Victor Mature was a big man; he had a great swagger. I liked him and I knew we'd be good together on screen.

Traveling to swimming meets took me beyond my small-town existence, gave me a hint of the exciting world outside of my own home.

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

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 think it's so funny when people think they can't control a movie star. They can. We're just women, you know

Barely a teenager, Elizabeth Taylor was already more beautiful and voluptuous than Miss America. When she arrived at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel for our magazine shoot, I was bowled over. I couldn't believe she was only fourteen. She filled out a swimsuit better than I did. We did the pictures, including one shot of me teaching her to float. With that superstructure of hers, she floated just fine. What she couldn't do was sink.

I took a job at the pool in order to earn the five cents a day it cost to swim. I counted wet towels. As a bonus, I was allowed to swim during lunchtime.