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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsR.I.P. Julie "Creature From The Black Lagoon" Adams
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/julie-adams-dead-creature-black-lagoon-actress-was-92-1047543
A leading lady at Universal in the 1950s, she had memorable stints on 'Perry Mason' and 'Murder, She Wrote' and played Jimmy Stewart's wife on TV.
Julie Adams, the comely brunette with the cascading curls best remembered as the damsel in distress in the 1954 horror classic Creature From the Black Lagoon, has died. She was 92.
Adams died early Sunday morning in Los Angeles, her son Mitchell Danton, a TV editor, told The Hollywood Reporter.
In more than six decades in film and on television, Adams also starred with Donald O'Connor in Francis Joins the WACS (1954), played opposite Elvis Presley in Tickle Me (1965) and appeared with Dennis Hopper in The Last Movie (1971) and with John Wayne in McQ (1974).
Fans of Murder, She Wrote know Adams for playing the eccentric realtor Eve Simpson on the long-running Angela Lansbury starrer, and in the early 1970s, she portrayed Jimmy Stewart's wife in the legendary actor's first foray into starring on his own series.
fleur-de-lisa
(14,628 posts)I have it on DVR and still watch it occasionally. I love the monster's theme music!
RIP Ms Adams.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,608 posts)Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)I've often been tempted to buy it.
I've seen it once in 3D...on "Creature Features," decades ago. They sold the 3-D glasses at 7-11.
bif
(22,747 posts)oswaldactedalone
(3,491 posts)from the Andy Griffith Show for one episode. Often wondered why there was a different county nurse Mary in the second episode featuring that character. Pretty lady, loved the pillbox hat she wore in that episode.
JuJuYoshida
(2,216 posts)Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)I've seen that still hundred of times. I always wait for it when I watch the movie.
Aristus
(66,462 posts)But she was a terrible screamer.
1. Sees frightening thing.
2. Looks horrified.
3. Opens mouth wide to scream.
4. Waits five seconds.
5. Screams loudly.
6. Too late by that point for someone to come to her rescue.
Clash City Rocker
(3,398 posts)hunter
(38,327 posts)...the family has asked for memorial donations to charities The Nature Conservancy or the World Wildlife Fund.
In her Horror Society interview, Adams gave one reason why she thought Creature from the Black Lagoon's reputation has endured.
"I think the best thing about the picture is that we do feel for the creature. We feel for him and his predicament," she said.