“I’m so grateful that I grew up in the ’40s and ’50s, because of the movies of the era,” said Burnett. “You might look at them now and say, ‘Oh, they’re so old-fashioned,’ but they gave this little girl hope. I never felt cynical, I never felt angry. I had a real Mickey [Rooney] and Judy [Garland] mentality. There is fun. There is music.