Biografia

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.

One day after her 70th birthday, Julie's daughter, Stacy Webb, was involved in an automobile accident at an intersection near her house. Her daughter's truck had overturned with a California Highway Patrol car. She died an hour later, at a local hospital. [27 September 1996].

Had often kept quiet about her divorce from Jack Webb despite being friends with him.

Her second husband and ex-Emergency! (1972) co-star, Bobby Troup, who had been diagnosed with pneumonia, was complaining of breathing problems, when he was rushed to Sherman Oaks Hospital. 5 days later, he died of a heart attack. [7 February 1999].

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.

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.