She Used To Go by a Different Name
While everyone knows her as Julie Newmar, she was born Julie Chalene Newmeyer to Don and Helen Newmeyer. For her first few credited roles, she went by Julie Newmeyer until the 1954 film Seven Brides and Seven Brothers. However, when her career started to take off, she decided to change her name. It was easier for people to recognize.
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As a child, Newmar began dancing at an early age and performed as a prima ballerina with the Los Angeles Opera beginning at age 15. She started her career with small parts and uncredited roles in films as a dancer, including a part as the “dancer-assassin” in Slaves of Babylon (1953). She also played the “gilded girl” in Serpent of the Nile (1953), in which she was clad in gold paint and tape.