KITTY CARLISLE

My mother thought Hollywood was a den of iniquity, and people came to terrible bad ends there.

I was near sighted. I was born myopic, and I got glasses, right after that.

And I wasn't crazy about Hollywood in those days.

And I didn't, that's why my career was very short lived.

So I got caught up in the same wave as everybody else and went right out to Hollywood, to make movies.

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 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.

So in those days, they were scooping up any young person who could sing and look decent, ah, at the same time.

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.

My mother thought Hollywood was a den of iniquity, and people came to terrible bad ends there.

It never occurred to me that I looked like a movie star.

It was considered oh, not proper for children to go to the movies.

And I didn't, that's why my career was very short lived.

So in those days, they were scooping up any young person who could sing and look decent, ah, at the same time.

The next thing that happened to me was that I, we, were living in Paris where I then grew up.

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.

So I got caught up in the same wave as everybody else and went right out to Hollywood, to make movies.

And I wasn't crazy about Hollywood in those days.

I started off with the quality of life, with peotic allusions, with a great deal of philosophical background, and I changed my pitch to what the arts do for the economy.