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Julienne Marie Hendricks (born March 21, 1937),Profile
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known professionally as Julienne Marie, is an American former actress and singer, best known for her work on the Broadway stage. In addition to her career in theater, Marie appeared in soap operas such as ''
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'' (1965) and ''
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'' (1978).


Biography

Julianne Marie Hendricks was born to John Hendricks, a chemist, and his wife Ethel (née Gyurko). in
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. Her mother was a stage mother who pushed her into performing at a very young age. She was named for her paternal grandmother, Julia Hendricks. She dropped her last name and changed Julianne to Julienne, using her first and middle names to create her stage name (Julienne Marie), as she thought the surname Hendricks sounded "too Midwestern". During her school years, she took piano lessons and participated in local pageants. She moved from Toledo to New York with her family where she started voice training at
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.


Theatre

She made her Broadway debut in the original production of ''
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'' as the youngest of
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's child brides. She received her first
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nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Musical in 1959 for her portrayal of a young Indian maiden in ''
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'', which played 56 performances. Around 1960, she turned down a lead role in
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's ''
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'' to step into the original production of ''
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'' as Louise, succeeding
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.
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herself reportedly praised Julienne's performance. She performed 585 shows as Louise opposite Merman. In 1963, she won a
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award for her work in the off-Broadway revival of ''
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''. In 1964, Julienne received her second
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nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her work in '' Foxy'' starring
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. ''Foxy'' played for 72 performances. In 1965, she starred in ''
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'', alongside Elizabeth Allen; the show played 220 performances. Her final Broadway appearance came in 1980 for the musical ''
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''; the show played just 17 performances. In the late 1980s, she performed a cabaret act.


Personal life

She first wed Gerald Kean, a writer in 1955; later divorcing him in 1961. She met
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while he was performing as Othello in 1964. They married in 1968 and divorced in 1972. Marie said that her marriage to Jones ended because they were apart too much due to work and Jones wanted children and she did not. She met advertising executive John Scanlon in the early 1970s and they married in 1974, remaining married until his death in 2001 at age 66 from a heart attack. The couple were patrons for the
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. After Scanlon's death, she relocated from Manhattan to a small village in France. Long retired from show business, and established a career as a psychotherapist later in life.


External links

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References

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