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

I had had no art training.

Everybody said Peyton Place would be a mistake.

Television wasn't prestigious.

I was a bridesmaid at a wedding in one picture.

I was born in Everett; I went through grade school in Everett, high school in Seattle.

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