Lila Finn

I started in the business as a stunt woman in 1937. In my first movie, I doubled Dorothy Lamour in the picture Hurricane (1937). I did all of her swimming and diving scenes. We worked down in Samoa and off the coast of Catalina Island and it was delightful, but when we performed in the water, we had to use a little tent with a big heater in the center of it for our dressing room. And the other actor's double and myself, when we got cold, we'd have to go into the tent and turn our backs to each other and just change our clothes in there. The working conditions now, well, there is no comparison to back then. Now we have our own private dressing rooms and so much more.