WEBVTT 00:01.501 --> 00:03.870 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% - I really was very often treated like a sex object. 00:03.870 --> 00:06.873 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% (sultry jazz music) 00:08.174 --> 00:10.243 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% One of the things the publicity department 00:10.243 --> 00:12.946 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% would do sometimes is fix you up on a date 00:12.946 --> 00:15.815 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% with somebody who actually wanted arm candy. 00:15.815 --> 00:18.084 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% (sultry jazz music) 00:18.084 --> 00:20.253 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% - The studio would ask contract players 00:20.253 --> 00:22.589 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% to go out on pretend dates. 00:22.589 --> 00:25.558 align:left position:10% line:5% size:80% And every time your picture was in a magazine, 00:25.558 --> 00:28.294 align:left position:10% line:5% size:80% they mentioned 20th Century Fox, your next picture. 00:29.963 --> 00:33.566 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% When you're in a contract to a studio, they own you. 00:35.035 --> 00:39.105 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% I think Rita and I, and most of the girls then expected it. 00:42.275 --> 00:43.910 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% - I was in my early twenties. 00:43.910 --> 00:46.179 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% They said, "Go to this cocktail party 'cause 00:46.179 --> 00:49.182 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% there's gonna be a lot of important people there 00:49.182 --> 00:50.984 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and this fellow that we're, 00:50.984 --> 00:54.487 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% we'd like to fix you up with is kind of well-known 00:54.487 --> 00:57.590 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and it might do you some good." 00:57.590 --> 01:00.226 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% I thought, oh, okay, we'll go to the cocktail party. 01:01.661 --> 01:05.832 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% The host, the man who ran a big whiskey distillery 01:05.832 --> 01:06.966 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% comes over to me, he says, 01:06.966 --> 01:09.769 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% "Come on, I'll introduce you to people." 01:09.769 --> 01:12.372 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And he introduced me to Harry Cohn, 01:12.372 --> 01:14.741 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% the head of Columbia Studios. 01:14.741 --> 01:19.746 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% A distinctly vulgar and crude man. 01:19.746 --> 01:22.916 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And before I knew it, he actually said to me, 01:24.784 --> 01:26.586 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% "You know, I'd like to (beep) you." 01:28.688 --> 01:30.957 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% That may have been the third time in my life 01:30.957 --> 01:32.325 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% I heard that word used. 01:34.727 --> 01:36.129 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% And what did I do? 01:37.297 --> 01:42.135 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% I giggled like an idiot and just backed away. 01:44.838 --> 01:47.907 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% The host of the evening, that Mr. Distillery, 01:47.907 --> 01:50.677 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Mr. Whiskey comes over to me and he said, 01:50.677 --> 01:51.511 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% "Why don't you dance with me?" 01:51.511 --> 01:53.213 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% And I said, "Sure." 01:53.213 --> 01:55.615 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% So we started to dance and he began 01:55.615 --> 02:00.386 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% to press against me very, very hard. 02:02.021 --> 02:05.258 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% And before I knew it, he started to get a little bit 02:05.258 --> 02:09.529 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% of sweat beads on his upper lip. 02:09.529 --> 02:11.397 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And he started to breathe heavily. 02:11.397 --> 02:14.067 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% And he was really, he wasn't pressing against me, 02:14.067 --> 02:18.138 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% he was grinding against me. 02:18.138 --> 02:20.473 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% And he actually said, 02:20.473 --> 02:23.276 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% "You're a sexy little bitch, aren't you?" 02:24.944 --> 02:26.579 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% And I went out into the garden 02:26.579 --> 02:28.581 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% where I found the Mexican gardeners, 02:28.581 --> 02:31.618 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% 'cause this was an afternoon party, 02:31.618 --> 02:35.455 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% tears again, started to say, "I need your help. 02:35.455 --> 02:37.557 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% I have to go home." 02:37.557 --> 02:39.392 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% They didn't need an explanation. 02:39.392 --> 02:41.461 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% They kinda knew. 02:41.461 --> 02:43.696 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And they put one of their jackets on me 02:43.696 --> 02:46.966 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% and took me home to my little cottage in Culver City. 02:48.168 --> 02:50.937 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And those were the first gentlemen 02:50.937 --> 02:53.473 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% I had seen that whole afternoon.