Julia Bruns

Julia Bruns
Bruns in Beware of Dogs
Born	Julia Eliza Bruns 1895 St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
Died	December 24, 1927 (aged 32) New York City, New York, U.S.
Cause of death	Alcohol poisoning
Occupation	Actress, model
Years active	1913–1921

Julia Eliza Bruns (1895 – December 24, 1927) was an American stage and silent film actress and model. Bruns came to prominence for her work as a model. Her image was illustrated by artist James Montgomery Flagg in 1917. She appeared on numerous magazine covers and Sunday feature pages.

Once called "America's most beautiful girl", she eventually succumbed to alcoholism and drug addiction and died at age 32.

Her first acting role was in 1913 in the play The American Maid, written by John Philip Sousa, followed by a part in Help Wanted by Oliver Morosco. For a number of years she appeared on stage in the United States and Europe.

Bruns was a passenger in a Baldwin Red Devil flown by Tony Jannus, a contestant in a New York Times derby, on October 12, 1913. The plane ascended nearly 4,000 feet and flew for twenty minutes above the air at Oakwood Heights, Staten Island.

In November 1916, she was among the players in the Willard Mack theatrical drama Her Market Value. It was produced at the Olympic Theatre in Chicago, Illinois. The play had a cast of fifty. Bruns appeared in the comedy, The Squab Farm (1918). The play was staged at the Bijou Theatre on Broadway, and it was Tallulah Bankhead's first stage role. When Bankhead was rebuked for whistling in the communal dressing room, unknowingly breaking one of the theater's oldest superstitions, Bruns took pity on her and invited to share her dressing room.

Bruns was involved in an accident at the Loews 7th Avenue Theatre in New York City, in 1918. The theatre closed for several days due to the incident. It reopened on October 7, with a presentation of The Blue Pearl.

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