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When I was 18, my editor at the Toronto Telegram sent me to interview Anne Jeffreys, who was starring in Kismet at the O'Keefe Centre. Anne Jeffreys! Be still my heart! She had played that sexy ghost Marian Kirby opposite her handsome husband Robert Sterling on the TV series of Topper. Onstage, she was even sexier as Lalume opposite Alfred Drake. Anne Jeffreys was a delightful Southern lady from Goldsboro, North Carolina and while we chatted her two little sons scampered around the suite. Years later, I would see her fleetingly at various Hollywood events - still beautiful, still delightful, still Southern. We finally got to speak at length today about Nelson Eddy, Lawrence Tierney, Kurt Weill, Cole Porter and Leo G. Carroll.