R.I.P. Creature From The Black Lagoon Muse Julie Adams Passes Away

LOS ANGELES. CA. (THECOUNT) — Actress Julie Adams, best known for her role as the looker in 1954 monster movie, Creature from the Black Lagoon, has died. She was 92.

Adams’ son Mitchell Danton told The Hollywood Reporter that Adams died early Sunday morning in Los Angeles, reports EW.

Her many other credits included 1965’s Elvis Presley-starring Tickle Me, Dennis Hopper’s 1971 film The Last Movie, the TV show Murder, She Wrote, and 2006’s Oliver Stone-directed World Trade Center.

Those who have paid tribute to Adams include Patton Oswalt and director Guillermo del Toro, whose Oscar-winning film The Shape of Water was clearly influenced by Creature from the Black Lagoon.

“I mourn Julie Adams passing,” wrote del Toro on Twitter. “It hurts in a place deep in me, where monsters swim.”

“Julie Adams has returned to the Black Lagoon,” wrote Oswalt. “The scene of you swimming while The Creature mirrored your moves underwater is every awkward heart yearning for someone in the sunshine to reach down and just see them. Iconic forever.”