Julie London Net Worth

Julie London's Quotes

• 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.

Interesting Facts about Julie London

1. Known in some circles as "The Liberty Girl" for helping establish Liberty Records 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".
2. Is portrayed by Julie Simone in Bettie Page: Dark Angel (2004).
3. Awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 7000 Hollywood Blvd.
4. Graduated from Hollywood Professional School, the same high school that other performers (including Peggy Ryan and Tommy Rall) attended, in 1944.
5. Was a celebrity spokesperson for Marlboro Cigarettes from the late 1950s to the early 1960s.
6. Best remembered by the public (as an actress) for her starring role as head nurse Dixie McCall on Emergency! (1972).
7. Met singer/songwriter and actor Bobby Troup just weeks after her divorce from Jack Webb. The two began a lifelong friendship and a real-life relationship, from 1954 until Troup's death in 1999. She remained cordial with Webb until his death in 1982. She was eight years Troup's junior.
8. At age 17, she tried out for a band but went back to working as an elevator operator. One of her passengers was talent agent Sue Carol, who was the wife of Alan Ladd.
9. She took the role of head nurse Dixie McCall on television's Emergency! (1972) after many of the jazz spots and lounges in which she had performed had closed due to changing public tastes in the 1970s.
10. Her most popular song, "Cry Me a River", was written by her former classmate/boyfriend Arthur Hamilton and produced by Bobby Troup.
11. She and Bobby Troup had both been good friends with Robert Fuller, for many years, before he co-starred with them on Emergency! (1972).
12. Future game show host Alex Trebek, actors Randolph Mantooth, David Cassidy, Lorenzo Lamas, Michael Damian, comedians Howie Mandel, Graham Elwood news journalist Joan Lunden and future singer of Wilson Phillips Chynna Phillips, all said London was their childhood music/television heroine.
13. When Emergency! (1972) was canceled at the end of its seventh season, when she was 52, she retired from both acting and singing.
14. She had 16 hobbies: cooking, spending time with family, singing, partying, traveling, knitting, dining, listening to music, reading, working on crossword puzzles, swimming, interior decorating, playing games, sports, golfing and gambling.
15. Remained good friends with Randolph Mantooth during and after Emergency! (1972). He was also good friends to all of her children.
16. When she was getting a divorce from Jack Webb, she agreed, then went to court. The judge granted the divorce and approved the property settlement agreement, under which Webb had paid his wife $150,000 in cash, gave her $150,000 in securities of his production company, $21,000 a year for herself and for the couple's two children, Stacy and Lisa. Webb also agreed to take out a $150,000 insurance policy to guarantee alimony payments in case of his death. In addition, she got a new Cadillac, jewelry and furnishings. [26 November 1953].
17. London died on October 18, 2000, on what would have been her husband (Bobby Troup)'s 82nd birthday. She was cremated and shares a niche in a columbarium with Troup, at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills. After their deaths, the couple's Encino home was sold for close to its last asking price of $1.9 million. The Colonial-style home was designed for London in 1959 by the late architect Paul Williams, who incorporated four 19th-century marble fireplaces into the design. London had purchased the fireplaces in France.
18. She began smoking in 1942, aged 15 or 16, and continued until 1995, when she suffered a debilitating stroke. In her biography, "Go Slow", she noted that the years of smoking and drinking had taken their toll. She remained in ill health. She was the only Emergency! (1972) lead actor not to attend the cast reunion in Burbank, California, in 1998, due to her failing health. At the funeral of her second husband (and former Emergency! (1972) co-star), Bobby Troup, on 22 February 1999, her poor health prevented her from speaking. The last few years of her life were plagued by accidents and ill health. Even before her stroke, she had several accidents, resulting in her breaking her hips. She spent most of her time in a wheelchair. She died on October 18, 2000, aged 74, having directed that no funeral or memorial service be held.
19. Began singing at age 3, and was later raised in San Bernardino, California, where her parents sang on local radio.
20. Prior to her marriage to Bobby Troup, he helped her sign to Liberty Records. He later also signed with Liberty.