Julie Newmar: Pinup by the Pool

This color pinup portrait features American actress, dancer, and singer, Julie Newmar, circa 1959. She is pictured here lying by the pool with legs up, her reflection in the water standing out against the blue sky.

Newmar is known for a variety of stage, screen, and television roles as well as a writer, lingerie inventor, and real estate mogul. She won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her role as Katrin Sveg in the 1958 Broadway production of The Marriage-Go-Round and reprised the role in the 1961 film version. In the 1960s, she starred for two seasons as Catwoman in the television series Batman (1966-1967). Her other stage credits include the Ziegfeld Follies in 1956, and playing Lola in Damn Yankees! (1961) and Irma in Irma la Douce (1965) in regional productions.