This is Let's Talk to Lucy starring Lucille Ball. A very warm welcome to you all. I'm Gary Morton, and now let's talk to Lucy.

Hi, this is Lucy, and my guest today is Miss Julie Newmar. As many of you know, Julie plays the role of a female robot in the new TV series Living Doll.

But take it from me, Julie is no mechanical tinker toy.

This statuesque, brown-eyed blonde is the epitome of a real live, breathing, living doll if I ever saw one.

Her beautiful face and fabulous figure have helped

to make her one of the most popular young actresses on Broadway and in Hollywood. Julie,

darling, I'm delighted that you had time to drop by today. Oh, thank you. This is a great honor

for me, Lucy. I have no idea. Well, thank you. You know, statuesque is truly the word that describes you, Julie. The first time I saw you walk across a studio lot, I said she walks like a dancer. And someone said she is. She's a very fine dancer. I understand that's how your fabulous career started, actually. Well, it did. Actually, it was my mother who got me started dancing. She was in Ziegfeld Follies,

and she wanted to give me all the kind of lessons she didn't have, you know. She was in the follies with Marilyn Miller.

So I must have had acrobatic, Spanish character, Rousin'Enice, Ballet, Toe. I had about, I remember taking eight classes on Saturday just in dancing alone.

That's a lot of classes, but did you really resent it or did you not mind it?

No, not at all.

I just did everything I was told, and I'm very glad that it worked out that way because I think

that it's the best preparation for acting because you have use of your body that without

training in either dance or mime or whatever men do in particular sports or things,

you haven't the facility to work, particularly in comedy, wouldn't you say that?

Of course. I know it's very important, but at an early age, children sometimes resent the

fact that I know my daughter complains if I get too many lessons going for her, because

I feel the way your mother did that expose them to a teacher now and then, and let's see if they can keep up an interest in something like that.

Well, having you as a mother, they wouldn't need a teacher because just observing you is enough learning.

You'll find out, Julie, when you have children of your own, that they pay no attention to you, they still have to have a teacher.

They don't really want to compete with you, you know.

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