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Julie Adams (Betty May Adams) was born on 17 October, 1926 in Waterloo, Iowa, USA, is an actress,miscellaneous. Discover Julie Adams's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 92 years old?
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Betty May Adams |
Occupation |
actress,miscellaneous |
Age |
92 years old |
Zodiac Sign |
Libra |
Born |
17 October, 1926 |
Birthday |
17 October |
Birthplace |
Waterloo, Iowa, USA |
Date of death |
3 February, 2019 |
Died Place |
Los Angeles, California, USA |
Nationality |
United States
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She is a member of famous Actress with the age 92 years old group.
Julie Adams Height, Weight & Measurements
At 92 years old, Julie Adams height is 5' 6" (1.68 m) .
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5' 6" (1.68 m) |
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Who Is Julie Adams's Husband?
Her husband is Ray Danton (20 February 1955 - 13 April 1978) ( divorced) ( 2 children), Leonard Stern (2 January 1951 - 13 October 1953) ( divorced)
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Husband |
Ray Danton (20 February 1955 - 13 April 1978) ( divorced) ( 2 children), Leonard Stern (2 January 1951 - 13 October 1953) ( divorced) |
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Julie Adams Net Worth
Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Julie Adams worth at the age of 92 years old? Julie Adams’s income source is mostly from being a successful Actress. She is from United States. We have estimated Julie Adams's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
Net Worth in 2024 |
$1 Million - $5 Million |
Salary in 2024 |
Under Review |
Net Worth in 2023 |
Pending |
Salary in 2023 |
Under Review |
House |
Not Available |
Cars |
Not Available |
Source of Income |
Actress |
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Timeline
Moved to Blytheville, Arkansas, with her family, when she was a young girl. She later attended and graduated from Little Rock Central High School (class of 1944).
Betty May Adams was the daughter of a travelling Iowa cotton buyer with a penchant for alcohol. Growing up in Arkansas, Betty expressed an early interest in acting and made her performing debut in a third grade play of "Hansel and Gretel". Beautiful, talented and determined, the freshly minted 'Miss Little Rock' left home at the age of 19 to live with her aunt and uncle in California. For three days a week she made ends meet working as a secretary. The remainder of her time was spent taking speech and drama lessons (in due course losing her Southern twang) and making the rounds of the various Hollywood casting departments. Her first screen role was (appropriately) as a starlet in Paramount's Red, Hot and Blue (1949).
This was followed by an inauspicious leading role in the B-grade Western The Dalton Gang (1949). Over a period of five weeks she appeared in six further quota quickies of the sagebrush variety for Poverty Row outfit Lippert Productions. Since Lippert owned no actual studio facilities, most of the filming took place at the Ray Corrigan ranch in Chatsworth, California.
In the summer of 1950, Betty assisted in a screen test for Detroit Lions football star Leon Hart at Universal-International. While Hart's movie career ended up stillborn, Betty clicked with producers who opted to change her first name to 'Julia'.
The initial outing for her new studio was entitled Bright Victory (1951), with the budding actress a little underemployed as 'the other girl' in a love triangle involving a blind war veteran (played by Arthur Kennedy).
Her career was significantly better served in her next assignment as co-star opposite James Stewart in Anthony Mann's seminal Technicolor western Bend of the River (1952) (Kennedy this time cast as the arch villain). Adams later recalled her part in this film as "a great learning experience" and one of her "fondest Hollywood memories". It also led to a life long friendship with Jimmy Stewart. Signed to a seven-year contract (and having her legs insured by Universal to the tune of $125,000 by Lloyds of London), Julia seemed destined to remain perpetually typecast as a western heroine. A comely actress with soft, classical features, she often gave affecting performances in what amounted to little more than bread-and-butter pictures.
At the very least, she got to play romantic leads opposite some of Universal's top box-office earners: Rock Hudson (in Horizons West (1952) and The Lawless Breed (1952)), Tyrone Power(The Mississippi Gambler (1953)) and Glenn Ford (The Man from the Alamo (1953)).
Having played a succession of 'nice girls', Julia took a turn as leader of an outlaw gang in Wings of the Hawk (1953), set against the background of the Mexican Revolution (Van Heflin was first-billed as a mining engineer, who, having his gold mine taken over by Federales, joins Julia's band of 'insurrectos').
'Miss Melon Patch' of 1953 was about to experience another important career change, being famously cast as the imperilled heroine Kay Lawrence in Jack Arnolds cultish monster flic Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954), a role Adams initially considered turning down. Shot in 3-D on a shoestring budget, the picture was light on script but strong on atmosphere and proved once again that style can succeed over content. The not inconsiderable physical charms of Miss Adams often dominated the scenery and gave the 'Gill Man' a run for his money. Audiences approved and 'Creature' spawned two further sequels, alas without Julia and with diminishing returns.
Had to perform most of her own stunts in Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954).
In 1955, having generated strong box office heat, Julia changed her moniker (with studio approval) to the less gentle-sounding Julie. Accordingly, she was now offered more varied material ranging from tough melodramas, to comedies and lightweight romances.
Adams further established her credentials with roles which included a soft porn model who survives a plane crash in the Colorado Rockies in The Looters (1955); as a cop's wife in Six Bridges to Cross (1955) (a crime drama based on Boston's Great Brinks Robbery); a sympathetic school's doctor in the family-oriented comedy The Private War of Major Benson (1955) and as the wife of an assistant D. A.
fighting gangland on the New York waterfront in Slaughter on 10th Avenue (1957).
After 1957, her contract with Universal having expired, Adams successfully transitioned into television where she remained a firm favourite in westerns and crime dramas, guest-starring in just about every classic prime-time series covering both genres (Perry Mason (1957) being her personal favourite).
Shared a joint birthday with Beverly Garland. They both guest-starred on the same episode of Mannix (1967).
Latterly, she had a popular recurring role as real estate lady Eve Simpson in Murder, She Wrote (1984). Adams was still in demand for occasional screen appearances well into her 90s. She was married twice: first, to writer-producer Leonard Stern, and, secondly, to the actor Ray Danton.
Interviewed in Tom Weaver's book, "They Fought in the Creature Features" (McFarland & Co., 1995).
Was honored with a Film Career Achievement Award at CineCon. [2011]
Won the Rondo Award for the Monster Kid Hall of Fame at the annual Wonderfest in Louisville, Kentucky. [2012]
Julie Adams passed away in Los Angeles on February 3 2019 at the age of 92.