Julie Newmar

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Julie Newmar is an American actress, dancer, and singer known for a variety of stage, screen, and television roles. She is also a writer, lingerie designer, and real estate mogul. She won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her role as Katrin Sveg in the 1958 Broadway production of The Marriage-Go-Round, and reprised the role in the 1961 film version, earning Newmar a nomination for a Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer - Actress. In the 1960s, she starred for two seasons as Catwoman in the television series Batman (1966–1967). Her other stage credits include Ziegfeld Follies in 1956, Lola in Damn Yankees in 1961, and in 1965, as Irma in regional productions of Irma la Douce.

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A female given name from French Julie, popular in the latter half of the 20th century, equivalent to English Julia.. Etymology: From Julie, julye, iulius, from julie, from jule, juil, from iūlius (Gaius Julius Caesar's month), perhaps a contraction of *Iovilios, "descended from Jove", from Latin Iuppiter, from - *dyeu-pəter-, from Proto-Indo-European *deyw-os, 'god', + *pəter, 'father'.

The name Julie is of French origin, meaning "A female given name from French Julie, popular in the latter half of the 20th century, equivalent to English Julia.. Etymology: From Julie, julye, iulius, from julie, from jule, juil, from iūlius (Gaius Julius Caesar's month), perhaps a contraction of *Iovilios, "descended from Jove", from Latin Iuppiter, from - *dyeu-pəter-, from Proto-Indo-European *deyw-os, 'god', + *pəter, 'father'.". It is traditionally a female name.

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