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As an actress, I was trained to show emotion I did not feel, or no emotion at all.
There were days that I worked all the time, without a layoff, or a rest, finishing one picture and reporting for another sometimes on the same day.
I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past.
When I met Jack Kennedy, he was a serious young man with a dream. He was not a womanizer, not as I understood the term.
The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title.
Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit.
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.
Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese.
I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.
I learned quickly at Columbia that the only eye that mattered was the one on the camera.
