Time stops on the movie screen, and Julie Adams is ever and always the pretty girl in the white swimsuit, Ron Wolfe writes in Tuesday's Style section.
The title monster of the 1954 horror movie Creature From the Black Lagoon is about to grab her with his scaly claws: “Raging with pent-up passions,” the ads promised, “a woman’s beauty his prey.”
“I always dreamed of the exciting life of a movie star,” Adams, 86, says. With thanks to the creature, “I guess I’ve more or less fulfilled it.”
Read about Adams who grew up in Blytheville, and attended high school and junior college in Little Rock, in Tuesday's Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. Traveling from California, the actress will be at the Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock on Friday to receive the Distinguished Alumni Award from University of Arkansas at Little Rock.