- After filming her first week on the set of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982)she had not encountered The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982), but Parton encountered her. Early one morning Dolly was on the set with her after viewing the dallies the night before and walked right up to her and said with a big smile on her face, "You're the girl with the pretty titties".
- Was selected the winner of the Miss Broadway contest--a beauty contest--and went to Los Angeles to guest on The Morning Show (Regis Philbin, Cyndy Garvey) (1983). In L.A. at the time there was a chain of department stores called The Broadway, and Philbin thought that was the "Miss Broadway" contest she had won. He asked her if by chance she worked in "Lingerie" She replied, "Only in movies".
- She was cast in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982) when three of the actresses playing the "Chicken Ranch" girls quit because they didn't want to do nudity.
- Got to make her first appearance on a national telethon by using a pay phone in the ladies room of a Chinese restaurant across from Warner Brothers and called Lou Brown, the conductor for The Jerry Lewis Telethon., who didn't have time to audition her. She let the phone chord, dangle and sang a show tune for him full-out right then and there and they brought her into Las Vegas to do the show. sight unseen.
- Her cabaret act has taken her to Germany, London, Nassau, Bermuda, Japan, Aruba, Bahamas.
- Won a citation from the US government for "The Annie Gaybis Show" with gospel singer Sara James, a USO tour that traveled to military bases in the Philippines, Thailand and The Marshall Islands.
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