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,'t is Julie's conviction that if a girl has nothing but a figure, she ivont last as an actress
ier performance won her a Tony, the legitimate stage's dulcet unswer to Hollywood's more blatant Oscar. Miss Newmar's Broadway Swede is a young lady of formidably high IQ vho envisages a eugenic mating with the man portrayed by Charles Boyer. Miss Newmar states that this girl's an all •ight sort and disclaims vehemently the notion that she might je on the fun-loving side.
"But the man in the play — isn't he already married?"
"'That's so, but why would a girl with an IQ so high not think of a perfect child?" said Miss Newmar, who wasn't a Swede for a moment but just a girl out of a Los Angeles high school, a lass with a bit of a combative streak. "She's not a home-wrecker."
Her logic seemed unassailable.
"All right," said Miss Newmar. "Next question?"
The next question was one Julie Newmar gets all the time and is going to get a lot more and that really antagonizes her. It's about what she looks like and whom she's going to be compared with because she can't very well help it. She has a way of answering it before it comes out.
"TVTOW tell me the truth," she said, waving her arms. "Did 1^1 I remind you of anyone when you walked in here?" "Since you ask — " "No. No, I didn't. Next question?" "Wait a minute. Jayne Mansfield. Same type." "I'll kill you dead. I haven't got half Jayne Mansfield's ambition. Not a quarter. I don't see how she does it."
"Anita Ekberg, then."
"We're both Swedes. Where else is the resemblance?" "Looks."
"What have looks to do with anything? No, I'm not going to be written off as this type or that type. I'm myself. If I'm not Julie Newmar, I don't want to hear about anybody. Not Marilyn Monroe. Not anybody. These girls are all very good, it isn't that. But I'm no accident, you understand? I'm a dancer since I was three years old. I'm going to make it on my own."
"In Hollywood?"
"In Hollywood, sure. If I don't, there's been a lot of time wasted. My time. When they were casting "Li'l Abner" for Broadway, I went right to the producers' office and said, 'I'm the girl you want for Stupefyin' Jones. So stop looking And after a while they did. Stopped looking, I mean. "Marriage Go Round" came along. I knew I was it. And I was. I'm going back to New York and finish the run of that. Then Hollywood'll be waiting again. I have a five-picture deal with Paul Gregory."
A bystander cleared his throat and came to attention. "You haven't heard it all," he said. "Before she goes back to New York, this girl's going to Sweden for a vacation. No relatives there, friends, no nothing. She's been playing the part of a Swede so she decides to go Sweden. Talk about determination. Talk about atmospheric influences."
"I am a Swede, don't forget," said Julie. "By descent. Why shouldn't I go to Sweden?"
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WHILE in Hollywood, Julie dated, among others, Scott Brady and Gardner McKay, but she denies that she's in love with anyone.
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