Posted on 02/04/2019 7:38:24 AM PST by Borges
Julie Adams, the actress best-known for starring in the 1954 monster horror film “The Creature From the Black Lagoon, has died. She was 92.
Adams died Sunday in Los Angeles, according to her official website.
“The Shape of Water” director Guillermo del Toro paid tribute to the actress, writing, “I mourn Julie Adams passing. It hurts in a place deep in me, where monsters swim.”
During her storied career, Adams appeared in 50 films and even more television episodes. Along with “Creature From the Black Lagoon, which catapulted her film career, she starred alongside Elvis Presley in 1965’s “Tickle Me,” worked with Dennis Hopper in 1971’s “The Last Movie,” and appeared with Jimmy Stewart in “Bend in the River.” Her other movie roles include “Francis Joins the WACS,” “The Private War of Major Benson,” “Mississippi Gambler,” “Bright Victory,” and “Slaughter on Tenth Avenue.”
Born Betty May Adams on Oct. 17, 1926 in Waterloo, Iowa, Adams spent her formative years in Arkansas before moving to California. She took acting lessons while working as a secretary before landing her first film role, 1949’s “Red Hot and Blue” for Paramount, which she followed up with a number of Westerns. She changed her name to Julie by the early ’50s after signing with Universal in 1949.
Adams married actor-director Ray Danton, her co-star in the 1955 action film “The Looters.” They also appeared together in 1958’s “Tarawa Beachhead” and 1975’s horror flick “Psychic Killer” before divorcing in 1981. The couple had two children, Steve Danton and Mitchell Danton.
After her divorce, Adams had a long-term relationship with screenwriter Ronald M. Cohen, known for projects like “The Good Guys and the Bad Guys,” “Twilight’s Last Gleaming,” and “Last Stand at Saber River” starring Tom Selleck.
On the television front, Adams appeared in series such as “CSI: New York,” “Alfred Hitchcock Presents,” “The Andy Griffith Show,” “Too Close for Comfort,” “General Hospital,” “Beverly Hills, 90210,” “The Colgate Comedy Hour,” and “Melrose Place.” She also played a recurring role on CBS’s “Murder, She Wrote.”
She is survived by her two sons and four grandchildren.
RIP
I loved those old rubber suit movies, where the women just stood there and screamed while the monster slowly lumbered toward them rather than run away.
The movie was filmed at Silver Springs Shores, Florida.
The lake is alive with alligators...
That scene you posted was once a flicker book when I was a kid. I had one of them. You would grab the edge of the book and flip the pages quickly with your thumb and all the little pictures would flick by and present that very same scene.
Memories!
By the way, rather than waste time with a funeral I believe they tossed her body in the lagoon to feed the creature. Ah, he finally catched her. She offered no resistance.
Creeps me out a bit that I hadn't seen or thought of her in years...and now this news.
I haven’t thought of those flip-books in years! I used to have them, too.
Loved the creature back in the day.
Running only made them fall down. I grew up thinking girls just can't run!
Had no idea she had lived so long. Saw her in many movies and TV shows. RIP.
I had some of those flicker books. They were neat.
Huh?
nice GIF!
Ricou Browning is my Brother-in-Law’s First Cousin.
He was a student at Florida State. Browning picked up the film crew at the airport and drove them to the springs. They looked it over and decided it was fine for the movie setting.
They asked him to swim under water to check how the cameras worked under water. They liked his style and had him be the monster underwater. Another person was him out of the water.
Browning has had a long and very successful career doing and choreographing under water scenes.
Neat story. They had a job to do and just did it.
Nice rack!
Just another one of those things that I wished I still had today so that I could be rich.
Me too. I was always silently in love with her.
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