" And Marcus refused to listen to Kirk""s sincere attempt to save his crew, and divulge Harrison""s location...even for a woman!"WARDEN: "...who wouldn""t do it...even for her..."MONTGOMERY CLIFT: "Prew was a hardhead, the tougher it got...the better he liked it!"PREW: "...who wanted to be left alone..."DEBORAH KERR: "Looks colder""n an iceberg, but she knows the score.And I know who taught her."KAREN: "...who was looking for a real man..."FRANK SINATRA: "He""s such a comical little runt.He makes me want to cry while I""m laughin"" at him."MAGGIO: "...you just have to laugh at him..."DONNA REED: "Sure I""m nice to you.We""re nice to all the boys."LORENE: "...to look at her you""d never guess..."[Note: If casting decisions had gone differently, Aldo Ray, Edmond O""Brien, Joan Crawford, Julie Harris, and Eli Wallach would have played the roles given to Clift, Lancaster, Kerr, Reed, and Sinatra, respectively.In more modern times,Coming Home (1978)portrayed he same plight of the returning serviceman.The major stars, who each gave the performance of their lives in this Best Picture winner, were:Al Stephenson (Fredric March), the eldest returning veteran, an alcoholic Army Sergeant married to loyal Milly (Myrna Loy)Fred Derry (Dana Andrews), a handsome Air Force bombadier involved in two romances - with party-girl wife Marie (Virginia Mayo), and in a new love relationship with Al""s daughter Peggy (Teresa Wright)Homer Parrish (Harold Russell almost uncredited in the film, a WWII vet) as a sailor, the hometown""s former football hero, involved with fiancee/girlfriend Wilma (Cathy O""Donnell)The germinal idea for the literate, meticulously-constructed film came from aTimeMagazine pictorial article (August 7, 1944) that was then re-fashioned into a novel titledGlory for Meby commissioned author MacKinlay Kantor.Gorman and Lorelei were horrified by the sight, although Webster congratulated his "genius" computer whiz: "You""re going to go down in history as the man who killed Superman.