I Didn't Want To Be

I Arrived In Hollywood Twenty Pounds Overweight And As Strong As An Ox. But If I Put On A White Tails And Tux Like Fred Astaire, I Still Looked Like A Truck Driver.

I Arrived In Hollywood Twenty Pounds Overweight And As Strong As An Ox.

Fred Astaire Represented The Aristocracy, I Represented The Proletariat.

When Ginger Rogers Danced With Astaire, It Was The Only Time In The Movies When You Looked At The Man, Not The Woman.

It Fit Into My Scheme Of Things For Many Reasons. At The Time It Was True That Male Dancers Were Looked Down Upon, And It Was True That A Lot Of The Male Dancers Were Effeminate. But What I Was Really Trying To Do Was Develop Something That Would Be American.