- Hear
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I took a job at the pool in order to earn the five cents a day it cost to swim. I counted wet towels. As a bonus, I was allowed to swim during lunchtime.
- Nov 07, 2020
I always felt that if I made a movie, it would be one movie; I didn't see how they could make 26 swimming movies.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never walked the streets of New York hoping to be a musical comedy star. For one thing, they would have thought I was too tall, because l was five feet eight and a half, and they were all little bitty things running around in the studio at that time.
- Remember
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember when I first walked into Mayer's cavernous office. You had to walk 50 yards to get to him, and in that time he could really study everything about you.
- Established
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- Nov 07, 2020
Critics established a snobbery toward me.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was the only swimmer in movies. Tarzan was long gone, and he couldn't have done them anyway; he could never have gotten into my bathing suit.
- Gave
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- Nov 07, 2020
I gave my eardrums to MGM. And it's true: I really did.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was 15, and the years of hard swimming had packed muscle on my frame and made me very strong. Not as strong as a football player, but strong enough to inflict heavy damage.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
It appeared as if I had invited the audience into the water with me, and it conveyed the sensation that being in there was absolutely delicious.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's so funny when people think they can't control a movie star. They can. We're just women, you know.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're out of sight for as long as I was, there's a funny feeling of betrayal that comes over people when they see you again.
- Invisible
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once I married Fernando, I became invisible.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
What the public expects and what is healthy for an individual are two very different things.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline, character, and strength that I had started to develop as that little girl in her first swimming pool.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can't all win Olympic medals. Even I never won one.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Traveling to swimming meets took me beyond my small-town existence, gave me a hint of the exciting world outside of my own home.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything about my teenage life was almost ideal.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The newspapers loved pinup pictures of pretty young swimmers, and as a national champion, I got more than my share of space in the sports pages.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life magazine ran a page featuring me and three other girls that was clearly the precursor of Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues.
- Hotel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I took my daily swim at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool despite the presence of onlookers.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
Clark Gable was the first to have called me a mermaid.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the time I got home at night, my eyes were so chlorinated I saw rings around every light.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
With two little boys in diapers, I had to keep it simple if I were going to have a life at all.
- Plant
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- Nov 07, 2020
I ended up buying a restaurant. Already we had invested in a gas station and a metal products plant.
- Lunch
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a policy at Hughes against drinking at lunch, but the men ignored it.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Howard Hughes himself was a regular at the restaurant, and in a way it became his headquarters, too. Howard had recently relocated to Las Vegas, so when he wanted to do business in Los Angeles, he went into the back of our restaurant to use the telephone.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Victor Mature was a big man; he had a great swagger. I liked him and I knew we'd be good together on screen.
- Husband
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- Nov 07, 2020