Julie Newmar’s Catwoman debuted #onthisday in the “Batman” television episode "The Purrr-fect Crime”. Airing on March 16, 1966, written by Stanley Ralph Ross and Lee Orgel, and directed by James Sheldon, this marked the first time the Batman femme fatale was featured outside of DC comic books. In "The Purrr-fect Crime", Catwoman strikes and steals a golden cat statue from the Gotham Art Museum and the Dynamic Duo of Batman (Adam West) and Robin (Burt Ward) are called in to investigate her next m

. Birthday greetings to actress JULIE NEWMAR; she’s 84 years old today. Her first major role, billed as Julie Newmeyer, was as Dorcas, one of the brides in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954). Her three-minute Broadway appearance as the leggy Stupefyin' Jones in the musical Li'l Abner in 1956 led to a reprise in the film version released in 1959. She was also in the low-budget comedy The Rookie (also 1959), The Marriage-Go-Round (1961), which starred James Mason and Susan Hayward, and the wes