This popular performer would dismiss critics’ poor reviews with the phrase, “I cried all the way to the bank.”
- Gypsie Rose Lee
- Lawrence Welk
- Liberace
- Little Richard
Liberace. The phrase originated in a 1946 Waterloo, Iowa, Daily Courier newspaper article about fight manager Eddie Walker. Flamboyant pianist Liberace popularized it.
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