It was so satisfying for me - a great reward, just to see it done well. And it was beautifully directed by my daughter Susan Riskin. Imagine, a play about my mother directed by my daughter?!

Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing.

Juan Tripp was a friend. Good name for an airline man, huh? Juan Tripp after another?

There were shots of Kong pulling at my clothes, but only in horizontal and never from above. Never from above.

I don't know why Sinclair Lewis fell in love with me. He didn't get even the slightest response from me. But his letters were lovely. And the poems he wrote me were lovely. I used some of them in my book.

Actually, the camera was never overhead at any time. It was always a side view of me. Subsequently, after the picture was released, I saw some scenes from above and my clothes being pulled-and I think that was added later.

There is a lot of strength and intelligence in Hollywood.