Beauty is a valuable asset, but it is not the whole cheese.
I traveled with my mother, Lela, and there was never enough money. I always had to roll down my silk stockings and carry a doll when we bought train tickets so I could go half-fare. If we had $3, we always figured how to tip for the trunks and still eat.
Gossip is hardly uplifting.
Girls can do everything men can do...just backwards and in heels
There's nothing a man can do, that I can't do better and in heels
Over the years, myths were built up about my relationship with Fred Astaire. The general public thought he was a Svengali, who snapped his fingers for his little Trilby to obey; in their eyes, my career was his creation.