All I wanted as a kid in Morton Grove, Illinois, was to be like everyone else. But I…
Failure and frustration are in the unwritten pages of everyone’s record. I have had my share of them.…
When I was a boy, my father was a baker and my mother worked in a cigar factory.…
Every once in a while when you greet a friend casually, and expect a conventional reply, you catch…
If I’m anything in this world, I’m a wife and mother. I do enjoy my performing and musical…
Intermission at a recent concert of mine in California. I was touching up my makeup and hair when…
In a recent episode of The Streets of San Francisco we did some filming in a foundry where…
At Bridgeport High School in Ohio I was quarterback, the leading offensive player, on the football team. In…
If my experience in motion pictures has taught me anything, it is this: No mere man is clever…
Laughter in my business. Everyone pretty much knows that laughter is good medicine. It is a recognized therapy—a…
Most of us move through life looking for something. For years my search was for a sense of…
How annoyed I get today when I hear someone teased for being shy! “Come on!” they shout, dragging…