I started out as a very young girl in Hollywood doing westerns portraying a mother with a couple of kids.

Television wasn't prestigious.

I had had no art training.

The only thing I did at RKO of any note was lose my Texas accent.

I acted three times with Fred MacMurray, three times with Martin and Lewis, four times with Rock Hudson. Three times with Glenn Ford.

We had cocktail parties and I'd stay up until 5 in the morning.

Everybody said Peyton Place would be a mistake.