Julie Bishop

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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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1964
Tarzan the Fearless
Movie Mary Brooks
1957
The Big Land
Movie Kate Johnson
1955
Headline Hunters
Movie Laura Stewart
1954
The High and the Mighty
Movie Lillian Pardee
1953
Sabre Jet
Movie Marge Hale
1952
My Hero
TV show Julie Marshall
1951
Westward the Women
Movie Laurie Smith
1951
Why Men Leave Home
Movie Ruth Waldron
1950
Sands of Iwo Jima
Movie Mary
1949
The Threat
Movie Ann Williams
1949
Deputy Marshal
Movie Claire Benton
1947
High Tide
Movie Julie Vaughn
1947
Last of the Redmen
Movie Cora Munro
1946
Murder in the Music Hall
Movie Diane
1946
Strange Conquest
Movie Virginia Sommers
1946
Cinderella Jones
Movie Camille

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1946
Idea Girl
Movie Pat O'Rourke
1945
You Came Along
Movie Mrs. Taylor
1945
Rhapsody in Blue
Movie Lee Gershwin
1944
Hollywood Canteen
Movie Junior Hostess (uncredited)
1943
Northern Pursuit
Movie Laura McBain
1943
Princess O'Rourke
Movie Stewardess (uncredited)
1943
Action in the North Atlantic
Movie Pearl O'Neill
1943
The Hard Way
Movie Chorine (Uncredited)
1942
The Hidden Hand
Movie Rita Channing
1942
Busses Roar
Movie Reba Richards
1942
Escape from Crime
Movie Molly O'Hara
1942
I Was Framed
Movie Ruth Marshall
1942
Lady Gangster
Movie Myrtle Reed
1942
Wild Bill Hickok Rides
Movie Violet
1941
Steel Against the Sky
Movie Myrt
1941
International Squadron
Movie Mary Wyatt
1941
The Nurse's Secret
Movie Florence Lentz
1941
Back in the Saddle
Movie Taffy
1940
Her First Romance
Movie Eileen Strong
1940
Young Bill Hickok
Movie Louise Mason (as Jacqueline Wells)
1940
The Ranger and the Lady
Movie Jane Tabor
1940
Girl in 313
Movie Lorna Hobart
1939
My Son Is Guilty
Movie Julia Allen (as Jacqueline Wells)
1939
The Amazing Mr. Williams
Movie Face of 7th Victim in Newspaper Photo (uncredited)