TV Guide - December 12 - 18, 1964
Julie Newmar (born Julia Chalene Newmeyer, August 16, 1933) is an American actress, dancer, and singer, known for a variety of stage, screen, and television roles.
Newmar’s fame stems mainly from her television appearances. Her statuesque form and height made her a larger-than-life sex symbol, most often cast as a temptress or Amazonian beauty, including an early appearance in sexy maid costume on The Phil Silvers Show. She starred as Rhoda the Robot on the television series My Living Doll (1964–1965), and is known for her recurring role on the 1960s television series Batman as the villainess Catwoman. (Lee Meriwether played Catwoman in the 1966 feature film and Eartha Kitt in the series’ final season.) Newmar modified her Catwoman costume—now in the Smithsonian Institution—and placed the belt at the hips instead of the waist to emphasize her hourglass figure.
In 1962, Newmar appeared twice as the motorcycle-riding, free-spirited heiress Vicki Russell on Route 66, filmed in Tucson (“How Much a Pound Is Albatross”) and in Tennessee (“Give the Old Cat a Tender Mouse”). She guest-starred on The Twilight Zone as the devil in “Of Late I Think of Cliffordville”, F Troop (“Yellow Bird” in 1966) as a girl kidnapped as a child and raised by Native Americans, Bewitched (“The Eight-Year Itch Witch” in 1971) as a cat named Ophelia given human form, The Beverly Hillbillies as a Swedish actress who stays with the Clampetts to learn their accents and mannerisms for a role, and Get Smart as a double agent assigned to Maxwell Smart’s apartment posing as a maid. In 1967, she guest-starred as April Conquest in an episode of The Monkees (“Monkees Get Out More Dirt”, season 1, episode 29), in which the main characters all fall in love with her, and was the pregnant Capellan princess, Eleen, in the Star Trek episode “Friday’s Child”. In 1969, she played a hit woman in the It Takes a Thief episode “The Funeral is on Mundy” with Robert Wagner. In 1983, she reprised the hit-woman role on Hart to Hart, Wagner’s later television series, in the episode “A Change of Hart”. In the 1970s, she had guest roles on Columbo and The Bionic Woman.
Newmar appeared in several low-budget films during the next two decades. She guest-starred on TV, appearing on The Love Boat, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, CHiPs, and Fantasy Island. She was seen in the music video for George Michael’s “Too Funky” in 1992, and appeared as herself in a 1996 episode of Melrose Place. (Wikipedia)
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