Detroit was one of the towns where I would appear on a kiddie TV show on Saturday morning as Shirley Jean of the Our Gang/Little Rascals, and disrobe on stage at night for the little kiddies' parents.
I see more flesh in television commercials today than I used to see in burlesque.
[on her "Our Gang" time] [We were] all just kids playing together. We had fun. The mothers, on the other hand, were awful. Stage mothers are just vile women, including my own. [It was] my mother's dream, but it wasn't mine.