Musicals became too expensive. When we were working at MGM, there was a whole company of talent - stars, directors, choreographers, song writers, conductors, arrangers. All worked under contract at regular salaries. To gather people like that today would be enormously costly.
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It's a terrible thing to say I know. I've only done what I wanted to do. It's a real luxury. I only made the pictures I wanted to make and lived in the places I've wanted to live. I'm very, very happy.
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Once I make a picture, I never look at it again.
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When I was 50, I said, 'That's it,' And they said, 'How' I said, 'What do you mean how I've been working now for 50 years now.'
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I've had 79 to 80 years of show business. I started when I was 5 with a man called Tom Mix. I didn't have time to go to school because I was in silent movies, I was in radio, I was in burlesque, I worked with the circus. I'm all show business!
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