"Cabaret is one-to-one, like a party, and you're the hostess who wants to please. Most of all you have to have a good time and hope your audience joins in the fun."
This is turning into a day for Divas! Thanks to another of my favourite bloggers, TJB at Stirred, Straight Up, With A Twist, I am reminded that it is the 86th birthday today of Miss Julie Wilson - actress, singer, and beacon of fabulousness!
Miss Wilson famously arrived in London from Nebraska via Noo Yawk to appear in the West End debut of Cole Porter's Kiss Me Kate in 1951. She liked it so much she stayed far longer than that show's run, and enrolled in RADA (while still gracing London's stages in productions such as South Pacific).
With that prestigious learning under her belt, she returned to her homeland to wow Broadway as well, before drifting inexorably (as so many before her) onto television. Evidently tired of this limiting medium, she announced her retirement during the 70s "to spend more time with her family".
But you can't keep a true grande dame of showbiz down for long. Julie Wilson was "rediscovered" as a camp icon in the 1980s, and continues to perform to this day as a much-loved popular cabaret artiste at various venues across the States. Here is a most appropriate song that she loves to perform these days...
And here's the lady still being "bad" in her 80s...
Happy birthday to a real old broad!
Julie Wilson official website
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