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KIM DARBY

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"Miri"

          Youngest of the ladies here, Kim Darby is rated high on remarkable talent.  Baby fat was still showing in this episode and it was a part of her tremendous and quite understated sex appeal.  She was brilliant as a very young actress in television.  Just a few years after appearing in "Star Trek," she would lose the baby fat, but not the talent as she teamed with the Duke to make one of the greatest westerns ever made, "True Grit."  John Wayne deserved his Oscar, why Miss Darby was not nominated is just one of many blemishes on the history of the Oscar.  I am so sure John Wayne earned his Oscar playing against Glen Campbell. Miss Darby is the titled character in "Miri", one of many young orphans on a diseased planet where they begin to die just after puberty.  The disease drives them mad and forces them to age rapidly.  All of the orphans distrust adults deeply for they have seen all of them go violently mad.  They are a gang of incorrigible hooligans who thwart every attempt of aid by the Enterprise Away Team.  Captain Kirk develops a special relationship with young "Miri", and they eventually bridge the gap between hooligans and rescuers.  Miss Darby, dirty face and all, raises the temperature on the set considerably with a burning sensuality in portraying a first crush.  One of the truly wonderful actresses of our time, we have not seen enough of her lately.

 

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