Annie Ross Smithsonian Interview Block 17 (Q15901)

My real name is Annie Ross. My mother and father were vaudevillians in Scotland. They were on tour. I was born outside of London, in a place called Surrey. There was a tradition in our family - there were five of us in the family, three girls and two boys. As soon as we could walk, even before we could walk, when we were about four weeks old, my father would cradle us in his arms and take us o ...