I always wanted to be Anna May Wong. She seemed so much more exotic and exciting than plain ordinary folk. But no-go. I wasn`t fated to be Wong, just white.
I was in `Bye Bye Birdie` on Broadway - played the father. I was in the film version, but they should have retitled it `Hello, Ann-Margret!` They cut several of my and the other actors` best scenes and shot new ones for her so she could do her teenage-sex...