Marie Windsor
I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent.
I got to know Sterling Hayden fairly well. He was a quiet man, who got more complicated as the years went on.
I feel people have more time to think about it if they get a Valentine. Christmas is too crazy with other things.
I didn't know I was doing film noir, I thought they were detective stories with low lighting!
I can't remember anybody saying, Let's get this show on the road.
I believe like Burt Reyolds who on a really great tv interview with Barbara Walters said we have to take what goes with the territory... that this includes signing autographs and being gracious to the fans who've made our careers possible.
How could I be bitter when I've loved every bit of what I have been doing in films?!
He later taught me to twirl guns, and I did a lot of stunt work in this western that normally an actress simply would not do.
Gig was bubbly... warm... humorous... kind of a funny, even silly, guy with a big heart. But he only seemed like a free soul... even then I suspected that somewhere inside of himself, he felt very lost.
For many years my inherited arthritis had given me problems.
For instance, it was very rare for anyone there with dogs to allow them into the house.
Eventually, with the help of our nurses, I could stand for a few minutes and take a few steps with a walker and then a cane... and what a great moment it was when I was able to drive and go to the market!
Elisha Cook was a darling, and full of the devil. A wired - up little fellow who was always busy, busy, busy.
But painting can be too lonely... I like being with people too much to have ever made that my life's work.
But in the earlier days, studios and agents insisted you change your name even if it wasn't too long for a marquee.
But I've often questioned my decision to have my nose reshaped... I thought perhaps I'd be offered more sympathetic roles if this feature was less acquiline.
But he was still in love with his first wife, so we rarely lived together. I soon sought and obtained an annulment and decided to really concentrate on my work.
Bill Elliott saw the test I'd made as well as the George Raft film and when he learned I was a horsewoman, he fought with the studio to use me instead of one of their contract players.
And I've got it all - except satisfaction in my work, but that's only because I don't work often enough to suit me.
After surgery and my time in intensive care, I was deposited in my room and I realized I was without back pain, but that I couldn't move my legs.