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Julie Bishop

Julie Bishop

Birthday: 1914-08-30 | Place of Birth: Denver, Colorado, USA

From Wikipedia Julie Bishop (August 30, 1914 – August 30, 2001) was an American film and television actress. She appeared in over 80 films between 1923 and 1957. Bishop was born Jacqueline Wells and used her birth name professionally through 1941. She also appeared on stage (and in one film) as Diane Duval. She was a child actress, beginning her career in 1923. Early on, she appeared in several Laurel and Hardy films (Any Old Port! and The Bohemian Girl), and she settled on the name by which she is best remembered when offered a contract by Warner Bros. on the condition that she change her name, which was associated with her almost exclusively B-movie appearances through 1941 (amounting to nearly 50 films over 17 years). She chose the name because it matched the monograms on her luggage (she had for a time been married to Walter Booth Brooks III, a writer). She made 16 films at Warners, including a supporting role in 1943's Princess O'Rourke, supporting Olivia de Havilland and Robert Cummings. While filming, she met her second husband, Clarence Shoop, a pilot. She was Humphrey Bogart's leading lady in Action in the North Atlantic (1943), played Ira Gershwin's wife in the biopic Rhapsody in Blue (1945), and closed out her Warners years in 1946's Cinderella Jones. In 1949, Bishop played a down-on-her-luck wife and mother in the Sands of Iwo Jima, opposite John Wayne. She was among several former Wayne co-stars (including Laraine Day, Ann Doran, Jan Sterling, and Claire Trevor) who joined the actor in 1954's aviation drama, The High and the Mighty. Thrice married, Bishop had a son, Steve, a physician and pilot, and a daughter, actress Pamela Susan Shoop, both by her second marriage, Gen. Clarence A. Shoop, a test pilot who flew for Howard Hughes and later became vice president of Hughes Aircraft; they were married from 1944 until his death in 1968. Her first marriage ended in divorce and her third with her death. Julie Bishop died of pneumonia on her 87th birthday, August 30, 2001, in Mendocino, California.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1964
Tarzan the Fearless

as    Mary Brooks

1957
The Big Land

as    Kate Johnson

1953
Sabre Jet

as    Marge Hale

1951
Westward the Women

as    Laurie Smith

1950
Sands of Iwo Jima

as    Mary

1949
The Threat

as    Ann Williams

1947
High Tide

as    Julie Vaughn

1946
Cinderella Jones

as    Camille

1946
Murder in the Music Hall

as    Diane

1945
Rhapsody in Blue

as    Lee Gershwin

1945
You Came Along

as    Mrs. Taylor

1943
Northern Pursuit

as    Laura McBain

1943
Action in the North Atlantic

as    Pearl O'Neill

1942
Lady Gangster

as    Myrtle Reed

1942
Busses Roar

as    Reba Richards

1942
The Hidden Hand

as    Rita Channing

1942
I Was Framed

as    Ruth Marshall

1941
The Nurse's Secret

as    Florence Lentz

1941
Steel Against the Sky

as    Myrt

1941
Back in the Saddle

as    Taffy

1940
Her First Romance

as    Eileen Strong

1940
The Ranger and the Lady

as    Jane Tabor

1940
Young Bill Hickok

as    Louise Mason (as Jacqueline Wells)

1939
Torture Ship

as    Joan Martel

1939
My Son is Guilty

as    Julia Allen (as Jacqueline Wells)

1939
The Kansas Terrors

as    Maria del Montez

1939
My Son Is a Criminal

as    Myrna Kingsley (as Jacqueline Wells)

1938
Spring Madness

as    Mady Platt

1937
Counsel for Crime

as    Ann McIntyre (as Jacqueline Wells)