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

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

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

When you're out of sight for as long as I was, there's a funny feeling of betrayal that comes over people when they see you again.

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.

It appeared as if I had invited the audience into the water with me, and it conveyed the sensation that being in there was absolutely delicious

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