Jody Lawrance(1930-1986)

Made ends meet by working as a waitress in an ice cream parlour near the UCLA campus in 1955.

[on why she wound up a waitress at an ice-cream parlor in Los Angeles at one point in her career] I see now that I was temperamental. I didn't cooperate with publicity. I didn't want to do cheesecake, not because my legs were bad, because they aren't. My entire training was as an actress and I didn't want to submit to the starlet routine. If I had it to do over again, I would do it differently. I realize now that cheesecake and publicity are an important part of the movie business.