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Julie Gibson

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Julie Gibson

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  • At the time of her death she was the oldest living actor who worked with The Three Stooges.
  • Former contract player at Paramount. At one time ran an acting studio with Agnes Moorehead; two of their students were Sidney Poitier and Maya Angelou.
  • Dissatisfied with the roles she was getting, she broke her contract with Paramount and went to Paris where she became a press representative for Fox.
  • Began her career as a singer and dancer in vaudeville. Subsequently worked as a band singer for Eddy Duchin and Jimmie Grier.
  • In the '60s and early '70s worked as dialect adviser and dialogue coach.
  • Voted "Sweater Girl of 1954".
  • Gibson died in her sleep in North Hollywood, Los Angeles on October 2, 2019, aged 106.
  • On 12/5/81 her third husband, of eight years, Charles Barton died from a heart attack at the age of 79.
  • She was an American singer and radio, television and film actress who had a career in movies during the 1940s.
  • Gibson, who retired from the industry in 1984, was known for her work opposite The Three Stooges.
  • She also went to Europe and supplied English voices for foreign stars in Italian and French films.
  • Dissatisfied with the roles she was getting, Gibson broke her contract with Paramount and departed for Paris, where she replaced Faye Emerson in a filmed weekly series, Paris Cavalcade of Fashions, for U.S. movie chains. In the French capital, Gibson became a press representative for Fox and was assigned to the Huston films Moulin Rouge (1952) and Beat the Devil (1953).
  • Gibson also dubbed vocals for Betty Hutton and Diana Lynn in some films.
  • Married bandleader Jimmie Grier in Tucson, Arizona.
  • In the 1960s, she served as a Dialogue Supervisor on two dozen episodes of the television sitcom Family Affair (1966). She also worked as an accent coach to help actors in films to speak appropriately for their characters' backgrounds.
  • She has appeared in two films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: Going My Way (1944) & Hail the Conquering Hero (1944).
  • She made her first film appearances in small roles in the films Nice Girl? and The Feminine Touch (both 1941).
  • She and her older sister Rea entertained local dramatics and music communities, with Julie singing and her sister playing harmony ukulele, before starting a stage act known as "Camille Soray and Her Girlfriends" that played The Granada Theatre.[.
  • In the 1950s, Gibson's career was relegated mostly to mid-sized to smaller supporting roles in films and on television.
  • She graduated from Lewiston High School.
  • Her first featured role was in the 1944 film Lucky Cowboy. This was followed by a series of starring roles in such films as Chick Carter, Detective, Bowery Buckaroos, and Are You with It.
  • Gibson, after performing at the Victor Club in Portland, joined Bob Young's orchestra as a soloist in 1935 performing for radio station KSL in Salt Lake City and, after winning a talent quest, joined Eddy Duchin's Orchestra paying to syndicated broadcasts from Los Angeles.
  • She gained notice singing with the Jimmie Grier orchestra in 1937. The same year, she joined the cast of Joe Penner's radio program.
  • Burial Details Unknown.

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