Julia Dean (actress, born 1878)

Julia Dean (May 13, 1878 – October 17, 1952) was a stage and film actress who began her career in the 1890s.

Julia Dean was born to Albert Clay Dean and Susan Jane Morton in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1878. She had a sister Eloise and a brother. She made her Broadway debut December 1, 1902 in The Altars of Friendship. She toured with Joseph Jefferson and James Neill. In 1907 she appeared with Maclyn Arbuckle in The Round-Up. She worked for producers William A. Brady and David Belasco.

She began making silent pictures in 1915 and continued until 1919. She then devoted her career to the stage until 1944 when she returned to films in The Curse of the Cat People. She continued to appear in film noir classics like Nightmare Alley lending her white-haired support in many uncredited roles. She died in Hollywood in 1952.

The Theatre Magazine (1913)

She was married to Frank Slocum (aka Orme Caldara; 1875–1925) from 1906 to 1913. She was the niece of 19th-century actress Julia Dean.

Ad for the American film Ruling Passions (1918) with Julia Dean and Edwin Arden

Silent

• How Molly Made Good (1915) (* herself; cameo appearance, with her sister Eloise)
• Judge Not; or The Woman of Mona Diggings (1915)
• Matrimony (1915)
• The Ransom (1916)
• Rasputin, the Black Monk (1917)
• Ruling Passions (1918)
• A Society Exile (1919)
• An Honorable Cad (1919) *short

Sound

• The Curse of the Cat People (1944)
• Experiment Perilous (1944)
• Do You Love Me (1946)
• O.S.S. (1946)
• Out of the Blue (1947)
• Magic Town (1947)
• Nightmare Alley (1947)
• The Emperor Waltz (1948)
• Easy Living (1949)
• Girls' School (1950)
• People Will Talk (1951)
• Elopement (1951)
• At Sword's Point (1952)
• You for Me (1952)