Julie Bishop

Julie Bishop (born Jacqueline Brown; August 30, 1914 – August 30, 2001), previously known as Jacqueline Wells, was an American film and television actress. She appeared in more than 80 films between 1923 and 1957.

Early life Julie Bishop was born Jacqueline Brown in Denver, Colorado on August 30, 1914. She used the family name Wells professionally through 1941, and also appeared on stage (and in one film) as Diane Duval. She was a child actress, beginning her career in 1923, in either Children of Jazz or Maytime (sources are contradictory).

Career

By 1932, she was already a veteran film actress. Her earliest talkies were with the Hal Roach studio, where she worked in short-subject comedies with Laurel and Hardy, Charley Chase, and The 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 feature The Bohemian Girl won her a contract at Columbia Pictures, where she starred in a succession of minor features, mostly action fare. She left Columbia in 1939 and resumed her freelance career.

In 1941, she was offered a contract by Warner 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).

She made 16 films at Warners, including supporting roles in Action in the North Atlantic (1943) with Humphrey Bogart and Princess O'Rourke (1943), starring Olivia de Havilland and Robert Cummings. While filming the latter, she met her second husband, Clarence Shoop, a pilot. She was Errol Flynn's leading lady in Northern Pursuit (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.

She went on to work in television, notably opposite Bob Cummings in his situation comedies. She retired from acting in 1957.

Death Bishop died of pneumonia on her 87th birthday, August 30, 2001 in Mendocino, California. She is interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California in the same plot as her second husband, Clarence A. Shoop.

Selected filmography

Children of Jazz (1923) as Child Bluebeard's 8th Wife (1923) as Child Maytime (1923) as Little Girl Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall (1924) as Child Extra The Good Bad Boy (1924) as Child (uncredited) Captain Blood (1924) as Little Girl (uncredited) The Golden Bed (1925) as Flora as a Child (uncredited) The Homemaker (1925) as Helen Knapp Classified (1925) as Jeanette The Bar-C Mystery (1926) The Family Upstairs (1926) as Annabelle Heller Pardon Us (1931) Scareheads (1931) Any Old Port! (1932, Short) as Bride Heroes of the West (1932) as Ann Blaine Alice in Wonderland (1933) Clancy of the Mounted (1933) as Ann Laurie Tarzan the Fearless (1933) as Mary Brooks Tillie and Gus (1933) as Mary Sheridan Happy Landing (1934) The Black Cat (1934) as Joan Alison The Loudspeaker (1934) as Janet Melrose Kiss and Make-Up (1934) as Salon Client Happy Landing (1934) as Janet Curtis Square Shooter (1935) as Sally Wayne Coronado (1935) as Barbara Forrest Night Cargo (1936) as Claire Martineau, alias Marty The Bohemian Girl (1936 film) (1936) as Arline as an Adult The Frame-Up (1937) as Betty Lindale Girls Can Play (1937) as Ann Casey Counsel for Crime (1937) as Ann McIntyre She Married an Artist (1937) as Betty Dennis Paid to Dance (1937) as Joan Bradley Little Miss Roughneck (1938) as Mary LaRue When G-Men Step In (1938) as Marjory Drake Flight Into Nowhere (1938) as Joan Hammond The Main Event (1938) as Helen Phillips Highway Patrol (1938) as Jane Brady Flight to Fame (1938) as Barbara Fiske Spring Madness (1938) as Mady Platt The Little Adventuress (1938) as Helen Gould My Son Is a Criminal (1939) as Myrna Kingsley Behind Prison Gates (1939) as Sheila Murray Kansas Terrors (1939) as Maria del Montez Torture Ship (1939) as Joan Martel The Amazing Mr. Williams (1939) as Face of 7th Victim in Newspaper Photo (uncredited) My Son Is Guilty (1939) as Julia Allen Girl in 313 (1940) as Lorna Hobart The Ranger and the Lady (1940) as Jane Tabor Young Bill Hickok (1940) as Louise Mason Her First Romance (1940) as Eileen Strong Back in the Saddle (1941) as Taffy The Nurse's Secret (1941) as Florence Lentz International Squadron (1941) as Mary Wyatt Steel Against the Sky (1941) as Myrt Wild Bill Hickok Rides (1942) as Violet - Chorus Girl Lady Gangster (1942) as Myrtle Reed I Was Framed (1942) as Ruth Marshall (Scott) Escape from Crime (1942) as Molly O'Hara Busses Roar (1942) as Reba Richards The Hidden Hand (1942) as Rita Channing The Hard Way (1943) as Chorine (uncredited) Action in the North Atlantic (1943) as Pearl O'Neill Princess O'Rourke (1943) as Stewardess (uncredited) Northern Pursuit (1943) as Laura McBain Hollywood Canteen (1944) as Junior Hostess (uncredited) Rhapsody in Blue (1945) as Lee Gershwin You Came Along (1945) as Mrs. Taylor Idea Girl (1946) as Pat O'Rourke Cinderella Jones (1946) as Camille Murder in the Music Hall (1946) as Diane Strange Conquest (1946) as Virginia Sommers Last of the Redmen (1947) as Cora Munro High Tide (1947) as Julie Vaughn Deputy Marshall (1949) as Claire Benton The Threat (1949) as Ann Williams Sands of Iwo Jima (1949) as Mary Riders of the Range (1950) Secrets of Beauty (1951) as Ruth Waldron Westward the Women (1951) as Laurie Smith Sabre Jet (1953) as Mrs. Marge Hale The High and the Mighty (1954) as Lillian Pardee Headline Hunters (1955) as Laura Stewart The Big Land (1957) as Kate Johnson (final film role)

Television 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"