Angie Dickinson on the Rat Pack, "Police Woman" and #MeToo

Angie Dickinson is a Hollywood star if ever there was one and she has plenty of stories to tell as Muraki found out when he paid her a visit for our Sunday profile if you were a critic doing a review of your life so far what would you say oh my god that's one lucky well it's not exactly luck that's had Angie Dickinson turning heads during a film and TV career that's double wait a minute before you too remembered it right fellas as a half-century long master class in the art of seduction did you enjoy being a sex symbol yes I enjoyed it very much I wouldn't want to be known as only a sex symbol right I wanted to be known as an actress equally or even more so like Marilyn Monroe she was known as the greatest and rightly so sex symbol of all time why try to do Shakespeare after that Angie was always more down-to-earth rough-and-tumble than Marilyn willing to go mano-a-mano with a tough guy like Lee Marvin do you consider yourself more of a broad a Dame or a gal oh all of the above she was born Angie Brown in September 1931 yes she's 87 in column North Dakota population around 740 I grew up going to movies my daddy was the projectionists so we got in for a free and I loved movies it burned down and we cried for a week on you cried for a week oh it was I decided to give up movies for Lent since the movie theater burn that was you're bringing back so many memories of that I don't think about normally after the family moved to California Dickinson found work as a secretary and competed in beauty pageants which led to a spot on the Colgate Comedy Hour and Jimmy Durante was singing with Frank Sinatra that's it I was I said this is for me she appeared in a bunch of TV westerns that in 1959 starred in Rio Bravo opposite her childhood hero John Wayne say what that you love me I said I'd arrest you it means the same thing you know that you just won't say it my parents were Democrats and I was a Democrat and John Wayne was a Republican did you have some trepidation before you met him then I had trepidation about getting too close to him and ending up discussing politics and I was afraid that I was afraid I'd get to like him and that would be a problem yeah they did a play stuntmen taught Dickenson to play poker decades ago well the play was and she's still playing I played for 35 years with the Gershwins in 1960 she co-starred with the Rat Pack in Ocean's eleven she ended up dating Frank Sinatra we got very close to getting married in 1964 but Sinatra's late-night lifestyle wasn't for her he said you know I'm not gonna marry an actress and I said well I don't blame you I wouldn't wish that on anybody and I actually didn't want to marry him so I didn't want him to ask me to marry him because I didn't want to say no to Frank Sinatra there have long been rumors that Dickinson and president John F Kennedy had an affair rumors she's consistently denied there was no reason or no grounds for thinking that I was seeing him I wasn't all right well then can I just ask a straight did he ever put the moves on you no I said I like it here but in 1964 a future President Ronald Reagan did slap dickinson across the face in the movie The Killers which also starred John Cassavetes your east-west your chemistry with him in that movie yeah we liked each other I must say do you mean that you liked each other just working with each other or that there was no wait we we liked each other as man and woman and as actors not romance it's something in between right yeah it's not falling into bed with each other but it's more than just I like working with you no it's much closer than that yeah really really like each other like if things were different we'd go out that's chemistry yeah it happens on movie sets you know attractive people in 1965 Dickinson married one of the country's most successful songwriters what made you fall for Burt Bacharach well that's very hard to summarize he was so different they separated in 1976 was there a very happy period he should never have been married in his autobiography Bacharach fast up to his infidelity he never loved me I can tell you that right now the way one loves he loved in his own way which is not too good and so he had no respect for me did you love him yeah I liked him a lot yeah our part in cars and a pop in the gas in 1974 Dickinson became Sergeant Pepper Sergeant Pepper Anderson on policewoman David Gerber was the producer and he said don't you want to be a household name I realized I wanted to be a household name is it true that there was a surge in applications from women to join the police force yes there was a surge and a lot of fan letters with that I became a cop because of you Dickinson became almost as well known for her appearances on The Tonight Show for chemistry with Johnny Carson was undeniable I love movies I love dinner parties I love you tonic relationship Johnny ever date mm-hmm we did date who broke it off things happen Angie Dickinson has always been Frank in her opinions on sexual matters including the topic that is roiled Hollywood for the past two years hey can I ask what do you think of the me2 movement I hate it it's all out of proportion like my hand I say an open robe is not a rape listen I'm sure men misbehaved but I wasn't there should we go one more sure yeah Dickinson lives alone now in Beverly Hills her daughter Nikki from her marriage to burt bacharach died in 2007 what are your best memories of Nikki your daughter she was very smart and funny and wonderful yeah so all the memories of her are my best memories born three months premature Nikki suffered chronic health problems including severe eyesight loss and Asperger syndrome if she hit me she would hit me out of frustration of not being able to cope with whatever it was was her problem she had no coping skills so she just took her life she couldn't take it anymore Nikki was 40 years old she was a wonderful wonderful gift what do you think about when you look out here that I hope I never die really yeah it's beautiful isn't it someday I won't have this but I don't know

Channel: CBS Sunday Morning

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Keywords: CBS Sunday Morning, CBS News, news, angie dickinson, film, tv, career, seduction, police woman, rio bravo, dressed to kill

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Length: 9min 30sec (570 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 15 2019