\u201cI really<\/em> wanted to work with Elvis. I was in every Elvis fan club around when I was a teenager. I would even do Elvis imitations with the long sideburns and guitar when I was in high school. So I convinced Hal Wallis<\/strong> to give me another shot and did the test over. Then I got the part. Mr. Wallis, who was married, was an old letch<\/em>. I think he felt there was an unspoken promise that I would sleep with him since he allowed me to re-test for the part. On the day before filming began, he called me into his office, led me over to the sofa, and briefly kissed me on the mouth. He said, \u2018Little girl, we\u2019re going to have a long talk about your future.\u2019 I made up any excuse to get out of there. While on location he was constantly calling me and asking me out. It was quite annoying and insulting. He called me one last time in Hawaii and said, \u2018Little girl, you\u2019d better think again.\u2019 I knew I would probably never work for him again, but that was fine with me. This whole incident highly offended me.\u201d<\/p>\n Chris Noel in Fantasy Femmes of Sixties Hollywood<\/em>:<\/p>\n “I did not like Edd Byrnes<\/strong> [her leading man in Beach Ball<\/em>]. He was so egotistical! We had a kissing scene and he would slip his tongue practically down my throat. I felt that was uncalled for. I didn\u2019t like it. It was invading my privacy. I told him he was a jerk. He still wouldn\u2019t stop! So I went to Lennie Weinrib [the director] and said to him, \u2018Get Byrnes to stop or I\u2019m walking off the set.\u2019”<\/p>\n Marlyn Mason in Film Fatales<\/em>:<\/p>\n \u201cWe [she and Robert Vaughn<\/strong> on The Man from UNCLE]<\/em> had to do a kissing scene. In those days when people kissed on television and in movies it was all very tame stuff. There was no slurping and nobody was eating anybody\u2019s face like you see nowadays. So we do this scene and Vaughn just jams<\/em> his tongue down my throat. Of course the actress in me just kept on acting but I was not responsive. I was trying to keep my mouth shut. I was so stunned and I decided that I was just not going to say anything. We did this in one take but I thought, \u2018There is no way that they are going to see this in the dailies and pass it. We\u2019re going to have to do this again.\u2019 Sure enough, the next day the director came and told us we had to do the scene over again. I was watching out of the corner of my eye as the director took Robert Vaughn aside and told him, \u2018You can\u2019t kiss her like that.\u2019 We did it a second time and he made a half-ass attempt to do it again! But my mouth was tightly shut.\u201d<\/p>\n Sharyn Hillyer in Drive-In Dream Girls<\/em>:<\/p>\n \u201cI was a nervous wreck [doing her first topless scene in A Guide for the Married Man<\/em>]. I had never done anything like that before. I took the first tranquilizer that I ever took in my life in order to do this. They put pasties on me because I was nude from the waste up. Joey Bishop<\/strong> knew my husband at the time and he still<\/em> came on to me. I was so angry at that asshole<\/em>. I just felt he was an absolute creep especially since he was friendly with my husband. That made it very uncomfortable doing this scene over and over with him all day.”<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/juliep4.jpg\")
<\/a>\u201cI couldn\u2019t understand why an old guy with white hair would be after me. I was revolted by it. From the beginning, my agent taught me to make excuses to get out of these situations. The main thing was to not hurt their feelings because they might fix it so you didn\u2019t work again. I would look at my watch and say, \u2018I would love to stay and talk but I have another audition I\u2019ve got to go to.\u2019 I really had nobody in Hollywood to guide me. Anne Helm and I talk about this a lot. We got ourselves into situations that were pretty insulting\u2014just because we believed everybody<\/em>. In those days a lot of us were very naive\u2014much more than the young actresses of today.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/a>\u201cI really didn\u2019t get along with William Shatner<\/strong> [on Star Trek<\/em>]. I\u2019m not blaming him because he was of that generation of actors and really didn\u2019t think that women had feelings\u2014we were just something to use. Even though it was early on, he really played up being the star <\/em>of the series. There was one particular day when I was broke and decided not to go out to lunch. So I went to my dressing room to lay down and rest. Shatner knocked on my trailer and said, \u2018The electricity is out in my trailer to you mind if I use yours.\u2019 I said, \u2018Sure, come in.\u2019 But I didn\u2019t bother to get up. He entered and suddenly he was on me! I remember saying to him something like I would like to have a choice about this. He stopped but then he treated me badly for the rest of the week. It was so unprofessional. Majel Barrett [Nurse Chappel] told me that he that he used that excuse about the electricity with everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n