I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.
As an actress, I was trained to show emotion I did not feel, or no emotion at all.
I was not cut out to be a rebel.
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 Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941.
Cars, furs, and gems were not my weaknesses.