Julie London dead

LOS ANGELES: Julie London, the sultry voiced actress and singer who had a hit record with the 1950s single ``Cry me a river'' and was once married to ``Dragnet'' producer-star Jack Webb, died in Los Angeles on Wednesday. She was 74. Born Julie Peck to a song- and-dance team who performed in Vaudeville, she started singing on her parents' radio show and started working in movies in the 1940s after changing her name to London. She appeared in nearly two dozen pictures during the 1940s and '50s, starring in such films as ``Task force'' (1949), ``The fat man'' (1951) and ``A question of adultery'' (1959). She married Webb in 1947 just as her singing career was getting off the ground. She is perhaps best remembered for her 1955 single ``Cry me a river,'' which sold 3 million copies and remained in demand into the 1960s. She sang the song in the 1956 Jayne Mansfield film ``The girl can't help it.''

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