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- I really was very often 
treated like a sex object.

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(sultry jazz music)

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One of the things the 
publicity department

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would do sometimes is 
fix you up on a date

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with somebody who 
actually wanted arm candy.

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(sultry jazz music)

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- The studio would 
ask contract players

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to go out on pretend dates.

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And every time your 
picture was in a magazine,

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they mentioned 20th Century 
Fox, your next picture.

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When you're in a contract 
to a studio, they own you.

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I think Rita and I, and most 
of the girls then expected it.

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- I was in my early twenties.

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They said, "Go to this 
cocktail party 'cause

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there's gonna be a lot 
of important people there

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and this fellow that we're,

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we'd like to fix you up 
with is kind of well-known

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and it might do you some good."

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I thought, oh, okay, we'll 
go to the cocktail party.

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The host, the man who ran 
a big whiskey distillery

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comes over to me, he says,

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"Come on, I'll introduce 
you to people."

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And he introduced 
me to Harry Cohn,

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the head of Columbia Studios.

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A distinctly vulgar 
and crude man.

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And before I knew it, 
he actually said to me,

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"You know, I'd like 
to (beep) you."

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That may have been the 
third time in my life

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I heard that word used.

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And what did I do?

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I giggled like an idiot 
and just backed away.

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The host of the evening, 
that Mr. Distillery,

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Mr. Whiskey comes over 
to me and he said,

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"Why don't you dance with me?"

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And I said, "Sure."

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So we started to 
dance and he began

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to press against 
me very, very hard.

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And before I knew it, he 
started to get a little bit

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of sweat beads on his upper lip.

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And he started to 
breathe heavily.

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And he was really, he 
wasn't pressing against me,

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he was grinding against me.

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And he actually said,

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"You're a sexy little 
bitch, aren't you?"

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And I went out into the garden

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where I found the 
Mexican gardeners,

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'cause this was an 
afternoon party,

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tears again, started to 
say, "I need your help.

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I have to go home."

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They didn't need an explanation.

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They kinda knew.

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And they put one of 
their jackets on me

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and took me home to my little 
cottage in Culver City.

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And those were the 
first gentlemen

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I had seen that whole afternoon.