In order to be Miss Anybody you had to have excellent grades, and I had terrible grades because of my dyslexia.
“It was 1943. The U.S. had already entered World War II, so I decided to join the army.”
“There's this certain caliber of dancing I was striving for when I was younger, and it's very hard for me to go back and just do it for fun. But I take all other kinds of classes: I take jazz classes, modern classes, and I love doing that instead of going to the gym. The gym is not very much fun.”