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Julie Adams—Actor

Fame

Julie Adams, best known for being the target of The Creature From The Black Lagoon in that classic, is appropriately the wife of the creator of the robot.

Work

Julie Adams (born Betty May Adams on October 17, 1926 in Waterloo, Iowa) is an American film actress, sometimes credited as Julia Adams or Betty Adams. ... She used her real name, Betty Adams, until 1949 when she began working for Universal Pictures. She then became Julia and eventually Julie Adams. Adams is probably best remembered as the bathing beauty in 1954's Creature From the Black Lagoon.

Adams will play Julie Powell, the food blogger–turned-author whose book, Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen, inspired the flick.

Julie) Adams, Mamie Van Doren, ZaSu Pitts and Chill Wills, in voice and in person, also star. 95 min.