Blake Edwards’ ‘A Love Story in 24 Frames’

She worked with filmmakers Walt Disney and Blake Edwards during her career and saw first-hand why they got the moniker.

Both, she says, were “absolutely wonderful to me.”

Disney, who cast her in her first movie, “The Happiest Millionaire,” “was protective and like a granddad. He invited me and the other actors to his home for dinners. I felt very taken care of.”

And Edwards, who directed her to an Oscar nomination in “Victor/Victoria,” had the capacity “to envision what someone was capable of without ever having seen it before.”

Although Warren had played a number of leading ladies in film and on television, she never had a character part like Norma Cassidy in Edwards’ film.

“My agent, Ron Meyer, called me and said, ‘You need to go meet Blake.’ And I said I couldn’t go because my hair was in braids and I had a baseball cap on. He said, ‘No, no. He’s leaving for London tomorrow; you’ve got to meet him.’”