'Creature From the Black Lagoon' Star Julie Adams Dead at 92

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'Creature From the Black Lagoon' Star Julie Adams Dead at 92
By Greg Evans/ Fox News/ Entertainment/ foxnews.com

""Creature From the Black Lagoon" star Julie Adams, an actress who, like Fay Wray and Evelyn Ankers before her won the hearts of classic Hollywood monsters and then generations of devoted fans, died Sunday in Los Angeles. She was 92.

Adams’ death was confirmed on her official website.

Where Wray perched atop the Empire State Building with "King Kong" and Ankers ran through fog-shrouded forests pursued by "The Wolf Man," Adams secured her place in horror iconography underwater, notably an indelible scene in the 1954 "Creature" during which the actress, in a one-piece white bathing suit, swims atop the lagoon water as the creature known as the Gil-Man mimics her moves some feet below. The imagery would be echoed in countless films thereafter, memorably in both Jaws and 2017’s "The Shape of Water."

“I mourn Julie Adams passing,” tweeted del Toro today. “It hurts in a place deep in me, where monsters swim.”....."

American actors Ben Chapman (1928 - 2008) as Gill-man, and Julie Adams as Kay Lawrence, in "Creature From the Black Lagoon," directed by Jack Arnold, 1954. (Getty)


Richard

 

[clifffaith]

I watched the Creature from the Black Lagoon and Monster of Piedras Blancas any time they came on when I was a kid.

 

[DaveNV]

I was a kid when “monster movies” were big. Watched them all the time. I remember this movie well. I’m surprised when I hear that long-ago movie actors and stage performers are still alive. (Doris Day and Olivia de Haviland come to mind.)

Dave