As a young actress in Hollywood, I was delighted and thrilled when my manager invited me to attend a “Hollywood Party” at the now defunct Chasen’s. It was star studded and great fun, but the icing on the cake was being told that Alfred Hitchcock wanted to meet me. My manager and I approached his table and were introduced, Hitch was by now very elderly and looked sickly. That did not prevent him from being extremely gracious and complimentary, telling me he had seen some of m

Working on film is mostly a joyous experience. However, sometimes one encounters experiences one could never imagine. Such was the case in the making of “Walk Proud”. Robbie Benson played my son, a loved and sheltered “good kid” who is tempted by peer pressure into joining a gang. Robbie, being the dedicated actor he is, did all his research and learnt the signs and secret codes of the gang he was joining, the Venice gang in this case. One day, driving to a location through S