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By J. W. RICHARDSON
^■'m no Marilyn Monroe," said Deborah Kerr, "But I I wish I were."
Miss Kerr, her customarily red-gold hair bleached to a topaz blonde for her super-sexy role of Karen Holmes, the captain's wife who carries on a love affair with the sergeant (Burt Lancaster) in "From Here To Eternity," tucked her shorts-clad legs under her on the davenport of her Columbia Studio dressing room and sat tailorfashion, grinning impishly.
"This is my first undress role," she elaborated, in a quiet, precise British accent which she was being coached to lose for the part. "And I wish I were Marilyn Monroe because I'd love to be able to get off the wonderful repartee that's always credited to her, on the subject of sex.
"When I was first announced for this part, people I've known for years picked up their morning papers, read the item, gasped and stared at each other, then exclaimed, 'WELL! What Do You Know? SHE'S ALIVE!'
"Stewart Granger and Jean Simmons and some of my other old friends came to me and said, 'Thank goodness you got it. You're young and you're fun and you're not too bad to look at, and you've played duchess roles for long enough. Now you can show them that there is blood in your veins.'
Q^ut all I could think of was the remark my mother
made after I received an Academy Award nomination for the role of a drunken old woman in 'Edward, My Son.'
" 'I'm sure, dear, it's very good acting,' Mother remarked, 'but I don't like to see you like that.' And I'm sure if Mother were alive today, that's the sort of thing she would say about this part, too.
"But I need it, to give me a complete new outlook on my future." (continued on pace 66)
As the very sexy Karen Holmes in "From Here To Eternity," Deborah has affair with Burt Lancaster.
Deborah was fearful of what hubby Tony Bartley would say, but he thought it was a wonderful idea.
DEBORAH KERR, ALWAYS CONSIDERED COLD AND ALOOF, SHOWS 'EM WHAT SHE'S REALLY MADE OF