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Julie Adams

Julie Adams
Julie Adams
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)
6 Videos for Julie Adams
Backtrack (1991) The Killer Inside Me (1976) Away All Boats (1956)
Black Roses (1988) Tickle Me (1965) Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
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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.