Julie Bishop | |
|---|---|
 Bishop in 1944 | |
| Born | Jacqueline Brown[1] (1914-08-30)August 30, 1914[2] |
| Died | August 30, 2001(2001-08-30) (aged 87) Mendocino, California, U.S. |
| Resting place | Forest Lawn Memorial Park,Glendale, California |
| Other names | Diane Duval, Jacqueline Wells |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1923–1957 |
| Known for | |
| Spouses | |
| Children | 2, includingPamela Susan Shoop |
Julie Bishop (bornJacqueline Brown; August 30, 1914 – August 30, 2001), previously known asJacqueline Wells, was an American film and television actress. She appeared in more than 80 films between 1923 and 1957.
Julie Bishop was born Jacqueline Brown in Denver, Colorado[3] on August 30, 1914. She used the family name Wells professionally through 1941, and also appeared on stage (and in one film) asDiane Duval. She was a child actress, beginning her career in 1923, in eitherChildren of Jazz orMaytime (sources are contradictory).[4]
.png)
By 1932, she was already a veteran film actress. Her earliest talkies were with theHal Roach studio, where she worked in short-subject comedies withLaurel and Hardy,Charley Chase, andThe Boy Friends. Then she began freelancing, working in supporting roles at large studios and in leading roles at small studios. Her ingenue role in the 1936 Laurel and Hardy featureThe Bohemian Girl won her a contract atColumbia Pictures, where she starred in a succession of minor features, mostly action fare. She left Columbia in 1939 and resumed her freelance career.[citation needed]
.png)
In 1941, she was offered a contract byWarner Bros. on the condition that she change her name; "Jacqueline Wells" was considered a faded, B-picture name. She chose the name Julie Bishop because it matched the monograms on her luggage (created when her married name was Jacqueline Brooks).[citation needed]
She made 16 films at Warners, including supporting roles inAction in the North Atlantic (1943) withHumphrey Bogart andPrincess O'Rourke (1943), starringOlivia de Havilland andRobert Cummings. While filming the latter, she met her second husband,Clarence Shoop, a pilot. She wasErrol Flynn's leading lady inNorthern Pursuit (1943), playedIra Gershwin's wife in thebiopicRhapsody in Blue (1945), and closed out her Warners years in 1946'sCinderella Jones.
In 1949, Bishop played a down-on-her-luck wife and mother in theSands of Iwo Jima, oppositeJohn Wayne. She was among several former Wayne co-stars (includingLaraine Day,Ann Doran,Jan Sterling, andClaire Trevor) who joined the actor in 1954's aviation drama,The High and the Mighty.
She went on to work in television, notably oppositeBob Cummings in his situation comedies. She retired from acting in 1957.
Bishop was aRepublican and campaigned forDwight Eisenhower in the1952 presidential election.[5]
She was also anEpiscopalian.[6]
Bishop died of pneumonia on her 87th birthday, August 30, 2001 in Mendocino, California.[7] She is interred atForest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California in the same plot as her second husband, Clarence A. Shoop.[8]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1952-1953 | My Hero | Julie Marshall | 32 episodes |
| 1954 | Fireside Theatre | Irene Adams | Episode: "Juror on Trial" |
| 1955 | TV Reader's Digest | Agnes | Episode: "A Million Dollar Story" |
| 1956 | Warner Bros. Presents | Episode: "Survival" | |
| The Bob Cummings Show | Sergeant Helen Brewster | Episode: "The Sergeant Wore Skirts" | |
| Ethel Barrymore Theatre | Episode: "The Victim" |
