The make up took about an hour to put on, but the wig was a thing that bothered me more than anything else.

I should only have been as lucky as Valentino, in the movies - I didnt have to be a gigolo. In real life.

But by the time I was 40, everything was winding down. It started after the war. On the plus side, there was more more products and technology. But for me the nightlife was winding down, the glamour, the fun.

I was wearing corn plasters above and below my toes and taping my ankles twice.

That is perceptive of you, because in this country men dancers have always been viewed with suspicion. If you were an actor, a star, and a dancer, you had to be, or have a name like someone mainstream.

I was born in the USA, which many people still find hard to believe.

George Raft may or may not have gone both ways, but he was very sensitive to what they said about him, and it was one factor why he decided to play all those gangsters in the movies.