The words of choreographer 'Onna White' as adapted from vintage material originally available at the time of the movies release...

'The only thing worse than stage mothers is ballerina mothers. We all know about the good ladies who probably never danced more than a waltz themselves, but who insist on bringing up their daughters to be the next Pavlova. I don't think a girl has a chance of becoming a dancer if it is forced upon her. You've got to want to be something for yourself, and not because someone else out of the best intentions in the world talked you into it.

I was one of the lucky ones my family didn't make me a dancer out of me, in fact I thought I wanted to be a singer but I was a sickly child and some exercises the doctor prescribed for me led me by chance to the basic movements of dancing. Nor am I pressing my daughter to dance, or as the song has it, for a life upon the wicked stage. It's a fine life but only if it is the life you want for yourself.'

Onna White Choreographer (1922-2005)

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