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

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.

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

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

Everything about my teenage life was almost ideal.

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

I was the only swimmer in movies. Tarzan was long gone, and he couldn't have done them anyway; he could never have gotten into my bathing suit