“I was 28 years old. Ingrid was 35 and beautiful. As we talked, I started to get feelings which became physical. So, I told her, ‘I’m going to jump in the water’. I bent over to hide myself, went out of the shack and jumped into the freezing sea. When I got out, I couldn’t tell if I was a boy or a girl.
"We continued chatting and I soon got feelings again and jumped into the sea again. After the third time, Ingrid said, ‘You must really love the sea’.
"I jumped into that damned, freezing sea five times that night.
"Many years later, I told Ingrid that story and she cried sentimentally. I cried, too.”
- Watch Frankenheimer tell the story at link below. -
Also reminded me of Joshua Logan's difficulty with Mitzi Gaynor, getting her to be a little freer with the flesh, like people in the South Pacific, in his movie, South Pacific. She eventually came around to liking the idea and posed for Playboy.
Ron