That town was stifling. Three of us got out. Me, John Barth and the guy who wrote "You Are My Sunshine." My dream was to become a very small blonde movie star like Ida Lupino and those other women I saw up there on the screen during the Depression. (Beatrice Arthur)

That town was stifling. Three of us got out. Me, John Barth and the guy who wrote "You Are My Sunshine." My dream was to become a very small blonde movie star like Ida Lupino and those other women I saw up there on the screen during the Depression.

Beatrice Arthur

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