Julie London

Julie London (September 26, 1926–October 18, 2000) was an American singer and actress. Best known for her smoky, sensual voice, as a singer she was at her peak in the 1950s; her acting career lasted more than 35 years, ending with the role of nurse Dixie McCall, RN, on the TV show Emergency! (1972–1979). Image File history File links Download high resolution version (297x675, 484 KB)Julie London This work is a copyrighted publicity photograph. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (297x675, 484 KB)Julie London This work is a copyrighted publicity photograph. ... is the 269th day of the year (270th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 291st day of the year (292nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Dixie McCall is a fictional character from the television series Emergency! (1972-1977). ... Emergency! was a popular crime drama/medical television series that was produced by Mark VII Limited (Jack Webbs company) and distributed by Universal Studios. ...

Biography

Born in Santa Rosa, California, as Gayle Peck, she was the daughter of Jack and Josephine Peck, who were a vaudeville song-and-dance team. When she was 14, the family moved to Los Angeles. Shortly after that, she began appearing in movies. She graduated from the Hollywood Professional High School in 1945. Location of Santa Rosa, California Country United States State California County Sonoma Mayor Jane Bender Area    - City 104. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Flag Seal Nickname: City of Angels Location Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates , Government State County California Los Angeles County Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 1,290. ...

She was married to Jack Webb of Dragnet fame. Her widely-regarded beauty and poise (she was a pinup girl prized by GIs during World War II) contrasted strongly with his pedestrian appearance and stiff-as-a-board acting technique (much parodied by impersonators). This unlikely pairing arose from his and her love for jazz music; their marriage lasted from July 1947 to November 1953.^[1] They had two daughters, one who was killed in a traffic accident in the 1990s and one who survived her. In 1954, having become somewhat reclusive after her divorce from Jack Webb, she met jazz composer and musician Bobby Troup at a club on La Brea Blvd.^[2] They married on December 31, 1959 and remained married until his death in February 1999. Together, they had one daughter and twin sons. John Randolph Jack Webb (April 2, 1920 – December 23, 1982) was an American actor, television producer, director, and writer who is most famous for his role as Sergeant Joe Friday in the radio and television series Dragnet. ... Dragnet opening frame from the 1967 version. ... A pin-up girl is a woman whose physical attractiveness would entice one to place a picture of her on a wall. ... The abbreviation G.I. or GI is most commonly used to shorten government issue, and has different meanings depending on the part of speech in which it is used. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Bobby Troup also spelled Bobby Troupe (October 18, 1918 - February 7, 1999) was an American actor, jazz pianist and songwriter. ... December 31 is the 365th day of the year (366th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

She suffered a stroke in 1995, and was in poor health until her death in Encino, California, at the age of 74, survived by four of her five children. Lake Balboa, an artificial lake in Encinos Balboa Park. ...

On her death in October 2000, Julie London was interred in Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles. Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery is located at 6300 Forest Lawn Drive in Los Angeles, California, on the south edge of the San Fernando Valley by Burbank (and on the north side of the Santa Monica Mountains from Hollywood). ...

Singing career

London began singing in public in her teens before appearing in a film. She was discovered by Sue Carol (wife of Alan Ladd) while London was working as an elevator operator. Her early film career did not include any singing roles. Sue Carol was born in 1908. ... Alan Walbridge Ladd (September 3, 1913 – November 7, 1964) was an American film actor. ...

She recorded 32 albums in a career that began in 1955 with a live performance at the 881 Club in Los Angeles.^[3] She was named by Billboard the most popular female vocalist for 1955, 1956, and 1957. In 1957, she was the subject of a Life cover article in which she was quoted as saying, "It's only a thimbleful of a voice, and I have to use it close to the microphone. But it is a kind of oversmoked voice, and it automatically sounds intimate." Nickname: Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates: , State California County Los Angeles County Settled 1781 Incorporated April 4, 1850 Government  - Type Mayor-Council  - Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa  - City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo  - Governing body City Council Area  - City  498. ... Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry. ... A cover of Life Magazine from 1911 Life has been the name of two notable magazines published in the United States. ...

One of her most famous singles "Cry Me a River", was actually written by her high school classmate Arthur Hamilton, and produced by her husband Troup^[4]. The song was featured in the 1956 film The Girl Can't Help It. This became a million-selling single after release in April 1957 and could still sell on re-issue in April 1983 on the back of attention brought by the Mari Wilson version of the song. The song has gained recent attention after being featured in the films Passion of Mind (2000) and V for Vendetta (2006). Other hit singles include "Makin' Whoopee", "Blue Moon", "It Had To Be You". Songs such as "Go Slow" epitomized her career style: her voice is slow, smoky, and sensual. The lyrics strongly suggest sex but never explicitly define it: Cry Me a River is a popular song. ... The Girl Cant Help It is a 1956 comedy, musical film, starring Tom Ewell, Edmund OBrien and Jayne Mansfield. ... See also: 1956 in music, other events of 1957, 1958 in music and the list of years in music // January 5 - Renato Carosone and his band start their American tour in Cuba. ... Mari Wilson (born Mari MacMillan Ramsey Wilson on 29 September 1957, in London) is a British singer, best known for her sometimes quirky, early 1960s influenced pop songs, and her (former) trademark beehive hairdo. ... V for Vendetta is a 2006 action-thriller film set in London, England in a near-future dystopian society. ... Makin Whoopee! is a popular song. ... The term blue moon has at least four related meanings. ... It Had to Be You could mean: It Had to Be You! (2005 film) It Had to Be You (television series) It Had to Be You (1989 film) It Had to Be You (2000 film) It Had to Be You (song) This is a disambiguation page—a list of articles...

Go slow, oooooh honey, take it easy on the curves;
When love is slow, oooooh honey, what a tonic for my nerves.
Go slow, oooooh honey, we've got such a lot of time;
When love is slow, oooooh honey, how the mercury does climb.

Her whispered "you make me feel so good" at the end is breathy and suggests a sexually satisfied partner, serving as later inspiration for Frank Sinatra's lyrically similar song. Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was a jazz oriented popular singer and Academy Award-winning actor. ...

The song "Yummy Yummy Yummy" was featured on the HBO series Six Feet Under, and appears on the series soundtrack album. Yummy Yummy Yummy is a song by Arthur Resnick and Joey Levine, first recorded by The Ohio Express in 1968. ... HBO (Home Box Office) is an American premium cable television network. ... Six Feet Under is an American television drama created by Alan Ball that was originally broadcast from 2001 to 2005. ...

Her last recording was the classic song "My Funny Valentine" for the soundtrack of the 1981 Burt Reynolds film Sharky's Machine.[1] My Funny Valentine is a song composed by Richard Rodgers to lyrics by Lorenz Hart and is now considered a jazz standard, appearing on over 1300 albums performed by over 600 artists. ... Born in 1924, William Diehl, was fifty years old and already a successful photographer and journalist when he decided he had not heeded his life calling – the day after his 50th birthday he began his first novel, Sharky’s Machine. Since then he has completed 8 more novels, including Primal...

Television

She appeared in several television programs, beginning with The Big Valley in 1967. In 1972, her ex-husband Jack Webb produced Emergency!, and he hired both his ex-wife and her new husband Bobby Troup to play key roles on the show. Even in middle age, London was the still-sensual bombshell nurse, and Troup played neurosurgeon Dr. Joe Early. She and her co-stars Kevin Tighe, Randolph Mantooth, and Robert Fuller also appeared in an episode of the Jack Webb series Adam-12, reprising their roles on the show that made them household names. London & Troup appeared together in the game show Tattletales in the 1970's. The Big Valley was a television Western which ran on ABC from 1965 through 1969. ... Emergency! was a popular crime drama/medical television series that was produced by Mark VII Limited (Jack Webbs company) and distributed by Universal Studios. ... Bobby Troup also spelled Bobby Troupe (October 18, 1918 - February 7, 1999) was an American actor, jazz pianist and songwriter. ... Insertion of an electrode during neurosurgery for Parkinsons disease. ... Kevin Tighe (born August 13, 1944 in Los Angeles) is an American actor best remembered for his role as Roy DeSoto on the TV series Emergency! from 1972 to 1979. ... Randolph Mantooth (born September 19, 1945) is an American character actor, best known for his work in the 1970s medical drama Emergency!, as paramedic John Gage, alongside Robert Fuller and Kevin Tighe, as well as his work on soap operas starting in the 1980s. ... Robert Fuller (born Robert Welch on May 14, 1951 in Dyersburg, Tennessee) is a professional wrestler and manager. ... Adam-12 was a television program which ran from 1968 until 1975 on police officers, of the Rampart Division , veteran Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) and rookie Jim Reed (Kent McCord), and their sergeant, played by William Boyett. ... Tattletales was a game show which first aired on the CBS daytime schedule on February 18, 1974. ...

Appearances

• The Big Valley (1967)
• The Helicopter Spies (1968)
• Emergency! (1972–1979) series regular
• Adam-12 (one episode, Lost and Found) as Dixie McCall
• Tattletales! (game show hosted by Bert Convy, 1974–1978)
• Emergency: Survival on Charter #220 (1978)
• Rawhide
• What's My Line?
• The Eleventh Hour

Emergency! was a popular crime drama/medical television series that was produced by Mark VII Limited (Jack Webbs company) and distributed by Universal Studios. ... Adam-12 was a television program which ran from 1968 until 1975 on police officers, of the Rampart Division , veteran Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) and rookie Jim Reed (Kent McCord), and their sergeant, played by William Boyett. ... Dixie McCall is a fictional character from the television series Emergency! (1972-1977). ... Bernard Whalen Bert Convy (July 23, 1933 – July 15, 1991) was an American game show host and panelist, actor and singer known for his tenure as the host for Tattletales, Super Password, and Win, Lose or Draw. ...

Albums

• Julie Is Her Name (1955, U.S. #2)
• Lonely Girl (1956, U.S. #16)
• Calendar Girl (1956, U.S. #18)
• About The Blues (1957, U.S. #15)
• Make Love To Me (1957)
• Julie (1958)
• Julie Is Her Name Volume 2 (1958)
• London By Night (1958)
• Swing Me An Old Song (1959)
• Your Number Please (1959)
• Julie At Home (1960)
• Around Midnight (1960)
• Send For Me (1961)
• Whatever Julie Wants (1961)
• Sophisticated Lady (1962)
• Love Letters (1962)
• Love On The Rocks (1962)
• Latin In A Satin Mood (1963)
• Julie's Golden Greats (1963)
• The End Of The World (1963, U.S. #127)
• The Wonderful World Of Julie London (1963, U.S. #136)
• Julie London (1964)
• In Person (1964)
• Our Fair Lady (1965)
• Feeling Good (1965)
• By Myself (1965, produced exclusively for the Columbia Record Club)
• All Through The Night (1965)
• For The Night People (1966)
• Nice Girls Don't Stay For Breakfast (1967)
• With Body & Soul (1967)
• Easy Does It (1968)
• Yummy, Yummy, Yummy (1969)
• The Very Best Of Julie London (1975)

Charted Recordings

• "Cry Me a River" (U.S. #2, 1955)
• "Makin' Whoopee" (U.S. #37, 1959)
• "Blue Moon" (South Africa #7, 1961)
• "Desafinado" (Slightly Out Of Tune)" (U.S. # 110, 1962)
• "I'm Coming Back To You" (U.S. # 118, 1963)
• "Yummy, Yummy, Yummy" (U.S. #125, 1968)
• "Like To Get To Know You" (Easy Listening #15, 1969)

Cry Me a River is a popular song. ... Makin Whoopee! is a popular song. ... Cover of sheet music for Blue Moon arranged by Jeff Funk, scored by SATB choir, and published by Alfred Publishing Co. ... Desafinado is a bossa nova song composed by Antonio Carlos Jobim with lyrics by Newton Mendonça. ... Yummy Yummy Yummy is a song by Arthur Resnick and Joey Levine, first recorded by The Ohio Express in 1968. ...

Films

• Nabonga (1944)
• Diamond Horseshoe (1945) (bit part)
• On Stage Everybody (1945)
• A Night in Paradise (1946) (bit part)
• The Red House (1947)
• Tap Roots (1948)
• Task Force (1949)
• Return of the Frontiersman (1950)
• The Fat Man (1951)
• The Fighting Chance (1955)
• The Girl Can't Help It (1956)
• Crime Against Joe (1956)
• The Great Man (1956)
• Drango (1957)
• Saddle the Wind (1958)
• Voice in the Mirror (1958)
• Man of the West (1958)
• Night of the Quarter Moon (1959)
• The Wonderful Country (1959)
• A Question of Adultery (1959)
• The Third Voice (1960)
• The George Raft Story (1961)

The Red House was a 1947 black-and-white film noir starring Edward G. Robinson // Plot A tale of suspense with Edward G. Robinson as a handicapped farmer Pete. ... Tap Roots is a 1948 period film set during the American Civil War, made by Walter Wanger Productions and Universal International Pictures. ... The Girl Cant Help It is a 1956 comedy, musical film, starring Tom Ewell, Edmund OBrien and Jayne Mansfield. ... The Great Man is a 1956 drama film directed by José Ferrer and based on a novel by Al Morgan. ... Man of the West is a 1958 western film directed by Anthony Mann in his last film of the genre. ...

References

1. ^ Staggs, Sam. (2003) Close-Up on Sunset Boulevard "St. Martin's Press" p. 289. ISBN 0-312-30254-1.
2. ^ Powell, D.A. (1998) Tea. "Wesleyan University Press" p. 70. ISBN 0-8195-6334-X.
3. ^ McKnight-Trontz, Jennifer (1999) Exotiquarium: Album Art from the Space Age "St. Martin's Press" p. 77. ISBN 0-312-20133-8.
4. ^ Cason, Buzz (2004) Living the Rock 'N' Roll Dream: The Adventures of Buzz Cason "Hal Leonard". p. 102. ISBN 0-634-06672-2.

• Martin, D. (2000). "Julie London, Sultry Singer and Actress of 50's, Dies at 74". New York Times, October 19, 2000. Retrieved April 22, 2005.
• Life, February 18, 1957.

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External links

• Julie London at the Internet Movie Database
• Julie London Biography, Discography & Photos
• http://www.thegoldenyears.org/london.html
• Voice in the Mirror: A Tribute to Julie London