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Julie Adams

 
Artist: Julie Adams
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Michael Lipton
  • Active: '90s, 2000s
  • Genres: Rock
  • Instrument: Vocals
  • Representative Albums: "Live," "Live, Vol. 2," "Struck by Moonlight"

Biography

The longtime featured vocalist on the popular syndicated radio series Mountain Stage, Julie Adams was also a staple of the many CD collections the show spawned; she and backing band the Rhino Boys made their solo debut in 1996 with Struck by Moonlight, releasing Live a year later. I Don't Mind Walking followed in 1999. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide
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Actor: Julie Adams
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  • Born: Oct 17, 1926 in Waterloo, Iowa
  • Occupation: Actor
  • Active: '50s-'90s
  • Major Genres: Drama, Mystery
  • Career Highlights: Away All Boats, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Bend of the River
  • First Major Screen Credit: Bright Victory (1951)

Biography

A former secretary, Julie Adams inaugurated her film career in a series of slapped-together westerns starring James Ellison and Russell Hayden. She billed herself under her real name of Betty Adams until she was signed by Universal in 1949; she then became Julia Adams, which was modified to Julie by the early 1950s. Fans of the 1953 horror film Creature From the Black Lagoon tend to believe that Julie became a leading lady on the strength of her role in this film as the imperiled--and fetchingly underclad--heroine. In fact, she had been cast in good parts as early as 1950, notably the wealthy fiancee of newly blinded GI Arthur Kennedy in Bright Victory (1951). Curiously, some of her largest roles of the 1950s, in films like The Private War of Major Benson (1955) and Away All Boats (1956), were her least interesting. She cut down on her film appearances in the early 1960s to concentrate on television, a medium that permitted her to hold out for meatier acting assignments. Though she still tended to be cast in such negligible roles as the star's wife in The Jimmy Stewart Show (1971), Julie was proud of her many powerful guest-star appearances on dramatic programs: she was particularly fond of her performance as a middle-aged pregnant woman on a 1969 installment of Marcus Welby MD. Julie Adams was at one time married to actor/director Ray Danton. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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Julie Adams
Born Betty May Adams
October 17, 1926 (1926-10-17) (age 82)
Waterloo, Iowa, U.S.
Other name(s) Julia Adams, Betty Adams
Years active 1949–2008
Spouse(s) Ray Danton (1954–1981) (divorced)
Domestic partner(s) Ronald M Cohen (died 1998)
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Julie Adams (born Betty May Adams on October 17, 1926) is an American film and television actress, sometimes credited as Julia Adams or Betty Adams.

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Life and career

A part-time secretary and actress raised in Arkansas, she began her film career in B-movie westerns.

She used her real name, Betty Adams, until 1949 when she began working for Universal Pictures. She then became Julia and eventually Julie Adams. Her first movie role was a minor part in Red, Hot and Blue (1949), followed by a leading role in the Lippert western The Dalton Gang (1949). Adams was featured as the bathing beauty Kay Lawrence in 1954's Creature from the Black Lagoon.

Later in her career, she played guest starring roles for television, including Maverick, The Man and the Challenge, and as real estate agent "Eve Simpson" on Murder, She Wrote.

Personal life

Adams was married to actor/director Ray Danton from 1954 until 1981, and they had two sons together, Steven Danton an assistant director and Mitchell Danton, an editor. She had a later relationship with Ronald M Cohen, a screenwriter who died of heart failure in April 1998 at age 58 [1][2].

Filmography

Television

As herself

  • E! True Hollywood Story (2004) (TV Episode)
  • Creature Feature: 50 Years of the Gill-Man (2004)
  • Back to the Black Lagoon: A Creature Chronicle (2000)

References

  1. ^ http://www.julieadams.biz/bio/bio.html
  2. ^ http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/participant.jsp?spid=721&apid=91048

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