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Julie Bishop

Julie Bishop

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.

Tarzan the Fearless

1964

as Mary Brooks

The Big Land

1957

as Kate Johnson

Headline Hunters

1955

as Laura Stewart

The High and the Mighty

1954

as Lillian Pardee

Sabre Jet

1953

as Marge Hale

My Hero

1952

Westward the Women

1951

as Laurie Smith

Why Men Leave Home

1951

as Ruth Waldron

Sands of Iwo Jima

1950

as Mary

The Threat

1949

as Ann Williams

Deputy Marshal

1949

as Claire Benton

High Tide

1947

as Julie Vaughn

Last of the Redmen

1947

as Cora Munro

Murder in the Music Hall

1946

as Diane

Strange Conquest

1946

as Virginia Sommers

Cinderella Jones

1946

as Camille

Idea Girl

1946

as Pat O'Rourke

You Came Along

1945

as Mrs. Taylor

Rhapsody in Blue

1945

as Lee Gershwin

Hollywood Canteen

1944

as Junior Hostess (uncredited)

Northern Pursuit

1943

as Laura McBain

Princess O'Rourke

1943

as Stewardess (uncredited)

Action in the North Atlantic

1943

as Pearl O'Neill

The Hard Way

1943

as Chorine (Uncredited)

The Hidden Hand

1942

as Rita Channing

Busses Roar

1942

as Reba Richards

Escape from Crime

1942

as Molly O'Hara

I Was Framed

1942

as Ruth Marshall

Lady Gangster

1942

as Myrtle Reed

Wild Bill Hickok Rides

1942

as Violet

Steel Against the Sky

1941

as Myrt

International Squadron

1941

as Mary Wyatt

The Nurse's Secret

1941

as Florence Lentz

Back in the Saddle

1941

as Taffy

Her First Romance

1940

as Eileen Strong

Young Bill Hickok

1940

as Louise Mason (as Jacqueline Wells)

The Ranger and the Lady

1940

as Jane Tabor

Girl in 313

1940

as Lorna Hobart

My Son Is Guilty

1939

as Julia Allen (as Jacqueline Wells)

The Amazing Mr. Williams

1939

as Face of 7th Victim in Newspaper Photo (uncredited)

Torture Ship

1939

as Joan Martel

The Kansas Terrors

1939

as Maria del Montez

Behind Prison Gates

1939

as Sheila Murray (as Jacqueline Wells)

My Son Is a Criminal

1939

as Myrna Kingsley (as Jacqueline Wells)

Spring Madness

1938

as Mady Platt

Flight to Fame

1938

as Barbara Fiske

Highway Patrol

1938

as Jane Brady (as Jacqueline Wells)

The Main Event

1938

as Helen Phillips

Flight Into Nowhere

1938

as Joan Hammond

When G-Men Step In

1938

as Marjory Drake (as Jacqueline Wells)

Little Miss Roughneck

1938

as Mary LaRue (as Jacqueline Wells)

Paid to Dance

1937

as Joan Bradley

She Married an Artist

1937

as Betty Dennis

Counsel for Crime

1937

as Ann McIntyre (as Jacqueline Wells)

Girls Can Play

1937

as Ann Casey

The Frame-Up

1937

as Betty Lindale (as Jacqueline Wells)

The Bohemian Girl

1936

as Arline as an Adult

Night Cargo

1936

as Claire Martineau, alias Marty

Coronado

1935

as Barbara Forrest (as Jacqueline Wells)

Square Shooter

1935

as Sally Wayne

Happy Landing

1934

as Janet Curtis

The Loudspeaker

1934

as Janet Melrose (as Jacqueline Wells)

The Black Cat

1934

as Joan Alison

Tillie and Gus

1933

as Mary Sheridan (as Jacqueline Wells)

Tarzan the Fearless

1933

as Mary Brooks

Heroes of the West

1932

as Ann Blaine

In Walked Charley

1932

as Jackie

You're Telling Me

1932

as Jackie

Any Old Port!

1932

as Bride

The Knockout

1932

as Jackie (as Jacqueline Wells)

Skip the Maloo!

1931

as Miss Benson

The Family Upstairs

1926

as Annabelle Heller (as Jaqueline Wells)

The Home Maker

1925

as Helen Knapp

Classified

1925

as Jeanette

Captain Blood

1924

as Little Girl

The Good Bad Boy

1924

as Child (uncredited)

Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall

1924

as Child Extra (as Jacqueline Wells)

Maytime

1923

as Little Girl

Bluebeard's 8th Wife

1923

as Child (as Jacqueline Wells)