Working with Ty Power was exciting. In those days, he was the biggest romantic swashbuckler in the world. Murderously handsome! But what I loved most about Ty Power was his wicked sense of humor.

As the 1960s began, a new breed of Hollywood leading lady was emerging. She was elegant, international, and wonderfully comedic.

The Queen Mary was the most civilized and luxurious way one could travel to America in the late 1930s.

In the beginning it was all black and white.

I was born into the most remarkable and eccentric family I could possibly have hoped for.

I had always been a tomboy - I still am, at heart.

I really wanted to be an opera soprano.