Sometimes, I wonder what I'm doing here.

The Thin Man was a good break, because it was highly popular. I played a gigolo in it.

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

If you can believe it, Hollywood wanted to change my birthdate. I was born after Valentine's Day, so they wanted to change it to February 14. A Latin lover should be born on Valentine's Day. I said no.

Bugsy Siegel. The mobster with the beautiful blue eyes.

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 out dancing with one actress or another. And that got press. Even when it didn't, the whole town knew I was a dancing fool, and since I couldn't very well dance with a man, they saw me dancing with a lady, and they assumed the rest.