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

I was taken to concerts when I was six, seven years old, and sat in a box throughout the whole evening.

I was born in New Orleans, and I wasn't allowed to go to the movies.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Kitty Carlisle