"My agent called me up, I went in for a reading and got it. Then later on I was asked to read for a part in another episode where I would have played a hooker. A very hard, tough woman. The girl in "Singapore" wasn't really a hooker -- she was more of a dance-hall girl. But this one was a real prostitute. So I dressed the part. Heavy makeup, ripped hose, the whole bit. I was on my way to the reading when my car broke down on the freeway. There I was, in my hooker outfit, out on the L.A. freeway! By myself! I thought, "I am DEAD. They're going to find me dead, and they'll look at me and say, 'Wow, I wonder what she did for a living?'" (laughs) I finally got there and did the reading. Well, I didn't get the part. They felt I wasn't right for it, I guess. I was mad. Anyway, when I went in a while later to read for "Singapore File", I had a real attitude. And the script wasn't good, at least the piece they had me read. There were some terrible lines. Like: (husky voice) "McGarrett, you got big shoulders -- I wanna lean on 'em!" I mean, REALLY! It was corny stuff! Even back then, it was corny. I just told them that, flat-out. I said, "This sucks!" I said, "Am I supposed to laugh or cry when I say this?" The producer said (soothing voice) "We know, it needs work, we'll fix it." I guess they liked what they saw, my reactions or whatever, because I got the part." Da un'intervista sui ruoli interpretati nella serie tv Hawaii Five-0

 (Marj Dusay, pseudonimo di Marjorie Ellen Pivonka Mahoney, attrice; Hays, 20 febbraio 1936 – New York, 28 gennaio 2020)