I called in a lot of favors.

I was just always struck, in the original one-act play, by the intensity of the relationship between these two women. It’s a very pure and loving relationship, and those lifelong friendships are so rare and...

That was getting close to happening when Julie Harris had a stroke, and then my mother got ill and eventually died of lung cancer.

When we did it in New York, it wasn’t quite ready yet. But basically it gave us a stronger visibility in New York and really put the piece out there to a number of people.

I realized I had this incredibly rich legacy of Broadway and Hollywood memorabilia and I had to do something with it. My mother was not a household name but everybody she knew and worked with...