She was protective of her peers and her world against accusations of decadence, as she wrote in her 1978 book Love, Laughter, and Tears: My Hollywood Story. "When I read what is written by those who look only for sensationalism, for ugliness and degradation, my very heartstrings protest," she writes. "There emerges a false picture [...] Can anyone truly believe that the movies and all they have given us came from a gaggle of drunks and degenerates?"
