The scene where I took my eyelashes off we did in two takes.

I'd say my happiest moment as an actress came when I learned I'd won the Look Magazine Best Supporting Actress Award for 1956 in The Killing.

I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent.

Elisha Cook was a darling, and full of the devil. A wired - up little fellow who was always busy, busy, busy.

For many years my inherited arthritis had given me problems.

I'm 5 foot 9, and there were two stars in my life who didn't mind that I was taller than they - George Raft and John Garfield

I got to know Sterling Hayden fairly well. He was a quiet man, who got more complicated as the years went on.