Annie Ross Quotes

I`m feeling pretty good right now, though I can never be totally satisfied with myself. But that`s what makes me work harder. It was really important to get this first win, and our confidence is immeasurable right now.

Jack Hylton said: `I want you, I want you, but I can`t offer you the part '“ it`s for a 35-year-old woman`. So, he said: `I tell you what, I`ll make you the understudy and you`ll be in the chorus. And I said: `But I can`t dance!` He replied: `Good, we`ll put you on the end of the line and make you the funny chorus girl who always messes things up!`

I asked the producer who else is doing the show. And he replied: `Dorothy Paul, and, of course, McLean.` I said: `Shirley?` And he said: `No '“ Una!`.

Cranks was a huge success in London. It was Princess Margaret`s favourite show, so she brought her sister along to see it, which helped with the publicity. It was brilliant. I wore a tutu, with fishnet stockings and high heels and long gloves, and I had one of Vidal Sassoon`s first huge haircuts that were just coming in at the time, a kind of Shirley MacLaine-ish thing. Because it didn`t have a story-line and the songs weren`t conventional, they didn`t know what to make of it over here in the States and it flopped in New York.