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.
I fell in love with her watch the creature from the black lagoon.
She had a natural beauty.
So much today is painted on with a trowel and that’s after having facial surgery.
Neat!
Guillermo del Toro recently made a movie where a similar monster.
From what I recall hearing from a friend who had the misfortune of seeing it the plot goes something like this. It takes places in the ‘50s in a secret goverment lab where the U.S. military has captured a creature similar to the one from black lagoon. A lonely mute janitor woman falls in love with the creature and decides to save it from being vivsected by straight, white males with the help of her gay and minority friends. She brings it home to live in her bathtub, but at some point floods the entire apartment with water (up to the ceiling) and *ahem* makes “love” to the creature. The government obviously finds them (though, by this point the movie is so stupid that maybe nothing should be obvious), apparently, after being pursued by the government and one of the “couple” nearly dying (I can’t recall which), they escape into the ocean and live happily ever after.
For the record, none of that made much sense to me either, but this, apparently, is what leftists idiots find entertaining and meaningful in todays society.
I also seem to recall this stupid movie won best picture at the oscars. Yikes!
I searched winners and nominees from 1945-1962 and it’s not listed.
The “Shape of Water” which is a recent libtard ripoff of “Creature from the Black Lagoon” won best picture; not the original film.
It had more in common with the sequel: “Revenge of the Creature”
Hey this was a different take on the Creature and a very romantic film with the twist where the REAL monster was the government contractor pursuing him. It was a beautiful film but, hopefully, we will get that remake on the original.
RIP.
“Just watched her last week in an old “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” episode “
I watched that same episode on Youtube last week !
Amazing Adventures #15?
Opposite for me. I wanted to save them. My mom threw them out without telling me. I was devastated.
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