The newspapers loved pinup pictures of pretty young swimmers, and as a national champion, I got more than my share of space in the sports pages.

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.

Everything about my teenage life was almost ideal.

The animus is symbolized by male figures appearing in a womans dreams and fantasies, as a husband, son, father, lover, Prince Charming.

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

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.

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.