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

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

I get on the floor, and I can do things a woman a fifth my age can't do.
Kitty Carlisle

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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