Raft told me how to walk with him in a scene: We'd start off in a long shot normal, and about the time we got together in a close-up, I'd be bending my knees so I'd be shorter.

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

I'm 5 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 got to know Sterling Hayden fairly well. He was a quiet man, who got more complicated as the years went on.

That was so scary, the last scene Heath and I shot together. We finally get to say to each other what we want to say, and I was really nervous because there were so many emotions, and both men have been holding so much back. Luckily, the dialogue is so great that it worked out.

For many years my inherited arthritis had given me problems.