Julie Adams, ‘Creature From the Black Lagoon’ Star, Dies at 92
“It hurts deep within me, in a place where monsters swim,” Guillermo del Toro writes in tribute
Thom Geier | February 4, 2019 @ 5:01 AM
Last Updated: February 4, 2019 @ 5:21 AM
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Julie Adams, an actress best known for playing the damsel in distress in the 1954 monster movie “Creature From the Black Lagoon,” died Sunday at age 92, according to her official website.
Guillermo del Toro, whose 2017 Oscar winner “The Shape of Water” was inspired by the Universal cult classic, paid tribute to Adams online. “I mourn Julie Adams passing. It hurts in a place deep in me, where monsters swim.”
During her long career in Hollywood, Adams starred opposite Rock Hudson in 1953’s “Lawless Breed,” Van Helfin in 1953’s “Wings of the Hawk” Elvis Presley in “Tickle Me,” and Dennis Hopper in 1971’s “The Last Movie.”
Her most recent film credit was a voiceover in Roman Polanski’s 2011 drama “Carnage.”
The Iowa native also had a long career in television, notably playing the Cabot Cove real estate agent Eve Simpson opposite Angela Lansbury in the long-running mystery “Murder, She Wrote” in the 1980s and early ’90s.
She also appeared on shows like “Perry Mason,” “Quincy” and the short-lived early ’70s series “The Jimmy Stewart Show” as Stewart’s wife.
But she will be best remembered for her role in “Creature From the Black Lagoon,” a horror movie update on “The Beauty and the Beast” that she was at first reluctant to do despite being under contract at Universal.
“I think the best thing about the picture is that we do feel for the creature,” she said in a 2013 interview with Horror Society. “We feel for him and his predicament.”
Del Toro and other fans were quick to way in with tributes to Adams.
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For me, the greatest Julie Adams performance was in
Perry Mason in
The Case Of the Deadly Verdict. The episode
begins in a courtroom where a verdict is expected in a murder trial. It's a dark and stormy night as demonstrated by the thunder and lightning special effects. Julie Adams imperiously walks in and is seated next to Perry. Astonishingly enough Julie is convicted of the crime due to such nonsense as overwhelming evidence. Wait a minute. Perry never loses cases so what's with the verdict and the subsequent death sentence? Stay tuned.
Well, it turns out that the real murderer is Steve Franken's character. Steve was best know as the arrogant and effete
Chatsworth Osborne Junior on the
Dobie Gillis Show. Steve gets all hysterical at the end as Wesley Lau threatens to shoot him. Great show.
According to IMDB Julie Adams appeared on Perry Mason four times:
She appeared on
77 Sunset Strip (five times),
Arrest and Trial,
The Andy Griffith Show,
Surfside 6 (twice),
Murder, She Wrote (ten times), and shitloads more.
ROBERT RYAN JULIE ADAMS & RAYMOND BURR HORIZONS WEST (1952)
