I was plunged into what was known as the debutante social whirl. This was one of the ways fathers justified their own hard work and sacrifices.

The Hollywood structure was monopolistic, run by four or five big studios.

In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening.

The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title

I'm not sure I can explain the nature of Jack Kennedy's charm, but he took life just as it came.

Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator.

I simply did not want my face to be my talent.