Sultry blues vocalist Julie London began her film career long before she achieved fame as a recording artist. In 1945, 18-year-old London was selected to play a bargain-basement jungle princess, appearing opposite a gorilla in the PRC cheapie Nabonga. She was pretty bad, but no worse than the film itself. By the time she was cast as a sexy teenager in The Red House (1947), her acting had improved immensely, and by the time she played the female lead in the 1951 programmer The Fat Man, it looked as though she actually had a future in films. Still, London's greatest claim to fame was her long string of hit records ("Cry Me a River" et. al.) of the 1950s; many male admirers bought her albums simply to gaze upon her come-hither countenance on the dust jacket. Her status as every red-blooded American boy's wish dream was gently lampooned in Frank Tashlin's The Girl Can't Help It (1956), in which she appears as a spectral vision who transfixes a wistful Tom Ewell. Her best dramatic film appearances of this period include her leading-lady gigs in Voice in the Mirror (1958) and Man of the West (1958). From 1945 through 1955, Julie London was the wife of actor/producer Jack Webb; years after the divorce, London played Nurse Dixie McCall on the popular Jack Webb-produced TV series Emergency, in which she co-starred with her second husband, actor/jazz musician Bobby Troup.
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Broken Noses
Composer (Music Score) |
1987 | |||
| 1978 | ||||
| 1978 | ||||
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Adam-12: Lost and Found
Actor |
1972 | |||
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Emergency!
Actor |
1972 | |||
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The Helicopter Spies
Actor |
1968 | |||
| 1965 | ||||
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The George Raft Story
Actor |
1961 | |||
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The Third Voice
Actor |
1960 | |||
| 1959 | ||||
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The Wonderful Country
Actor |
1959 | |||
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A Question of Adultery
Actor |
1958 | |||
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Man of the West
Actor |
1958 | |||
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Saddle the Wind
Actor |
1958 | |||
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The Voice in the Mirror
Actor, Songwriter |
1958 | |||
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Drango
Actor |
1957 | |||
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Crime Against Joe
Actor |
1956 | |||
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The Girl Can't Help It
Actor |
1956 | |||
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The Great Man
Actor |
1956 | |||
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The Fighting Chance
Actor |
1955 | |||
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The Fat Man
Actor |
1951 | |||
| 1950 | ||||
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Task Force
Actor |
1949 | |||
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Tap Roots
Actor |
1948 | |||
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The Red House
Actor |
1947 | |||
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A Night in Paradise
Actor |
1946 | |||
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Diamond Horseshoe
Actor |
1945 | |||
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On Stage Everybody
Actor |
1945 | |||
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Nabonga
Actor |
1944 |


