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.

Life magazine ran a page featuring me and three other girls that was clearly the precursor of Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues

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

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

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 remember when I first walked into Mayer's cavernous office. You had to walk 50 yards to get to him, and in that time he could really study everything about you.

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