She received a part in the chorus for Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific and then, a year later, the starring role in the duo's Oklahoma! With the end of the big-screen musical era, Jones fought for recognition as a serious actress to win the role in Elmer Gantry and other dramatic fare.
That includes Cassidy's impressive endowment, Jones' own 'highly sexed' nature that made orgasms a breeze, their threesome with another woman 'yuck,' she says, when asked about the onetime experiment , Cassidy's pre-marital sexual encounter with Cole Porter that Jones says left her unfazed, and her apparent tolerance for his infidelities.
Sex keeps you young no matter what.
But a substantial part of the book is spent on her troubled marriage to the late Jack Cassidy, the glossily handsome actor and singer whom she describes in a passage as her first lover and 'sexual Svengali,' and whose lessons she shares candidly.