The Postman Always Ringstwice.

My Childhood Was Surrounded By Trouble, Illness, And My Dad's Alcoholism, But As I Said, We Just Didn't Have The Time To Be Impressed By All Those Misfortunes. I Have An Idea That The Irish Possess A Built-in Don't-give-a-damn That Helps Them Through All The Stress.

I Got A Part As A Chorus Girl In A Show Called Every Sailor And I Had Fun Doing It. Mother Didn't Really Approve Of It, Through.

Perhaps People, And Kids Especially, Are Spoiled Today, Because All The Kids Today Have Cars, It Seems. When I Was Young You Were Lucky To Have A Bike.

Though I Soon Became Typecast In Hollywood As A Gangster And Hoodlum, I Was Originally A Dancer, An Irish Hoofer, Trained In Vaudeville Tap Dance. I Always Leapt At The Opportunity To Dance In Films Later On.

I Never Had The Slightest Difficulty With A Fellow Actor. Not Until One, Two, Three. In That Picture, Horst Buchholz Tried All Sorts Of Scene-stealing Didoes. I Came Close To Knocking Him On His Ass.