In ’48 when I left Metro, I tried to go back to radio, but somehow just didn’t do well at it.

Of course, in later years, I’d studied acting more than ever before – mostly with the late Stella Adler, who was marvelous! – but in my earlier years, I couldn’t afford to do this.

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’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.

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

This has taught me that being pleasant is always so much more productive, for I know well the rewards for being good-natured.

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 thought my nose was too prominent so I had this corrected via plastic surgery in 1959.

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

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