Julie Gregg

Julie Gregg, born Beverly Marie Scalzo on January 24, 1937, in Niagara Falls, New York, was an American actress who worked across stage, film, and television. The daughter of Italian parents Victoria (née LaRocca) and Casper Louis Scalzo, she later relocated to California to study at the University of Southern California on a music scholarship. She died on November 7, 2016, at the age of 79, in the Van Nuys neighborhood of Los Angeles, following a battle with cancer.

Gregg made her only Broadway appearance in the 1968 musical The Happy Time, with music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb, directed by Gower Champion. She stepped into the role of schoolteacher Laurie Mannon, replacing Linda Bennett just prior to the New York opening. The performance earned her a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Musical, as well as a Theatre World Award for the 1967–68 season. Her co-star Robert Goulet won the Tony that year for Best Actor in a Musical. Beyond Broadway, Gregg was a veteran of national touring productions, including Fanny, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, and Show Boat, in which she portrayed Julie LaVerne in 1981.

Her film career began with an uncredited appearance as a nightclub singer in the 1966 Batman feature, followed by her first credited role in From Hell to Borneo (1967), shot on location in the Philippines, where she received second billing to George Montgomery. She became widely recognized for playing Sandra Corleone in The Godfather (1972). She reprised the role for The Godfather Part II, though her scene was cut from the theatrical release; it was later included in the television version, The Godfather Saga. In 1972 she also appeared in Man of La Mancha, playing Antonia, Don Quixote's niece, and was featured in the song "I'm Only Thinking of Him." Her later film work included The Kill Reflex (1989), starring Fred Williamson and Maud Adams, and the thriller Dead On (1994).

Gregg's television career spanned more than two decades, beginning with a 1964 guest role as a nurse on McHale's Navy. She appeared twice on Bewitched in separate roles: in "Double Split" (season 2, episode 64, 1966) and "The Crone of Cawdor" (season 3, episode 101, 1967), the latter featuring her as a crone who stole the youth of mortal men through a kiss. In 1966 she appeared in episodes 33 and 34 of Batman. She guest starred on Hawaii Five-O in two season 2 episodes, playing a revolutionist in "Savage Sunday" and the wife of a shooting victim in "The One with the Gun." She appeared in two separate episodes of Mission: Impossible, playing IMF operative Monique in the season 4 episode "Amnesiac" (1969) and a premier's daughter named Anna Kerkoska in the season 5 episode "Decoy" (1970).

In 1970 she appeared in The Virginian episode "The Gift" (season 8, episode 24) as a saloon girl targeted by a bank robber's partner, and in the Mannix episode "Fly, Little One" (season 3, episode 21) as a psychologist. In 1971 she made a guest appearance as Beth Wilson in season 16, episode 19 of Gunsmoke. From 1972 to 1973 she held a recurring role as nightclub singer Abby Graham in the NBC detective series Banyon, set in late-1930s Los Angeles and starring Robert Forster. In 1974 she appeared in "Survival," the final episode of The F.B.I.'s nine-year run, playing Mrs. Sandra Taggart. Her most prominent television role came in 1975, when she was cast as Maggie Spencer, a television news assignment editor, in all 11 episodes of the ABC drama series Mobile One, alongside co-star Jackie Cooper; the series was cancelled in January 1976. She appeared as Susan in the 1978 Eddie Capra Mysteries episode "The Two-Million-Dollar Stowaway" and as Edna Clapper in the 1979 miniseries The Seekers. Her final television credit was the role of Sally in the "Thanksgiving" episode of Showtime's Brothers in 1987.