What the public expects and what is healthy for an individual are two very different things.

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.

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.

There was a policy at Hughes against drinking at lunch, but the men ignored it

I gave my eardrums to MGM. And it's true: I really did.

Life magazine ran a page featuring me and three other girls that was clearly the precursor of Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues

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.