as an actress? >> well, i mean she glowed. if she was on screen, you didn't look at anyone else perhaps with the exception of montgomery clift. in a way they sort of looked alike, and they had become very close friends, and she -- he had gotten in a terrible accident leaving her house, and she actually saved is his life. she pulled his teeth from his throat. so she just -- and she loved her -- she loved acting. she actually -- i wrote something, this bizarre cheesy movie called "these old broads," and it starred my mother and elizabeth and joan collins and shirley, and my mother and liz -- elizabeth had this scene where they basically were talking about my father referring to him as freddie, i believe, something subtle like that. >> she obviously had many