Julie Bishop

From Wikipedia Julie Bishop August 30 1914 August 30 2001 was an American film and television actress She appeared in over 80 films between 1923 and 1957 Bishop was born Jacqueline Wells and used her birth name professionally through 1941 She also appeared on stage and in one film as Diane Duval She was a child actress beginning her career in 1923 Early on she appeared in several Laurel and Hardy films Any Old Port and The Bohemian Girl and she settled on the name by which she is best remembered when offered a contract by Warner Bros on the condition that she change her name which was associated with her almost exclusively Bmovie appearances through 1941 amounting to nearly 50 films over 17 years She chose the name because it matched the monograms on her luggage she had for a time been married to Walter Booth Brooks III a writer She made 16 films at Warners including a supporting role in 1943s Princess ORourke supporting Olivia de Havilland and Robert Cummings While filming she met her second husband Clarence Shoop a pilot She was Humphrey Bogarts leading lady in Action in the North Atlantic 1943 played Ira Gershwins wife in the biopic Rhapsody in Blue 1945 and closed out her Warners years in 1946s Cinderella Jones In 1949 Bishop played a downonherluck wife and mother in the Sands of Iwo Jima opposite John Wayne She was among several former Wayne costars including Laraine Day Ann Doran Jan Sterling and Claire Trevor who joined the actor in 1954s aviation drama The High and the Mighty Thrice married Bishop had a son Steve a physician and pilot and a daughter actress Pamela Susan Shoop both by her second marriage Gen Clarence A Shoop a test pilot who flew for Howard Hughes and later became vice president of Hughes Aircraft they were married from 1944 until his death in 1968 Her first marriage ended in divorce and her third with her death Julie Bishop died of pneumonia on her 87th birthday August 30 2001 in Mendocino California