Happy Birthday, Catwoman

"It was so wonderful being on Batman because you could be nasty and mean

and in the `50s women could never - unless you were some B picture actress -

be mean, bad and nasty.  It was so satisfying; I can't tell you how satisfying it was."

Statuesque beauty of stage and screen, Julie Newmar, celebrates her 78th birthday today.

Most often remembered for her role as 'Catwoman' (for which she designed her own costume),

Newmar would go on to appear in many other programs including notable turns

in The Twilight Zone, F Troop, Bewitched, The Beverly Hillbillies, Star Trek, The Monster Squad
and Get Smart.  The sexpot would also appear in a 1968 Playboy pictorial at the age of 35.

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"Tell me I'm beautiful, it's nothing.  Tell me I'm intellectual - I know it.

Tell me I'm funny and it's the greatest compliment in the world anyone could give me."