Jacqueline Wells appeared in the "Boy Friends" series. And she was in several Laurel and Hardy films, including THE BOHEMIAN GIRL, which was Thelma Todd's last movie.

Julie Bishop (actress)

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Julie Bishop

Born	Jacqueline Wells (1914-08-30)August 30, 1914 Denver, Colorado, U.S.
Died	August 30, 2001(2001-08-30) (aged 87) Mendocino, California, U.S.
Other names	Diane Duval
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1923–1957
Spouse(s)	William F. Bergin (1968-2001) (her death) Clarence A. Shoop (1944-1968) (his death) 2 children Walter Booth Brooks III (1936-1939) (divorced)
Children	Pamela Susan Shoop (b. 1948) Steve Shoop

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.

Life and career

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 B-movie 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 1943's Princess O'Rourke, supporting Olivia de Havilland and Robert Cummings. While filming, she met her second husband, Clarence Shoop, a pilot. She was Humphrey Bogart's leading lady in Action in the North Atlantic (1943), played Ira Gershwin's wife in the biopic Rhapsody in Blue (1945), and closed out her Warners years in 1946's Cinderella Jones.
In 1949, Bishop played a down-on-her-luck wife and mother in the Sands of Iwo Jima, opposite John Wayne. She was among several former Wayne co-stars (including Laraine Day, Ann Doran, Jan Sterling, and Claire Trevor) who joined the actor in 1954's aviation drama, The High and the Mighty.

Personal life

Thrice married, Julie Bishop had a son, 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.

Death

Julie Bishop died of pneumonia on her 87th birthday, August 30, 2001, in Mendocino, California.

Selected filmography

Bluebeard's 8th Wife (1923)
Maytime (1923)
Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall (1924)
Captain Blood (1924)
The Golden Bed (1925)
Any Old Port! (1932)
Heroes of the West (1932)
Tarzan the Fearless (1933)
The Black Cat (1934)
The Bohemian Girl (1936)
Counsel for Crime (1937)
Torture Ship (1939)
The Ranger and the Lady (1940)
Young Bill Hickok (1940)
The Nurse's Secret (1941)
Lady Gangster (1942)
Northern Pursuit (1943)
Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
Princess O'Rourke (1943)
Rhapsody in Blue (1945)
Cinderella Jones (1946)
Last of the Redmen (1947)
High Tide (1947)
Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)
Riders of the Range (1949)
Westward the Women (1951)
The High and the Mighty (1954)

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Julie Bishop (actress).

Biography portal

Julie Bishop at the Internet Movie Database
Julie Bishop at AllRovi
Julie Bishop at Find a Grave

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Although Jacqueline Wells was more famous as Julie Bishop, some of the movies that she made under her own name are considered classics today. She was in several Laurel and Hardy movies and was originally slated to be the heroine of WAY OUT WEST, but that part eventually went to Rosina Lawrence, who had dubbed her singing voice in THE BOHEMIAN GIRL.

As Julie Bishop, she appeared on several television programs in the 1950's. She was a regular on MY HERO with Bob Cummings, and would later appear on one episode of THE BOB CUMMINGS SHOW.

Her daughter Pamela Shoop is a well known actress today.

                                                         As "The Bohemian Girl"