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Date of Birth

17 October 1926, Waterloo, Iowa, USA

Birth Name

Betty May Adams

Height

5' 6" (1.68 m)

Mini Biography

Although born in the Hawkeye State, Betty May Adams grew up in Arkansas and made her acting debut in a third grade play, "Hansel and Gretel". Deciding to become an actress, she moved to California, where she worked three days a week as a secretary (to support herself) and spent the remainder of her time taking speech lessons and making the rounds at the various studios' casting departments. Her first movie role was playing a starlet, appropriately enough, in Paramount's Red, Hot and Blue (1949), followed by a leading role in the Lippert Western The Dalton Gang (1949). Over a period of five weeks, she appeared in six more quickie Lippert Westerns. Adams' first big show biz break was at Universal, when she appeared in a screen test opposite All-American footballer Leon Hart, a Detroit Lions end. It was Hart who was being considered by the studio, but the gridiron star flopped while Universal execs flipped over Adams. The studio changed her first name from Betty to Julia (and later to Julie).

IMDb Mini Biography By: Tom Weaver

Spouse

Ray Danton

(1954 - 1981) (divorced)

Trivia

Has two sons.

Measurements: 35-25-36 (source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine).

In Italy, all her films were dubbed by either Dhia Cristiani, Renata Marini or Lidia Simoneschi.

Universal publicity in the '50s claimed that her legs won an award as "the most perfectly symmetrical in the world" and that they were insured for $125,000.

Interviewed in Tom Weaver's book "They Fought in the Creature Features" (McFarland & Co., 1995).

Personal Quotes

No matter what you do, you can act your heart out, but people will always say, "Oh, Julie Adams - Creature from the Black Lagoon."

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