I always felt that if I made a movie, it would be one movie; I didn't see how they could make 26 swimming movies.

Even though I had a lucrative contract with MGM, I had a husband who was drinking and gambling our money away faster than I could make it.

I took my daily swim at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool despite the presence of onlookers

No one had ever done a swimming movie before so we just made it up as we went along. I ad-libbed all my own underwater movements.

My training in Science of Mind had begun with my mother. She took me to a different church every Sunday, and she encouraged me to question the minister afterward.

Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline, character, and strength that I had started to develop as that little girl in her first swimming pool.

I always felt that if I made a movie, it would be one movie; I didn't see how they could make 26 swimming movies.