Clark Gable was the first to have called me a mermaid.

I ended up buying a restaurant. Already we had invested in a gas station and a metal products plant.

By the time I got home at night, my eyes were so chlorinated I saw rings around every light.

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 was all in gold sequins for Million Dollar Mermaid, 50 feet in the air

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

I always took it for granted that there would be life after Hollywood.