Talk:Julie Gibson

Alive?
I don't understand why the eagerness to put her in the "possibly living" category. Some people want to retire in peace instead of appearing in interviews all the time.

No, I don't have a "reliable source" for this, but there are clues that suggest that she hasn't died.

1. An IMDb user got an autograph from Julie Gibson around 2010

2. This Youtube video (uploaded in 2011) has the following description:

''"Julie Gibson sings in three film clips from the Forties. A native of Lewiston, Idaho, she began her career in vaudeville before winning a national radio contest, landing her in Hollywood with a guaranteed two-week engagement at the famed Coconut Grove. She sang at all the popular nightclubs of the time before becoming the lead singer for the Jimmie Grier Orchestra, the house band at L.A.'s ritzy Biltmore Hotel, where she sang for all of Hollywood royalty at the 1937 Academy Awards. Nationally she was heard singing every Sunday night on the CBS Joe Penner radio show and on many Decca solo recordings. Signed to a Paramount contract in the early Forties, Julie was loaned out to several studios for movies such as seen here. In the early Fifties, she moved to Paris, working with such talents as Orson Welles and John Huston on some of their films as either press representative or dialogue coach. She returned to Hollywood in the late fifties and became a dialogue coach for such films as The Trouble with Angels and The Outrage. In the Sixties, she was the dialogue coach on TV's Family Affair for several years before marrying the director, Charlie Barton, and retiring. Still vibrantly alive at age 97 in 2011, she sings every day and can recall lyrics to over 300 songs she once sang."''

3. On a blog called Three Stooges Lost Players, a post from 2013 said the following: "Only two players who performed adult roles in a Stooge-related film earlier than 1944 are known to be alive. One is 95-year-old Lorna Gray (multiple shorts from 1939-1940) and the other is 99-year-old Julie Gibson (two shorts in 1942). Sethma Williams, 97, had her scene deleted from 1943's Dizzy Pilots." The blog is run by serious researchers if you read the "About" section.  O s c a r L  08:17, 19 April 2014 (UTC)


 * No one has responded here...okay, here's what I'll do. I'll try to reach some people that might've had recent contact with Julie.  O s c a r L  18:40, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

Birth name: Storay or Storey?
I have changed the spelling of Gibson's birth name to Storey after finding two contemporary newspaper articles that use that spelling. Links to clippings can be found in the citations that I added to the article tonight. Eddie Blick (talk) 03:59, 30 November 2017 (UTC)

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Removing stub tag
I can't understand the reasoning of the editor who replaced a tag with a stub tag. This doesn't seem to remotely fit the criteria for a stub. Considering the age of the living subject, which frequently makes it difficult to find RS info on individuals who are not very famous, I think it's actually a fine article. I've removed the tag, based on that determination. I also note that some text is sourced to Newspapers.com That should be recognized as a valued source, even if the articles there are all paywalled. An editor or editors concerned about the reliability of the citation can confirm it for themselves by getting a two-week free trial sub. Activist (talk) 21:35, 13 December 2018 (UTC)