She was supposed to work with
Alan Ladd in a film while she was in England in the early 1950s. She did not agree, however, to a four-year option in the contract because she wanted the freedom of working in theater and already had a binding film contract with Tempean Films. The tabloids papers suggested unkindly that she "walked out" on Ladd. Years later, after coming to the U.S., she was offered the lead in
The Deep Six (1958) that was to star Ladd. She thought Ladd would never agree to her casting after the earlier incident. He did, surprisingly, and told her that he admired and respected what she did back then.
