- Born
- Died
- Birth nameJulie Peck
- Nickname
- The Liberty Girl
- Height5′ 2″ (1.57 m)
- Julie London recorded 32 albums during her career. Forced to give up band singing when her true age was discovered, she was primarily a torch singer. Her vocal range was described by "sultry" and "low-keyed". Her own favorite singers were Barbra Streisand and Roberta Flack.
She was known in some circles as "The Liberty Girl" for helping establish Liberty Records, where she began singing in 1955, as a successful label. Her many hit albums on that label include "Julie Is Her Name", "Calendar Girl" with some borderline erotic (for the time) cover photography by Gene Lester, "About the Blues", "Your Number, Please", "Send For Me", "Love Letters", "The End of the World", "In Person at the Americana", "The Wonderful World of Julie London" and the provocatively titled "Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast".
Her most popular song, "Cry Me a River", was written by her former classmate/boyfriend Arthur Hamilton and produced by Bobby Troup. Her four most-sought-after and successful albums are "About the Blues (1957), "Feeling Good" (1965), "Easy Does It" (1968) and "Yummy, Yummy, Yummy" (1969). (Her version of "Yummy Yummy Yummy" was featured on the HBO television series Six Feet Under (2001).) Billboard Magazine named her the most popular female vocalist for 1955, 1956 and 1957".
- IMDb mini biography by: Robert Sieger
- SpousesBobby Troup(December 31, 1959 - February 7, 1999) (his death, 3 children)Jack Webb(July 16, 1947 - December 2, 1954) (divorced, 2 children)
- Children
- ParentsJack PeckJosephine Peck
- Frequently played characters with a sexy, seductive personality
- Her youthful appearance.
- Husky resonant voice.
- Sandy blonde hair
- Languid demeanor
- She was so shocked, when she was asked to do Emergency! (1972). She was also Jack Webb's first choice for the female lead role as Nurse Dixie McCall, R.N. (despite the fact that they were previously married and then divorced). She was happy to take the role, alongside her real-life husband, Bobby Troup, as Dr. Joe Early.
- Had often kept quiet about her divorce from Jack Webb despite being friends with him.
- Her agent legally changed her name, from Julie Peck to Julie London, at age 17, in 1943, when she was a senior in high school. Right at the same time, she embarked on her own acting career.
- She was cremated and interred next to Bobby Troup in the Courts of Remembrance Columbarium of Providence at Forest Lawn-Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles, California.
- Billboard Magazine named her the most popular female vocalist for 1955, 1956, and 1957.
- I'm the world's worst. I dislike women in large groups, and as individuals.
- Women should be women, who wants them to be asexual? Not your old buddy.
- [on her singing voice]: 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.
- [In 1963]: We're opposite types. Marilyn [Monroe] was the sex symbol... I'm strictly the housewife-mother type.
- [In 1961]: Just as long as they buy the records, I don't care why they buy 'em, we spent more time on the covers than the music.
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