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Baby, I've never been drunk in public and I never run around with men half my age. The dames I started out with are all batty today. They had their looks and nothing more and now they think they're finished.

— Yvonne De Carlo A girl no longer, but . . . De Carlo's a beauty still (1975)

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I was on cloud nine all the time. After I made my hit in Salome, Universal sent me to New York so I could learn to be a proper movie star.

Three Show‐Biz Girls and How They Grew (1971)

Reality to me is a home, my kids, best friends and only then a career and the limelight. I never thought like Marilyn Monroe that I was washed up when I was 35.

A girl no longer, but . . . De Carlo's a beauty still (1975)

One critic called me one of the most magnificent resources Canada has allowed to escape to the United States. Because I was born and raised in Vancouver and lived up there until I was 17.

A girl no longer, but . . . De Carlo's a beauty still (1975)

I'm from Hollywood. I'm too dumb to be nervous about New York.

Three Show‐Biz Girls and How They Grew (1971)

My mother was the shaping force in my life. Don't ask me how but she always had money for my dancing lessons. She was convinced I was going to be somebody.

A girl no longer, but . . . De Carlo's a beauty still (1975)

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