I hear it from folks all the time: “Gosh, Dolly, you seem so happy!” Well, my smile’s pretty…
It took place on Christmas Eve 1939. I had just arrived in England from Hollywood to volunteer for…
Back in 1960, a role that I played in the television drama, The Two Worlds of Charly Gordon,…
If you’re like me, the name “Moses” summons up a stern, God-like figure with a long white beard.…
My career—TV, stage, movies, all of it—was founded on a strange event that was to be a deep…
The year 1945 was fading fast as my wife Nancy and I trudged home that evening in mid-Manhattan.…
Once upon a Christmas several years ago, when our children were quite small, my father came to visit…
This is the story of how a small city in Wisconsin—and a team of football players—were hit by…
Opening night. The audience takes their seats. The makeup artist applies a few finishing touches on me before…
I’m a Thanksgiving baby. At 2:00 a.m. on November 25, 1960, just a few hours after Thanksgiving dinner,…
In recent years I have had two very good roles on television: Florence, the wisecracking maid on the…
Many of us, I think, can look back and recall certain specific moments in our lives that take…
