The Ear of the Heart: An Actress' Journey From Hollywood to Holy Vows (76 page)

My next movie was a change of pace—the wacky
Sail a Crooked Ship
with Carolyn Jones, Robert Wagner, Frank Gorshin and, my favorite, the irrepressible and irresistible Ernie Kovacs (here in a personal photo that I treasure
).

Lisa, a
suspense drama about a Dutch secret police officer and the Jewish concentration camp survivor he smuggles into Palestine, reunited me with Stephen Boyd—and put me in the company of a virtual Who’s Who of the finest European actors
.

Mom visited the location for the concentration camp sequence in
Lisa.
She said I looked like the way she felt on her “mornings after”
.

The scene of Lisa’s re-creation of the experiments performed on her in the concentration camp was harrowing to do and was shot in one take. Our cinematographer, Arthur Ibbetson, equipped his camera with a special close-up lens, which meant the camera was placed only twenty-one inches from my face
. Lisa
is my personal favorite of the films I made
.

The official engagement photo of Don Robinson and me was shot by Paramount’s top portrait photographer Bud Fraker
.

Come Fly with Me
was the latest addition to a familiar Hollyood staple, the story of three girls in search of love and security, but it was a well-produced and gorgeously filmed travelogue of our European locations. It had one of my favorite casts including Lois Nettleton, Pamela Tiffin and my beloved Karl Malden. It was my last film
.

A second portrait of the Bowen girls—Granny Kude, great-grandmother Nellie Bowen and Mom—the three women who made me what I am. This was taken several months before my entrance into Regina Laudis. I was holding a secret
.

Portraits capturing my evolution from teenager to twenty-four-year-old glamor girl