Julie Bishop

Actor: Julie Bishop

Born: Aug 30, 1914 in Denver, Colorado
Died: Aug 30, 2001
Occupation: Actor
Active: '40s-'50s
Major Genres: Drama, Crime
Career Highlights: The Hidden Hand, Rhapsody in Blue, Hollywood Canteen
First Major Screen Credit: Night Cargo (1936)

Biography

Born to a wealthy Denver banker/oilman, Jacqueline Wells began her 35-year film career as a child actress in 1923. She left films near the end of the silent era to study acting at the Pasadena Playhouse and dancing with Theodore Kosloff. The newly blonde Ms. Wells returned to films in 1932, briefly (and reluctantly) billed as Diane Duval until signed to a Paramount contract in 1933. A reigning queen of "B"-pictures throughout the 1930s, Jacqueline worked at Universal (The Black Cat [1934]), Monogram (The Mouthpiece [1934]) and Hal Roach (The Bohemian Girl [1936]) before settling into a 2-year tenure as all-purpose leading lady at Columbia. Feeling that her career was slowing to a halt, she reinvented herself, transforming from imperiled ingenue Jacqueline Wells to the self-assured, quip-for-all-occasions Julie Bishop. Though many of her roles under her new name were secondary, they attracted attention to her acting abilities, and even gave her an occasional opportunity to sing. Among her better "Julie Bishop" assignments were such roles as Mrs. Ira Gershwin in Rhapsody in Blue (1945) and John Wayne's wistful one-night stand in Sands of Iwo Jima (1949). In 1953, Wells/Bishop co-starred with Bob Cummings on the 39-week TV sitcom My Hero. Julie Bishop is the mother of actress Pamela Shoop, her daughter by her third husband, Dr. Clarence Shoop. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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Julie Bishop

Born	Jacqueline Wells August 30, 1914(1914-08-30) Denver, Colorado, U.S.
Died	August 30, 2001 (aged 87) Mendocino, California, U.S.
Other name(s)	Jacqueline Wells Diane Duval
Years active	1923–1957

Julie Bishop (August 30, 1914 – August 30, 2001) was an American film and television actress. She appeared in over 80 films between 1923 and 1957.

Bishop was born Jacqueline Wells and used her birth name professionally through 1941. She also appeared on stage (and in one film) as Diane Duval.Early in her career she appeared in several Laurel and Hardy films (Any Old Port! and The Bohemian Girl),and she settled on the name by which she is best remembered when offered a contract by Warner Bros. on the condition that she change her name, which was associated with her almost exclusively B-movie appearances through 1941 (amounting to nearly 50 films over 17 years). She choose the name because it matched the monograms on her luggage (she had for a time been married to Walter Booth Brooks III, a writer).

She made 16 films at Warners, including a supporting role in 1943's Princess O'Rourke, supporting Olivia de Havilland and Robert Cummings. While filming, she met her second husband, Clarence Shoop, a pilot. She was Humphrey Bogart's leading lady in Action in the North Atlantic (1943), played Ira Gershwin's wife in the biopic Rhapsody in Blue (1945), and closed out her Warners years in 1946's Cinderella Jones.

In 1949, Bishop played a down-on-her-luck wife and mother in The Sands of Iwo Jima, opposite John Wayne. She was among several former Wayne co-stars (including Laraine Day, Ann Doran, Jan Sterling, and Claire Trevor) who joined the actor in the 1954 aviation drama The High and the Mighty.

Personal life

Bishop had one daughter, actress Pamela Susan Shoop, and one son (also by Shoop), like his father a pilot.

External links

Julie Bishop at the Internet Movie Database
Julie Bishop at Allmovie
Vallance, Tom,"Obituary: Julie Bishop", The Independent, September 11, 2001. Retrieved November 29, 2006

Persondata
NAME	Bishop, Julie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Wells, Jacqueline
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Actor
DATE OF BIRTH	August 30, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH	Denver, Colorado, U.S.
DATE OF DEATH	August 30, 2001
PLACE OF DEATH	Mendocino, California, U.S.

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