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Rest In Peace, Julie Adams

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Julie Adams and Ben Chapman in the horror classic Creature From the Black Lagoon, 1954

Actress Julie Adams (b. Betty May Adams, Oct. 17, 1926) passed away Sunday, February 3, 2019, in Los Angeles, at the age of 92.

After being crowned Miss Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1946, she moved to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career.

Ms. Adams started working in movies in 1949. Eventually, she appeared in over 50 films with some of Hollywood’s greatest stars including Charlton Heston, Glenn Ford, Rock Hudson, Tony Curtis, and Elvis Presley.

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“Nobody knows anything.”
—William Goldman, Adventures in the Screen Trade

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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Not long before she died in 1981 at age 57, Gloria Grahame, who had acted in films signed by Frank Capra, Nicholas Ray, Josef von Sternberg, Vincente Minnelli, Elia Kazan, Fritz Lang, and Fred Zinnemann, demolished them all in one sweeping statement. “Those men never directed me,” she told an English stage director with whom she was currently working. “I’d go home and work on it with my mother, then come in and shoot it, and that would be that.”
—Donald Chase, “Gloria Grahame In Praise of the Naughty Mind,” Film Comment, 1997

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it’s not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people’s eyes.”
—John Ford

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