Juli Lynne Charlot
| Juli Lynne Charlot | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Shirley Ann Agin 26 October 1922 Bronx, New York, United States |
| Occupation | Fashion designer Singer Actress |
| Spouse(s) | Philip Charlot |
| Labels | Juli Lynne Charlot |
Juli Lynne Charlot (born October 26, 1922) is an American singer, actress and fashion designer. She is the creator of the poodle skirt.
Born Shirley Ann Agin on October 26, 1922 in the Bronx, New York, United States, Charlot began her singing career at an early age.
She moved to Los Angeles as a young girl and quickly found success as a singer, which was followed by acting roles in plays and movies.
She sang with Xavier Cugat’s orchestra and later with the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera Company.
Before long, she found herself in the company of the Marx Brothers, who asked Charlot to play a straight "man" in their Marx Brothers act while performing at military bases during World War II.Charlot invented the poodle skirt in 1947.
The attractive young woman found herself caught up in a whirlwind of offers from a great variety of acts and she begin traveling the world in the company of some of the greatest names in show business at the time.
Charlot appeared in the 1945 Broadway revival of Victor Herbert’s The Red Mill, along with Michael O'Shea, Eddie Foy Jr., Eddie Dew and Charles Collins (actor).
The Red Mill is an operetta written by Victor Herbert. It premiered first on Broadway on September 24, 1906 at the Knickerbocker Theatre (Broadway) and ran for 274 performances. It was revived on October 16, 1945, opening at the Ziegfeld Theatre, and running for 531 performances. The show also had a London run and toured extensively.
This led to a casting as a singer in Night in Paradise, a 1946 American film produced by Walter Wanger and directed by Arthur Lubin. The movie, produced by Universal Studios starred the beautiful Anglo-Indian star Merle Oberon, Gale Sondergaard, Turhan Bey, Thomas Gomez, Jerome Cowan, George Dolenz (the father of actor Micky Dolenz), John Litel, and many others.
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