Julie Newmar

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Julie Newmar

Julie Newmar (* 16 August 1933 in Los Angeles , California , as Julia Chalene Newmeyer ) is an American actress , singer and dancer .

Life

Julie Newmar, who in her family tree a. a. Has Swedish , German and Welsh ancestors, is the daughter of Prof. Donald Charles Newmeyer (1902–1992) and his wife Helen (née Jesmer). Her childhood included a. Lessons in ballet, piano and voice training. After completing her school education at John Marshall High School , she began studying at UCLA , which she dropped out after successfully attending a casting to work as an actress. At the age of 15 she was already a prima ballerina at the Los Angeles Opera .

In the 1970s she showed inventive talent and registered three patents for two pieces of underwear: a pair of tights and a bra.

Newmar, who claims to have received up to nine marriage proposals in one year, did not marry for the first time until she was over 40 - a lawyer six years his junior. Their son was born in 1981 with Down's syndrome and two inoperable holes in the heart, and the divorce followed six months later. At the age of two, her son lost hearing due to meningitis, and Newmar left the acting business to devote herself to her son as well as to teach disabled children at a public school . The real estate business that her mother had founded provided for the financing of the living.

In the meantime, Newmar was the muse of Thierry Mugler . She also starred in the 1992 music video Too Funky , which Mugler directed for George Michael . In 2013 she received an honor from the LGBT community, more precisely: the Lifetime Achievement Award from the organization Gay and Lesbian Elder Housing (GLEH) . Newmar knows the situation of LGBT people from her own family, because her brother John (* 1940), a medical doctor and winemaker with Caltech and Harvard degrees, is gay.

Newmar has suffered from the neuromuscular disease Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease since she was born . However, the symptoms only really became apparent in old age. At the end of the 1990s she initiated a temporary ban on leaf blowers in her hometown.

Career

At the very beginning, Newmar was a so-called “dance-in”, more or less the dance equivalent of a stunt double . The actress made her screen debut in a small role in Elliott Nugent's musical comedy Just for You in 1952. For the first time in credits , the actress was mentioned in 1954 The Serpent of the Nile . In this film adaptation of the story of Mark Antony and Cleopatra , starring Raymond Burr and Rhonda Fleming , Newmar appeared as an exotic dancer. In 1961 she received a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Young Actress for her role in Ehekarussell .

In the following years Newmar played mostly supporting and guest roles in television series and films. In the mid-1960s, the actress appeared as Catwoman in two seasons of the television series Batman . On the final season of Batman, Newmar was replaced by Eartha Kitt as she was filming the western MacKenna's Gold starring Gregory Peck and Omar Sharif . In this film, she even had a short nude scene, but the work was not granted any success. She had other films together a. with James Mason and Kirk Douglas .

The title of the 1995 film To Wong Foo, thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar pays homage to the actress, whose photo with this dedication serves as a good luck charm for the protagonists of the film. In the final scene of the film, Julie Newmar makes a brief guest appearance.

reception

On the occasion of their wedding in 1977 People magazine critically noted that she had been a starlet for 23 years and largely condemned to roles that demanded less of her than she did from the towels and skimpy costumes that kept her the last bits of decency. ( English She’s been a starlet for 23 years, condemned largely to a series of cheesecakey roles that demanded less of her than they did of the towels and skimpy costumes that preserved her last few shreds of modesty ).

Around her 80th birthday, the four-part mini-comic series The Secret Life Of Julie Newmar was released.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1952: Just for You
  • 1953: The Serpent of the Nile
  • 1953: Slaves of Babylon
  • 1953: The Band Wagon
  • 1954: Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Seven Brides for Seven Brothers)
  • 1959: Li'l Abner
  • 1959: The Rookie
  • 1960: The Marriage-Go-Round
  • 1963: The Fox Trap (For Love or Money)
  • 1966–1967: Batman (TV series, two seasons)
  • 1967: Star Trek - The Original Series : In the Name of Young Tiru (Friday's Child)
  • 1969: MacKenna's Gold (MacKenna's Gold)
  • 1969: The Maltese Bippy
  • 1970: Up Your Teddy Bear
  • 1971: The Feminist and the Fuzz
  • 1972: A Very Missing Person
  • 1973: Fools, Females and Fun
  • 1973: Columbo : Double Shock
  • 1975: The Black Box Murders
  • 1977: Terraces
  • 1979: Love Boat - Marriage was not planned (TV series)
  • 1980: Buck Rogers : Flight through the Vortex Part 1 and 2 (Flight of the War Witch) (TV series)
  • 1983: A Jump in the Bowl (Hysterical)
  • 1983: Hard but warm : The Killer Lady and the Chauffeur (A Change of Hart) (Episode 4.19)
  • 1984: Ecstasy
  • 1984: Love Scenes
  • 1985: Evils of the Night
  • 1985: Streetwalkin '- On the streets of Manhattan (Streetwalkin')
  • 1987 Deep Space (Deep Space)
  • 1988: Dance Academy (Dance Academy)
  • 1989: Robo-Chic
  • 1990: My mind always wants one thing ... (Ghosts Can't Do It)
  • 1990: Nudity Required
  • 1994: Alien Desperados (Oblivion)
  • 1995: To Wong Foo, thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar
  • 1996: Galaxy Hunter (Backlash: Oblivion 2)
  • 2003: Return to the Batcave: The Misadventures of Adam and Burt
  • 2006: Again and again Jim Episode: The Dear Neighbors (The Grumpy Guy)

Web links

Commons : Julie Newmar  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Follers: Julie Newmar - Ethnic Celebs - What Nationality Ancestry Race. In: ethnicelebs.com. Retrieved November 22, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b c Kent Demaret: At 42, Julie Newmar Takes Her First Husband, and a Texas Lawyer Gets His Own Living Doll - Vol. 8 No. 11. In: people.com. September 12, 1977, accessed November 21, 2017 .
  3. ↑ a b c Chris Huqueriza: Julie Newmar, Original Catwoman, Receives LGBT Award - Celebrity - A&E - SFGN Articles. In: southfloridagaynews.com. January 15, 2013, accessed November 21, 2017 .
  4. ↑ US3914799 (A) - 1975-10-28. In: worldwide.espacenet.com. October 28, 1975, accessed November 22, 2017 .
  5. ↑ US4003094 (A) - 1977-01-18. In: worldwide.espacenet.com. January 18, 1977, accessed November 22, 2017 .
  6. ↑ US3935865 (A) - 1976-02-03. In: worldwide.espacenet.com. February 3, 1976, accessed November 22, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Janice Min: Feline Groovy - Vol. 44 No. 16. In: people.com. October 16, 1995, accessed November 21, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Linda Lowen: Julie Newmar's Many Lives - Women Changing Careers and Surviving a Divorce. In: thoughtco.com. February 7, 2016, accessed November 22, 2017 .
  9. ^ Booth Moore: Catching up with the original Catwoman, Julie Newmar. In: LA Times. January 24, 2011, accessed November 22, 2017 .
  10. ^ John Newmeyer: John Newmeyer - About. In: newmeyer.com. Retrieved November 21, 2017 .
  11. ↑ Denise Dador: Actress shares her story about having CMT. In: abc7.com. May 14, 2010, accessed November 22, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Peter Gumbel: Actress Julie Newmar and OtherStruggle With Noisy LeafBlowers. In: wsj.com. December 3, 1997, accessed November 22, 2017 .
  13. ↑ Bruce Edwin: Julie Newmar - TV's Hottest Femme Fatale. In: thehollywoodsentinel.com. Retrieved November 22, 2017 .
  14. ↑ Nick Thomas: Julie Newmar on aging beautifully. In: thespectrum.com. August 4, 2016, accessed November 22, 2017 .
  15. ^ Marc Shapiro: The Secret Lives of Julie Newmar , Bluewater Productions, ISBN 978-1-4675-1620-4 .
personal data
SURNAME Newmar, Julie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Newmeyer, Julia Chalene (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actress, singer and dancer
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Los Angeles , California , United States