# DeeDee Fleming — Short Fiction character guide

> DeeDee Fleming in Short Fiction by Henry Kuttner.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** DeeDee, the beautiful and brainless DeeDee, the obedient DeeDee

**First appearance:** 0000-the-secret-of-kralitz

## Snapshot

Hollywood's most beautiful star, whose mind is a calm three-inch pool that only St. Cyr's bellowing can stir—and whose picture-to-picture contract is the leash that rules a studio.

## Who they are

DeeDee is the box-office miracle St. Cyr built his feudal production unit around, a woman so stunning that everyone assumes her stupidity and is never disappointed. She can imitate emotions under bullying but has no semantic purchase on them, and her refusal to sign long-term is the threat St. Cyr uses to make even Tolliver Watt knuckle under. Her blank obedience is the engine of the industry satire: a star who cannot act, owned by a director who cannot be replaced, in a system that calls this art.

## Relationships

### [Nicholas Martin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_27_se/characters/nicholas_martin)

_psychological_

DeeDee Fleming is obsessively fixated on Nicholas Martin, manipulating situations to control him.

### [Nicholas Martin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_27_se/characters/nicholas_martin)

_psychological_

DeeDee Fleming is obsessively fixated on Nicholas Martin, manipulating situations to control him.

### [Nicholas Martin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_27_se/characters/nicholas_martin)

_psychological_

DeeDee Fleming is obsessively fixated on Nicholas Martin, manipulating situations to control him.

## In the story

### [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_27_se/chapters/i)

A beautiful actress mentioned as being under contract to St. Cyr, central to the studio's power dynamics.

### [Chapter II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_27_se/chapters/ii)

The beautiful but brainless star, placidly watching her own performance on screen, oblivious to the tension.

### [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_27_se/chapters/iii)

Present during the confrontation with St. Cyr, watching with a cheerful smile.

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