I told my agent to not tell me about any offers - I didn't want to be tempted - so I didn't learn until years later that he had turned down a lot of films including The Court Jester with Danny Kaye and The Million Pound Note with Gregory Peck.
I was a sickly child, contracting tuberculosis at the age of five.
But I had promised my husband never to accept another engagement. It was not a very happy time for me.