Atmospheric horror classic, very loosely based on Edgar Allan Poe’s tale, The Black Cat – starring Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi as old friends who become bitter enemies when one decides to sacrifice the other’s travel companion in a Satanic ritual – descended into madness on May 7, 1934.
Julie Bishop as Laurie Smith and Denice Darcel with a rifle in Westward the Women (1951). Julie was born in Denver and had 93 acting credits, from three 1923 credits as Jacqueline Wells, her given name, to 1957. Her other notable credits include Tarzan the Fearless (1933), Tillie and Gus, The Black Cat, her first credit as Julie Bishop (1941), Action in the North Atlantic, Northern Pursuit, Rhapsody in Blue, Sands of Iwo Jima, and The High and the Mighty.
Robert Taylor leads six of the women westward from Chicago to California in Westward the Women (1951), including Denice Darcel, Hope Emerson, Julie Bishop. Lenore Lonergan, Marilyn Erskine, and Beverly Dennis.
Lenore had seven acting credits, Marilyn had 46 through a 1972 episode of Ironside, and Beverly had nine.
