought Hollywood was a den of iniquity, and people came to terrible bad ends there..
And I didn't. That's why my career was very short-lived..
And I wasn't crazy about Hollywood in those days..
So I got caught up in the same wave as everybody else and went right out to Hollywood, to make movies..