My last picture for Warners was Romance on the High Seas. It was Doris Day's first picture; that was before she became a virgin.

— Oscar Levant The Memoirs of an Amnesiac (1965)

Notes from Wikiquote

A later paraphrase of this appeared in The Wit and Wisdom of Hollywood (1972) by Max Wilk: "I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin."

Gene Perret in On the 8th Day — God Laughed (1995)

Memorable Quotations: Jewish Writers of the Past (2005)

as recounted by Levant in A Smattering of Ignorance (1940)

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