Due to a big bust in Cuba, my father's business suffered badly, so I was free to choose my own career. I became a professional dancer, and I went on the road and started making real money.

It's a new town. The old elegance is gone. It used to be one big family, this industry.

I know Raft did have some genuine affairs with actresses.

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

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.

I was supposed to be a romancer, either wooing the leading lady or competing with the leading man for her.

Due to a big bust in Cuba, my father's business suffered badly, so I was free to choose my own career. I became a professional dancer, and I went on the road and started making real money.