Sinatra asked me out..

The only thing I did at RKO of any note was lose my Texas accent..

I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton..

I was the first movie star to plunge into night-time soap opera..

We had cocktail parties and I'd stay up until 5 in the morning..

My father was a minister, so I was a P.K., a preacher's kid..

I started out as a very young girl in Hollywood doing westerns portraying a mother with a couple of kids..

I never turned down a mother role..

I was a bridesmaid at a wedding in one picture..

I get crushes on directors because they are so brilliant..

I had had no art training..

Sirk was every womans dream of a director..

I was born in Everett; I went through grade school in Everett, high school in Seattle..

I acted three times with Fred MacMurray, three times with Martin and Lewis, four times with Rock Hudson. Three times with Glenn Ford..

Television wasn't prestigious..

Everybody said Peyton Place would be a mistake..