I toted a gun through all the popular westerns and crime shows going. Stage jobs and radio, film and TV, Bonanaza, Perry Mason, 77 Sunset Strip, Cheyenne, Death Valley Days these were my stepping stones. Really, I don't expect any of you to have heard of him, but in the 20s he created The Ziegfeld Follies and was Broadway's most iconic producer. Perhaps you remember her as Glinda the Good in the 1939 Wizard of OZ? She was also the widow of Florenz Ziegfeld. Most notably, I co-starred with Billie Burke for a few years in a bit of comedy called Mother Was a Bachelor.
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We hum Mozart in intimate moments and had Puccini played as the overture to our wedding in 1974.Īs a child actress, I worked in episodic TV and in the theater: several plays at the Pasadena Playhouse, and the historic Pilgrimage Play with my mother at what is now the John Anson Ford Theatre, opposite the Hollywood Bowl. Truly, Billy and I have been season ticket holders at LA Opera for forty years.
The beautiful music of grand opera was my introduction to theater, and I have adored opera ever since. Evidently I was poised enough to repeat the role at the Hollywood Bowl with Dorothy Kirsten later that same year (1948). I remember walkng on the stage of the historic Shrine Auditorium, taking a solo bow and hearing the huge glorious voice of Eleanor Steber, the American diva playing Cio Cio San. Also I could supply my own kimono, thanks to the loving support of our Japanese gardener's family. With my long ash-blond curls, I was the right size to play the little Eurasian child of the soprano. Madame Butterfly was to be performed for the first time since World War II by the New York Metropolitan Opera. Nevertheless I took the stage through the enterprise of a family friend who was secretary to Sol Hurok, a famous impresarios in Los Angeles. As a lifelong actress, she detested stage-mothers. I wasn't seeking a moppet's career, and neither was my mother, Elizabeth Harrower. My life in show business began at age four.
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