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