" Not A Caprice"

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Not a Caprice

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It was the late 1960s, and Doris was the most famous star in motion pictures. Blonde, attractive, and very well built, she always played in comedies that toyed with sexual themes but in which she remained virginal.

Doris's only real problem was her husband. he managed her career and on the side many bad business deals and some arrangements with people of questionable ethics. He had signed deals for her last three pictures, including the one she was now filming, just for the money. This one, a comedy about spies, was likely to be even worse than the other two.

And he still needed money. The people with questionable ethics that he was in debt to suggested a way he could pay them back, and he had no real choice.

And so, one day half-way through filming at a studio in Paris, Doris came onto the set. It was a living room with couch and white rug. The director had not scheduled filming for that day, but Doris had received a note to appear for one quick scene. She walked in wearing a yellow and orange buttoned-top and skirt with yellow boots. She craned her head to look for the director.

"Frank!"

"He's coming, Doris," a voice shouted to her from behind the lights. "He asked me to just walk you through something he's toying with to see how it plays. Roll cameras."

With that, a young blonde woman named Elke, very famous in German films, walked on to the set. She was wearing a sea-breeze dress and obviously nothing underneath.

"Hello!" Doris said, pleasantly but confused.

Elke said to her in German, ""Du dummer Amerikaner, ich bin hier, um deinen Platz einnehmen! (You stupid American! I am here to take your place!)" Elke then pulled out from behind her back and cannister that she sprayed into Doris' face.

The movie star's eyes swam to the back of her head, her mouth popped open, and she fell straight back onto the couch, out like a light.

For a few seconds, the only sound was the purring of the camera. Finally, someone said, "Will she be all right?"

Another voice answered, "Sure! We tested the stuff last night on four strippers. They're all okay today. Go ahead, Elke." (They were not worried about talking during filming because it could later be wiped from the soundtrack.)

Elke sat next to the unconscious Doris and unbuttoned her top, revealing a well-packled white brassiere. She pulled the top around and off her and then, reaching behind, undid the bra, displaying two, round and full white breasts.

"Boy!" somebody said aloud, as all on the set were experiencing the fantasy of most men around the world in 1967, seeing America's Sweetheart's breasts.

Elke unzipped Doris' skirt and pulled it down and off her, displaying her long and beautiful legs. Then, slowly, she pulled off the yellow boots, one by one. Finally, she guided the white panties down the legs and off.

"Go in for her feet and work your way up--slowly," a voice instructed the cameraman. When he was done, the voice said, "Now pan to Elke," who was unzipping her dress and stepping out of it, completely naked.

Stars of American and German films were on the same set naked. "Okay, let's go for it. Elke, stay next to her and put your hand on her knee. Then bring it up, to her belly, and then--"

When she had finished, the man almost groaned, "Okay, stop, before everyone here dies. Besides, her husband, weasel that he is, will probably kill us if we go further. Put on her clothes."

Elke stood up, put on Doris' panties and then her skirt, bra, and top. Then she sat next to the unconsious, naked star and pulled on the boots.

Doris remained unconscious and naked, slumped down on the couch so as to produce a little bulge in her middle, which most on the set found very sexy.

Per the script she had been given, Elke then got up, walked to the door, and opened it. Three blonde women, with caps, bare midriffs, and red boots walked onto the set with a four trailing, pushing in a laundry cart. They were obviously meant to be Elke's fellow spies.

The first three picked Doris up and placed her in the car, covering her with towels. All four of them pushed the cart out of the door and down the hall. "Okay, hand-held camera, follow them. Everyone else, put the set back exactly as we found it this morning and get out of here."

The cameraman followed the four girls and the laundry cart down the elevator and into a waiting truck. He got into a car and filmed the truck going down the street and into the parking lot of the Ritz hotel where Doris and her husband were staying. As he filmed, the cart was brought up the service elevator to Doris' suite.

Once inside, Doris was removed from the cart and placed on her bed. Her wrists and ankles were tied to the post and the four women acted out a scene. "One of them said, "Gib ihr die Spritze. Wir müssen die Informationen zu erhalten (Give her the shot. We must have the information.)" Another of them, a stripper who also had some nurse's training, gave Doris a real injection in the thigh where the needle mark would not show. The heavy tranquilizer would keep her asleep. In the dubbing room, another actress would imitate Doris' voice giving them the information.

Doris' wrists and ankles were quickly untied and she was dressed in her white, silk pajamas, covered with a blanket, and left to sleep. When she awoke later that evening, her husband was with her, explaining that she had passed out from an infection but the doctor gave her a shot and said she'd be fine in the morning.

"But I had the most incredible dream," she said.

From the footage that was shot, combined with outtakes from the movie Doris had been filming and new material with Elke, a separate movie was created about an American spy who is drugged and replaced by a smarter Communist spy who gets the secret information for East Germany.

The movie was shown in only one theatre in East Berlin. It received no publicity except for word of mouth. But the interest in seeing this American movie star in such situations was so great that the movie played there from 1976 until the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989. It made so much money that the men Doris' husband was in debt to made back what he owed them five hundred times over. One of the last acts of the Communist regime was to destroy the negatives.