I have never been an innovator, a creative genius.

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

Over and over I marvel at the blessings of my life: Each year has grown better than the last.

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.

When my parents first arrived there, North Dakota had just been admitted to the Union, and the country was still wild and harsh.

I always worried I'd forget my lines or say the wrong words or the audience would laugh in the wrong places.

Boys, if you don't stick together, how do you expect me to follow you-ah?