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Julie Newmar (born August 16, 1933) is an American actress, dancer and singer, known for a variety of stage, screen, and television roles. She won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her role as Katrin Sveg in the 1958 Broadway production of ''The Marriage-Go-Round'', and reprised the role in the 1961 film version. In the 1960s, she starred for two seasons as Catwoman in the television series ''Batman'' (1966–67). Newmar began her career as a dancer in films including ''The Band Wagon'' (1953), ''Demetrius and the Gladiators'' (1954), and as Dorcas in ''Seven Brides for Seven Brothers'' (1954), before making her Broadway debut playing Vera in the 1955 musical ''Silk Stockings''. Her other stage credits include the Ziegfeld Follies in 1956, and playing Lola in ''Damn Yankees!'' (1961) and Irma in ''Irma la Douce'' (1965) in regional productions. She appeared in the music video for George Michael's 1992 single "Too Funky", and had a cameo as herself in the 1995 film ''To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar''. ==Early life== She was born in Los Angeles as Julia Chalene Newmeyer, the eldest of three children born to Don and Helen (Jesmer) Newmeyer. Her German-American father was head of the Physical Education Department at Los Angeles City College and had played American football professionally in the 1920s with the Los Angeles Buccaneers of the first American Football League. Her Swedish-French mother was a fashion designer who used Chalene as her professional name and later became a real-estate investor.〔 (Profile ), people.com; accessed March 4, 2015.〕 Newmar began her career as a dancer, training with Denishawn and later appearing in the Ziegfeld Follies; Eddie Cantor said she had "the most beautiful legs in the Follies".〔"In the 'Harem Life' Number at the Follies'", ''Town and Country'', October 1, 1919.〕〔''Jazz Age Beauties: the Lost Collection of Ziegfeld Photographer Alfred Cheney Johnston'' (Universe, 2006)〕 Newmar has two younger brothers, Peter Bruce Newmeyer (born 1935)〔1940 United States Federal Census for Los Angeles County, California, accessed on ancestry.com on 26 January 2013〕 and John A. Newmeyer (born 1940), a writer, epidemiologist, and winemaker.〔(Newmeyer family genealogy site ), newmeyer.com; accessed October 10, 2014.〕〔Chris Strodder, ''Swingin' Chicks of the '60s'' (Cedco, 2000), p. 171〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Julie Newmar」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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