One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.

I like clean ladies and nice ladies.

On the stage of the Italian Terrace Room in the William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1938 ... the place where Champagne Music was born.

Music was my joy, my home, the one place I felt happy and secure.

If I live to be 90, and I'm planning to, I'll always love performing for a live audience.

For a while we had trouble trying to get the sound of a champagne cork exploding out of the bottle. I solved the problem by sticking my finger in my mouth and popping it out.

Sounds always fascinated me.