My childhood wasn't very happy. It's a long, grim story about being a Jew in a small southern town.
Stanley DonenYou see, it took me so long, it was such a struggle, to move myself out of musicals - because I had had a success, nobody wanted to allow me to direct a non-musical picture. It was so hard. And the only way I could get it going was to become a producer myself.
Stanley Donen