April 1949

I've just shot a tiny bit part with the Marx Brothers, for their latest, Love Happy. I cannot believe that I am in one of their films! I used to go and see them quite a lot when I was ten or so, I'd get myself so lost in the cinema and I'd watch the film again and again and again. I wouldn't care how many reels of news footage I had to watch, just so long as I got to see the feature. I'd go missing quite a lot that way, they'd go searching for me and then someone would say "I know where she is! She's at the movies, isn't she?" and they'd get mad and come and fetch me.

I can't believe I'm going to be in that film. And not just that! I have two auditions with some top producers coming up, all organised by Johnny Hyde. I can't help but wonder where my life would be without him. I don't want to think about it really. The fact is that here I am, doing all these wonderful things and perhaps there are some girls out there who haven't met him, who haven't had that chance. I feel bad for them but I can't change a thing and I wouldn't change places with them for the world. If it were the other way around, they wouldn't either.

That's just the way things are.