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“DESIREE” “DESIREE” DESIGNED TO MAKE ANNIVERSARY WEEK MOST EVENTFULLY PROFITADLE IN OUR HISTORY Marlon Brando has attained great distinction as one of the all-time great young actors. "Desiree” proves he is just that. As Napoleon he adds to his gallery of great characterizations, a role he enacts with memorable distinction. His Napoleon was more than a dictator, mare than a dreamer. Perfectly mirrored by this portrayal his is the strange, burning genius who rose from a humble Corsican refugee to rule an empire. . . and a man who was more than "a little corporal” to all women. . .ruthless to achieve his end in politics, in war and in love. Napoleon was one of the men to make meaningful history. Desiree was one of the beautiful women who did not. Their love should never have been awakened, but neither could forget a rain-drenched night in Marseilles. Their passionate love story is not in the history books. But, it was buried in Napoleon’s heart . . .and in this screenplay, for the first time, is revealed the real drama of the insatiably ambitious genius whose passions were not to be denied. Michael Rennie and Jean Simmons reveal another love phase of "Desiree” one as heart-warming and considerate as the lingering one between Desiree and Napoleon was passionately turbulent. Rennie’s Bernadotte is the gallant, but much older statesman who saves Desiree from suicide, falls in love with and marries her. . . to lift her onto a throne. "Desiree” will have a gala, Coast-to- Coast televised, premiere in San Fran- cisco on November 16. Above are the six principal characters in "Desiree,” acknowledgedly the most significant love story to be revealed on the screen. Left to right: Merle Oberon as Josephine, the woman who showed Napoleon a short-cut to power, only to be eventually cast adrift by him when another fascinated him; Michael Rennie as the statesman, Bernadotte, who was Napoleon’s most dangerous enemy, who married Desiree and made her a queen; Marlon Brando in what he considers the most colorful and dramatic role of his career; Jean Simmons as the warm-lipped girl who fell madly in love with the "little corporal;” Cameron Mitchell as Napoleon’s brother, Joseph, and Elizabeth Sellars as Desiree’s sister who married the latter. Page 14A * 4 J