Richard Hubler: You were saying that your mother was the youngest of ten.
Diane Disney Miller: She was the youngest of ten children. It was a pretty wonderful family. Her mother, I think, had been a school teacher. Mother described her as a very refined, very beautiful person. The fact that she was under five feet tall and weighed 200 pounds had nothing to do with that. At that time that was accepted. I know Lillian Russell is supposed to have weighed something like 160 pounds. And her father had been an Indian scout with General Crook. He was an Indian marshal—when mother was a child—a blacksmith. […]
