Hi, I'm Gilbert Gottfried. This is Gilbert Gottfried's amazing colossal podcast. I'm here with my co-host, Frank Santopadre.

Andrean, wait once again, recording at Nutmeg with our engineer, Frank Ferdarosa. Our guest this week is an actress, activist and humanitarian, who's been working steadily in films and television for the last six decades.

TV appearances include Run For Your Life, The Bianic Woman, Heart to Heart, Dury Man, Chicago Hope, Arles, Providence, Skuger Town and CSI. Among her memorable film roles are The Harrod Experiment, Pacific Heights, Citizen Ruth, I Heart Huckabees, and the Charlie Chaplin-directed Accountis from Hong Kong,

in which she shared the screen with Sophia Loren and Marlon Brando. Her decades-long commitment to the well-being of animals began while filming an Africa way back in 1969, and the experience later inspired her both the Raw Foundation and Shambala Preserve, an 80-acre habitat,

which protects and preserves the lives of lions, tigers, and other exotic creatures. But as an actress and performer, she'll always be known to audiences all over the world as the icy blondes,

Marny Edgar and Melanie Daniels in the classic Alfred Hitchcock thrillers, Marny and the Birds. Her encroasing new memoir is called Tippie, and we're thrilled to have her here on the podcast.

Please welcome to the show, Melanie Griffiths-Mommy, and Dakota Johnson's Nana, the lovely and talented Tippie Hedgerin.

Oh, thank you. That's the best introduction I've ever had. Thank you.

Well, it's certainly the longest.

It is long too.

We could also say she's Dakota Johnson's Bubby.

Dakota Johnson's Bubby. Tippie, we know you're a busy lady, and we're very grateful that you've had time to do this.

Oh, that's my pleasure.

And we love the book. We both read it.

Oh, I'm even more thrilled about that.

Now, you started off first as a model.

And how did you get into modeling at first?

Actually, I was getting off the street car in Minneapolis, Minnesota, coming home from high school.

And Lady came toward me and handed me her card and said,

would you ask your mother to bring you down to Donaldson's department store?

We'd like to have you model in our Saturday morning fashion shows.

That's what started the whole thing.

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