![]() Newmar’s film start was fairly inauspicious, playing 12 uncredited parts between 1952’s She’s Working Her Way Through College and 1954’s Demetrius and the Gladiators. She was a performer at MGM and a choreographer at Universal.” Julie Newmar and Jeff Richards in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, 1954 MGM/courtesy “Julie was an excellent dancer and it was her statuesque beauty and the excellent dancing that people saw that brought her to the attention of both MGM and Universal Studios. Newmar was only 15, Geoffrey continues, but she was a very tall woman at five feet, eleven inches with a lot of ballet talent. As a result, her early public exposure is being a ballerina with the LA Opera and she got noticed from there.” “Julie came into show business kind of sideways, because she was born in Los Angeles and one didn’t come to the West Coast to go into theater or to play in a classical orchestra or be a ballerina,” Geoffrey points out. She was born Julia Chalene Newmeyer on Augto a Swedish-French fashion designer mother and a professional football player and Los Angeles City College Head of Physical Education father. Julie’s Early Days Julie Newmar, from the show Lil Abner, as she arrived for the premiere of Band of Angels, 1957 Getty Images Here, we take a trip into Newmar’s incredible life. ![]() Instead, Julie Newmar has starred in 43 movies, 45 television guest appearances, her own TV shows and hitting the stage in 13 different shows. It has to, because 12 appearances on a television show between 19 does not a 70-year career make. ©20th Century Fox/Getty ImagesĪnd yet that only represents a fraction of who Julie is. “ That’s how strong her influence was.” Julie Newmar as Catwoman on the 1960s series Batman. “For Baby Boomers or anyone who’s ever watched a rerun of Batman, her performance is so memorable, and because of that performance - her demeanor, body language, the outfits and the way the character talks - the character was changed in the comic books,” Geoffrey Mark, a pop culture historian, actor, author of The Lucy Book and friend of Julie Newmar’s tells FIRST for Women.
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