By the 1950s, Julie Newmar’s Hollywood dream was a reality.
“I don’t call what I’m doing work this is expression.
I like to express myself.
I want success, but I’m not the scratching-for-success kind.
It’s not a tapeworm eating inside me.
I want to get to the top, but if I don’t, I don’t.”
The further you fall, the greater the opportunity for growth and change."
Her brother died in a tragic accident in 1962
Tragedy struck the Newmeyer family in the ’60s.
Julie’s brother Peter died in a skiing accident in 1962 at the age of 30.
Series star Adam West has also touched on the matter of residuals and royalties.
She was cast alongside actor Robert Cummings, who evidently wasn’t so easy to work with.
Newmar reflected on her experience of sharing the screen with Cummings in a 2012 interview with theLos Angeles Times.
“He wanted the title to be ‘His Living Doll,'” Newmar said.
“Everything had to turn his way.”
After a dispute with production, Cummings left the show in the middle of the first and only season.
Even with all of the drama, Newmar looks back on the show fondly.
In a 2023 interview withCloser Weekly, she spoke about the role and its challenges.
“This was my Shakespeare!
It was a great show-off part and a gift to any aspiring actor,” she said.
She had three miscarriages
Julie Newmar’s journey to motherhood was not easy.
As she shared in Esquire in 2007, she had three miscarriages before her son was born.
“He is a blessing and a jewel.
He is my teacher,” she said.
“From him I get and give unconditional love.”
She has lost her ‘reproductive story,’ and it needs to be grieved."
“Children teach you.
Oh, my goodness.
Oh, my gracious,” she told The Spiel.
“I think my life is blessed, that’s all.
It’s just blessed.”
John, who has Down syndrome, contracted meningitis when he was still a toddler.
Meningitis is incredibly serious, as it can be fatal.
John lost his hearing as a result of the infection, but thankfully, he survived.
As she wrote on herblog, “He is filled to his capacity in the life he has.
No one should pity him, nor attempt to create worlds he doesn’t have.
I am delightfully happy in his presence and he in mine.”
A friendly relationship with your neighbor can make life more pleasant and significantly less complicated.
Oh, and Belushi even accused Newmar of egging his property.
Things between the neighbors eventually resulted in a lawsuit a legal headache Newmar likely could have done without.
She also shared that she couldn’t understand how it could have happened to her.
“I never went out in the sun.
My mother’s advice was always wise,” she wrote.
My face is important."
What’s more, her overall health is a major priority.
She continued, “I have five people to support.
They are family and they are beloved to me.”
Ultra responsible, you know what I mean," she wrote.
“I share my experience to help you know yourself and live better.”
“I have experienced a few things I would have rather not,” she told theObserverin 2017.
It would take her decades before she was comfortable to come forward and tell what happened to her.
“I always thought in a sense men would be men.
This is a good thing that this came up to the surface.”
“My symptoms started around 2000, when I found walking difficult,” she toldLife Extension Magazinein 2009.
“Last year, the UCLA neurologist I’ve been seeing diagnosed it.
Today, I walkbut very slowly.”
This has, in turn, has impacted her ability to travel the world with her son.
“The garden heals me from all my left brain business,” she told the outlet.
In a separate chat withABC7, Newmar shared a silver lining.
“CMT has helped me learn to focus,” she said.
“It’s made everything I do more important.”
Before Newmar made it big as an actor, she was an established dancer.
CMT has changed her relationship with dance, but again, she found a silver lining.
The actor survived a heart attack
In April 2018, Julie Newmar had a heart attack.
A week later, the “Batman” alum took toFacebookto share what happened.
After receiving a stent implant, she made a swift recovery.
In her post, she assured fans she was already feeling well.
“I never weigh myself or count calories; I only exercise for pleasure.
The actor also sees great value in having a good laugh.
“I am still a highly disciplined funster.
Everything is such a gift now,” she added.
She posted a photo of herself in a wheelchair, sporting a full-leg cast.
Leave it to Catwoman to keep clawing forward.
