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and played roles in cheap westerns
for a little company called Lippert,
:20:03
each of them made in less than a week.
At that point she was using her real name,
:20:08
but at Universal she became
Julia Adams, and then Julie Adams,
:20:11
and she co-starred in almost
two dozen movies there in the '50s.
:20:14
A famous sculptor said she possessed
the most perfect legs in the world,
:20:18
so Universal claimed they
insured her legs for $500,000.
:20:21
That's an old publicity trick
that went back to the '40s -
:20:24
Betty Grable's legs were insured
for a million. It's used today -
:20:27
just the other day, Jennifer Lopez
insured her legs for 400 million.
:20:31
Anyway, she had these great legs, never
seen in the western movies she made.
:20:36
Universal gave her
the bathing-suit lead in Creature.
:20:38
It instantly became her claim to fame, the
movie she's now best remembered for,
:20:42
which is a "distinction"
that she takes with humour.
:20:45
More humour at some times than others,
perhaps, but she's always a good sport.
:20:49
She worked a lot in TV, including The
Jimmy Stewart Show, as Jimmy's wife,
:20:53
Yancy Derringer, and a recurring part
on Murder, She Wrote.
:20:56
She's still in front of the cameras today,
:20:58
most recently in the documentary about
Creature which is at the end of this movie.
:21:02
Adams made other sci-fi movies, like The
Underwater City, with William Lundigan,
:21:07
and Psychic Killer with Jim Hutton,
:21:09
directed by her former husband,
actor-director Ray Danton.
:21:12
She was in one of Elvis Presley's movies,
the haunted-house comedy Tickle Me.
:21:20
If you get confused when Richard Carlson
and Richard Denning go underwater,
:21:24
and can't tell which is which, notice
Carlson has two tanks on his back
:21:27
and Denning just one. They did that on
purpose so people could tell 'em apart.
:21:32
All the underwater scenes
were shot in Florida by a second unit
:21:35
that was working at the same time
Arnold was shooting at Universal.
:21:39
No actors could be there -
they were busy at Universal.
:21:42
So any time the camera is underwater,
those scenes were shot in Florida
:21:46
and none of the people you see
in those shots are the actual actors.
:21:49
They hired two college students
to double for Carlson and Denning:
:21:52
A girl named Ginger Stanley
doubled for Adams,
:21:55
and Ricou Browning, who I'll talk about
more later, played the gill-man.
:21:59
Today it's easy to overlook
what an accomplishment