“I was taking my wig off and somebody knocked and there stood Cary Grant! My feet wouldn’t move. He’s saying how much he enjoyed me in the show and going on and all I could say was thank you. He climbed three flights of stairs and I’m waving my wig at him. He said he would like to take me out and buy me a drink. In the meantime, I’m looking over at my rotten jeans on my dressing table and I thought, 'My God.' And I did have a date. I wanted to tell him I had a date but maybe all three of us could go out, but as soon as he heard the word 'date,' the door slowly began to close and he was gone. I’ve thought about maybe he wanted a piece of ass — he might very well have. He was a gentleman’s man as well as a ladies’ man.”

 (Carleton Carpenter, alla nascita Carleton Upham Carpenter Jr., attore, scrittore e compositore; Bennington, 10 luglio 1926 – Warwick, 31 gennaio 2022)