The 91-year-old, who was Oscar-nominated for her portrayal of a script reader who falls in love with a kept man, looks back on the film that she says 'haunts my entire life'
, all of whom have been dead for decades. "I don't mean in a bad way. It's just a presence in my life that will stay with me long after I'm gone."
, a Paramount talent scout who had been in the audience asked her to come by the studio for a screen test. Shortly thereafter, she read opposite, later TV's Superman, and was signed to a seven-year contract that permitted her to continue to attend college part-time, placating her parents., "who was old enough to be my father." She made promotional appearances alongside other starlets, including oneof Fox.
She eventually got a call from the studio's talent office telling her that she would next be appearing in a Wilder picture called, and was sent the screenplay. "I read that script and realized that this was not the usual, that this was daring," she recalls.
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