Holy Hotness! If you, too, grew up in the 60s, Julie Newmar was almost certainly your first crush. As the original, the indelible, and the best Catwoman to ever appear on the high-concept, high-camp television series Batman, she slithered into legend.
Smarter, sexier, and taller than Batman (over six feet in her kitten heels), Catwoman was the first bona fide goddess on children’s television. (Not that the series was intended for children exclusively. With its Expressionist lighting, portentous voice-over by the show’s producer, William Dozier, and “Dutch tilt” off-kilter camera angles, it was designed to appeal to adults as well.)
