Tall, leggy and dimpled, Newmar has been a performer of stage, screen and TV who has been saved from bimbo status by her intelligent, sardonic persona. The daughter of a football coach and a Ziegfeld Follies girl, Newmar was a staff choreographer for Universal by the age of 18 and made her film debut in the 1952 Bing Crosby musical "Just for You" (she can also be spotted in "The Band Wagon," 1953). Billed as Julie Newmeyer, she made her full-fledged feature acting debut as one of the "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" (1954). Her career then switched to the East Coast where, now billed as Julie
