 Steve Allen and me in Havana doing his show just before Castro invaded. |  Kathi Lee should have known Gif like I did back then. Gif worked with me in The All American. | |
 A dance party with Bill Haley and the Comets in Running Wild. |  Richard Long dead drunk in The All American. Richard was one of the sweetest men I've worked with and a natural actor. | |
 Smooching with Donald O'Conner in Frances Joins the WACS. |  On the set of Ain't Misbehavin'. In this crowd next to me is Prince Axel of Denmark. Piper Laurie is across the room. Axel came to find me and wanted to take me back to Denmark. Being a princess was not what I had in mind. | |
 Milton Rachmil, owner of Universal Studios and Decca Records. Notice I'm hanging on. |  My husband Thomas Dixon when we met in 1974. We've made it for the long haul--25 years. | |
 Wish I was there now: Wakiki Beach, circa 1971. The Royal Hawaiian Hotel was my hang out every six months. | ||
 Alberto Vargas was a kind, dear man. I posed nude for him when I was sixteen. |  Vargas was gentleman enough to keep my photos a secret when I got my contract at Universal. If they had been made public, this would be Joanie Olander's website and no one would be reading it. | |