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.

I had had no art training.

I never turned down a mother role.

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

I was a bridesmaid at a wedding in one picture.

Everybody said Peyton Place would be a mistake.

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

Sirk was every woman's dream of a director.

Television wasn't prestigious.

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.