The Legs Are the Last to Go (15 page)

The cast of
Hurry Sundown
. Faye Dunaway, John Phillip Law, me, Robert Hooks, Jane Fonda, and Michael Caine. We were all thrilled to be on holiday in New Orleans.

Being made up on the set of
The Split
, in 1968. Gene Hackman, Donald Sutherland, and Jim Brown were costars. The plot left no public impression. I hope the legs did.

Circa 1960s—my favorite backstage postshow attire in the Persian Room at the Plaza Hotel.
Harper's Bazaar
chose to use this look in a fashion spread.

Sugar Ray Robinson and Diana Sands guest star on
Julia
.
© BETTMAN/CORBIS

Me and my television son, Marc Copage, from the groundbreaking show
Julia
. Tumultuous times for both of us, and he was only five years old.
© JOHN ENGSTEAD

With the charming Maurice Chevalier in the 1967 French-American television collaboration “C'est la Vie.”
© AMERICAN BROADCASTING COMPANIES, INC.

Bob Hope visits the set of
Julia
. I was always receptive to his counsel.

Presenting Zero Mostel with the Cue Magazine Entertainer of the Year Award in 1963 for his performance in
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
. I won the very first award the previous year for
No Strings
.
© BETTMAN/CORBIS
.

Me and JFK. If I only knew then what I know about him now.

David Frost and me watching ourselves on different talk shows, a precursor to the new millennium of “TMI”—information overload.
BILL RAY/TIME LIFE PICTURES/GETTY IMAGES

My second starring role on Broadway, created by Richard Rodgers, with my costar Richard Kiley.
© RODGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN ORGANIZATION.

Working with the brilliant Geraldine Page in the Broadway production of
Agnes of God
, the first time a black actress had ever replaced a white actress.

Starring as Norma Desmond in the Toronto production of Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber's
Sunset Boulevard
.
© CATHERINE ASHMORE.