As a companion piece of sorts to “A Touching Tale of Truman Capote’s Hatred of Gore Vidal,” I submit without comment my favorite quote from another George Plimpton oral history:

“I can tell you, I’m nearly the last person in the world who
would ever consider doing a sex scene for a movie in a rubber raft in the middle of an indoor swimming pool at the health club.  But that’s the way we wound up with it.”

Richie Berlin in Edie: An American Girl, by Jean Stein and George Plimpton

Wait, I lied, I do have a comment: If you read their autobiographies, a lot of DeMille actresses shared similar stories.