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You Know, The Period Of World War I And The Roaring Twenties Were Really Just About The Same As Today. You Worked, And You Made A Living If You Could, And You Tired To Make The Best Of Things. For An Actor Or A Dancer, It Was No Different Then Than Today. It Was A Struggle.

My Father Was Totally Irish, And So I Went To Ireland Once. I Found It To Be Very Much Like New York, For It Was A Beautiful Country, And Both The Women And Men Were Good-looking.

My Childhood Was Surrounded By Trouble, Illness, And My Dad's Alcoholism, But As I Said, We Just Didn't Have The Time To Be Impressed By All Those Misfortunes. I Have An Idea That The Irish Possess A Built-in Don't-give-a-damn That Helps Them Through All The Stress.

Perhaps People, And Kids Especially, Are Spoiled Today, Because All The Kids Today Have Cars, It Seems. When I Was Young You Were Lucky To Have A Bike.

Though I Soon Became Typecast In Hollywood As A Gangster And Hoodlum, I Was Originally A Dancer, An Irish Hoofer, Trained In Vaudeville Tap Dance. I Always Leapt At The Opportunity To Dance In Films Later On.