What impresses me is the young actors with terrific talent arriving on the scene. They'd have blown us all away in the old days. Guys like Brad Pitt.

Natalie's estate is handled by Global Icons, and they police the world so her picture isn't on a T-shirt or coffee cup unless we approve of it.

I liked working in a series, going to work every day and not having to leave town for long locations. I was producing them and building an audience.

In the contract days, the big studios groomed us to play particular roles and we would stay with the image they gave us and insisted on.

It's sensational to be a part of a series that takes on a life of its own.

I went to Europe with Spencer Tracy. What a thrill, working with John Ford when I was a kid.

Occasionally, on screen, Barbara [Stanwyck] had a wary, watchful quality about her that I've noticed in other people who had bad childhoods; they tend to keep an eye on life because they don't think it can be trusted. After her mother was killed by a streetcar, she had been raised in Brooklyn by her sisters, and from things she said, I believe she had been abused as a child. She had lived an entirely different life than mine, that's for sure, which is one reason I found her so fascinating. I think her early life was one reason she had such authenticity as an actress, and as a person.