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Pat Perkins as Ola Mae


Her bio on IMDb:

Priscilla "Pat" Pierre Perkins was an actress with day jobs that ranged from cab driving to nursing to bartending. She died on January 24th at her home in New Orleans, Louisiana. She was 76 years old. From 1977 on, Ms. Perkins had small parts in many big budget films such as Pretty Baby (1978) and JFK (1991). She got her start in the movie business when a counselor at the U.S. Employment Service said the production company filming the New Orleans based "Pretty Baby" was looking for someone of her age and stature. She earned enough money from her multiple roles in that film to start her own taxicab business, and continued to land small roles in major motion pictures. She was a lifelong resident of New Orleans.


She had the great line, "You pushing far, Violet." Except when I first heard this I thought she was saying, "You pushing fire, Violet."

Many years ago I attempted to move to New Orleans and went to the employment services, but my job counselor didn't look at me and say I was right for a part, LOL. They did have a table there for applications to fill out if you wanted to be an extra in movies filmed there, but I didn't fill one out.



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