The Lives and Loves of Daisy and Violet Hilton: A True Story of Conjoined Twins (57 page)

1.
“The film became tied up in litigation”: Fraser, op. cit., 131.

2.
“It was not a production in which I took much pride:” ibid.

3.
“I never felt more sorry for anyone in my life”: Jim Moore in Bill Hendricks “Ex-Spouse: Siamese twins’ life normal,”
The Sunday Express-News
, after 1969.

4.
“Daisy and Violet were the attraction at an outdoor theater”: Philip Morris, Charlotte, North Carolina, interview with author, September 27, 1995.

5.
Classic Picture, Inc. had debts totaling $336,795 and assets of a mere $2000:
Variety
, June 10, 1953.

6.
The Hilton Sisters’ Snack Bar was swarming:
Miami News
, June 6, 1966.

7.
“Because we have so enjoyed our lives as entertainers”: ibid.

8.
A newspaperman who had been familiar with the twins’ past: Daisy,
Cincinnati Post
, June 13, 1958.

9.
“We can’t say anything bad about it”: Violet, ibid.

10.
“We shun the things we don’t like”: Daisy, ibid.

11.
“They said they were looking for work”: Morris, op. cit.

12.
Morris talked of the frustration: ibid.

13.
“We learned how desperate things were for the girls”: ibid.

14.
“The girls seemed to be in one of those time warps”: ibid.

15.
“They left a vivid impression on me”: Rosemary Land, Charlotte, North Carolina, interview with author July 7, 1995.

16.
“Wherever the twins’ movies was shown”: Morris, op. cit.

17.
“We tried to suggest”: Morris, ibid.

18.
“The thought of their making a final exit”: ibid.

19.
They were found in contempt: Kerry Segrave,
Drive-In Theaters: A History from Their Inception in 1933
. Jefferson, North Carolina and London: McFarland & Company, Inc. Publishers, 1992.

20.
“It seemed like the theater’s operators were always getting in hot water”; Curtis McCauley, Monroe, North Carolina, interview with author, January 8, 2005.

21.
“Dad told the twins not to worry”: Keziah, op. cit.

22.
“I felt so sorry for them”: Marlene McCauley, Monroe, North Carolina, interview with author, July 11, 1995.

23.
“Somebody would say, ‘Here comes the Siamese’ ”: ibid.

24.
“Clegg put a finger to his lips”: Keziah, op. cit.

Chapter Twenty-One
Pages 368–389

1.
“What I didn’t know”: John Dunnagan, Mooresville, North Carolina, interview with author, October 11, 1995.

2.
“We were only traveling the mile or so”: ibid.

3.
“Rue looked them squarely in the eyes”: ibid.

4.
“I can’t tell you how much joy I felt”: Bishop Ernest A. Fitzgerald, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, interview with author, September 4, 1995.

5.
“Mr. Reid worked as hard anybody”: Reverend John Sills, Charlotte, North Carolina, July 7, 1995.

6.
“She took them shopping”: Dunnagan, op. cit.

7.
Because the twins were lonely and hungering for companionship: Dot Jackson “The Only Bargain We Get Is Our Weight For A Penny,”
Charlotte Observer
, January 6, 1969.

8.
Not all the supermarket’s workers: Guy Rodgers, Rock Hill, South Carolina, interview with author October 25, 1995.

9.
“Guy rigged up a couple of produce scales”: Linda Beatty, Denver, North Carolina, interview with author October, 25, 1995.

10.
“Now and then, when Daisy and Violet were walking”: ibid.

11.
I don’t think Daisy and Vi ever told us their age”: Pauline Harton, Charlotte, North Carolina interview with author, November 20, 1995.

12.
“I think they were grateful to have steady jobs”: Beatty, op. cit.

13.
“Because I had all these magic props”: Gene Keeney, Indianapolis, Indiana, interview with author, June 20, 1995.

14.
“Whenever an invitation was extended to the twins”: Harton, op. cit.

15.
“A father came in with a small boy”: Rodgers, op. cit.

16.
“I think it was in the early afternoon”: Sills, op. cit.

17.
Indeed, Daisy and Violet retained such a strong aversion to doctors: Rodgers, op. cit.

18.
Apparently traveling by taxi: Mecklenberg County medical examiner’s report, January 6, 1969.

19.
“I know this”: Dunnagan, op. cit.

20.
When Daisy and Violet didn’t want to be bothered: Charley Reid in Tommy Tomlinson: “A Story of Two Sisters, Together, Always,”
Charlotte Observer
, December 7, 1997.

21.
After calling the twins’ cottage repeatedly: Reid, op. cit.

22.
“How many of you,” he asked, “are here to grieve?”: Henry Woodhead “City’s Siamese Twins Buried Simply,”
Charlotte News
, January 9, 1969.

23.
“Daisy and Violet were in show business”: Sills, op. cit.

24.
At the time of their death, their combined assets: filed January 16, 1970, Superior Court, Mecklenburg County, Charlotte, North Carolina.

25.
“Aunt Dot felt terrible”: Brenda McCallum, Charlotte, North Carolina, interview with author, May 14, 1999.