Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese.
I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me.
Children don't understand about people loving each other and then suddenly not.
I used up every cent I had earned as an actress.
What a different world it was when I first sailed for Europe in 1930, with my mother, sister, and brother to spend six months abroad.
I needed to be accepted, not humored. I intended to act.