Julie London
Julie London -born Julie Peck, (born 26 September 1926 in Santa Rosa, California, † 18 October 2000 in Encino, California ) was an American actress and singer. Her most famous hit was Cry Me a River from the year 1957.
Life
Julie London was the daughter of vaudeville song and dance couple Jack and Josephine Peck. 1940 the family moved to Los Angeles where she graduated in 1945, the Hollywood Professional School, but previously as a singer ( with the orchestra of Matty Malneck ) and appeared in films - first in 1944 in the Camp movie Nabonga, in which there is in a jungle crashed girl goes, which is sponsored by a gorilla. During the Second World War, she was a popular pin -up girl.
From July 1947 to November 1953 she was married to actor Jack Webb, with whom she shared a love of jazz music and had two daughters. From 1959 she was with the jazz composers, songwriters (including Route 66 ) and jazz pianist Bobby Troup ( 1918-1999 ) married until his death in February 1999. With him she had a daughter and two twin sons.
As a singer, she recorded 32 albums, first in 1955 Julie Is Her Name. With her smoky, not very supporting, but intimate voice - in an interview in Life Magazine in 1957, in which she had a cover article, she commented on her voice as: " It's only a thimbleful of a voice, and I have to use it close to the microphone. But it is a kind of over smoked voice, and it Automatically sounds intimate. "- It was in the 1950s one of the most popular singers (1955, 1956, 1957 chosen by Billboard Magazine in this category at the top ). She had with Cry Me a River ( written by her high school classmates Arthur Hamilton) in April 1957 a Millionenhit. She had previously sung the title in 1956 in the film The Girl Can not Help It ( directed by Frank Tashlin, with Jayne Mansfield), in which she played herself. Other hits she had with Makin ' Whoopie, Blue Moon and It Had to Be You. She took plates up in the 1970s, her last recording in 1981 was My Funny Valentine for the Burt Reynolds film Sharky's Machine. The in 1953 Julie London Vaya Con Dios song acted as donor names for the Belgian band Vaya Con Dios.
As an actress, she appeared in over 20 feature films, including Storm Over the Pacific (1949 ) with Gary Cooper and The Man of the West (1958 ) is also on the side of Cooper. She also starred in many television productions, such as 1972-1979 in the produced by her ex- husband Jack Webb hospital series emergency as a nurse Dixie McCall California (her husband Bobby Troup played there with also, as Dr. Joe Early ). In 1974 she was nominated for her role in the series for the Golden Globe.
Julie London never quite recovered from a stroke suffered in 1995, died in 2000 and is located at Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles buried. She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame since 1960.
Discography (selection)
- Julie Is Her Name ( Liberty, 1955)
- Calendar Girl ( Liberty, 1956)
- Lonely Girl ( Liberty, 1956)
- Make Love with Me ( Liberty, 1957)
- Send for Me ( Liberty, 1960)
- All Through the Night ( Liberty, 1965)
- Feeling Good ( Liberty, 1965)