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Julie Adams, 92, Dies; ‘Black Lagoon’ Ingénue And a Veteran Actress - "Julie Adams and Ben Chapman, as the title character, in the 1954 movie “Creature From the Black Lagoon.” “No matter what you do,” Ms. Adams once said, “you can act your heart out, but people will always say, ‘Oh, Julie Adams — “Creature From the Black Lagoon.”’” Universal Pictures/Photofest Julie Adams, a Hollywood film and television actress for more than six decades widely remembered as the terrorized swimmer in the 1954 cult classic “Creature From the Black Lagoon,” died on Sunday in Los Angeles. She was 92. Ms. Adams with Elvis Presley in “Tickle Me” (1965). Allied Artists Pictures/Photofest A lithe beauty from Arkansas — she was Miss Little Rock of 1946 — Ms. Adams subdued her Southern drawl, got into the movies in 1949 and appeared in about 50 feature films with a Who’s Who of leading men, including Charlton Heston, Glenn Ford, Tony Curtis and Elvis Presley." New York Times