[on
Cecil B. DeMille, who cast her in the role of Princess Vera in
The Volga Boatman (1926)] He saw me in something or other and sent for me. There were fifteen girls in the office when I came in - he was looking for an actress for this "Volga Boatman" lead, and intended to put her under contract. Fifteen minutes after I had arrived - and he had only looked at me only once, mind you - I was signed. I went out in a daze, wondering whether he or I had suddenly gone crazy, or whether it was both of us.