The good news: Unbeknownst to many a Julie Ege fan she has actually published an autobiography. There has also been a study out about Norwegian actresses in Hollywood that extensively covers her as well and was also transferred into a feature length documentary that is available on video.
The bad news: Unless you have a penchant for Scandinavian languages you will not be able to understand them as they have only been published in Norwegian.
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Julie Ege’s autobiography Naken (“Naked”) was published in 2002 and covers “her childhood, her time as a factory worker, her budding career as a model, and her breakthrough in the Miss Norway contest that lead to an exhaustive movie career. She also writes about the time when she as a mother of small children was pursuing a degree in nursing, life with the writer Anders Bye, herself being diagnosed with breast cancer and becoming a grandmother”. |
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film director Niels Petter Solberg wrote
Norske
Filmdivaer in Hollywood (“Norwegian film divas in Hollywood”, 2001).
This is a coffee table book that is chock galore with often rare posters, stills
and private photos of Norwegian actresses that looked for fame and fortune in
Hollywood (and – apparently – Blimey). 26 of the book’s 140 pages are dedicated
to Julie Ege. The remainder covers Greta Nissen, Sigrid Gurie, Greta Gynt,
Anna-Lisa and Vera Zorina. It appears that this work will soon be out of print and then be incredibly rare and difficult to obtain, though the author still has a limited supply left that can be ordered directly from him for $65 (including postage) for European customers. There will be an additional $15 postage fee for those from other parts of the world. Niels accepts payments in cash or per Paypal. |
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Niels subsequently
directed a documentary on a similar subject: Norske kvinner i
Hollywood
(“Norwegian actresses in Hollywood” 2001). He had also accompanied Ege to the Hammer at Bray II event in 1999 and conducted an interview with her that was published in both Psychotronic Video # 24 and Little Shoppe of Horrors # 15. He also gave us kind permission to have that interview published online here on this site as well in case you don’t have a copy of these magazines around. |
Other magazines and books of interest to the Ege-ficionado (just a tiny percentage of the thousands of paragraphs that were devoted to her at her peek):
Penthouse UK, May 1967: Julie Ege features as “Nudest Miss Norway”
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Photoplay, April 1971: Cover and inside article and full page colour portraits |
New Cinema #5, Vol. 3 (1971): Italian film magazine that amongst others includes contributions by director Luigi Cozzi before he started making films. This edition also features an article about Julie Ege in Creatures the World Forgot.
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Punch: A Playboy Magazine parody by English satirical magazine Punch |
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Vidas Secretas: Spanish magazine. Pops up regularly on Ebay. Apparently Ege doesn’t want to be another Marilyn Monroe. |
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She also featured in an edition of Cosmopolitan and Play-Lady. |
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The Dark Side #83, “Every Home Should Have One”, p. 56-59: Excellent article/interview by John Hamilton about Julie Ege’s life and career. Photos are niiiiiccceeee.
Dagbladet, April 28, 2004: Interview for a Norwegian newspaper. Online version is available. Even if you don’t understand it, it has some current photos of her.
Peary, Danny: Cult
Movie Stars. New York: Simon & Schuster/Fireside (1991). p. 173.
It’s official: Julie Ege is
a “cult movie star”. This is an excellent book, but it has very little on Ege.
Sullivan, Steve:
Glamour Girls – The Illustrated Encyclopedia. New York: St Martin’s Griffin,
1999. p. 135
Ege turns up as # 304 of Steve Sullivan’s Glamour encyclopedia, right between
Judy Landers and Carmen Electra. Make of that what you want. Ege’s vital
statistics are quoted as 36-24-36
Bryce, Allan
(Editor). Fantasy Females. Liskeard (Cornwall): Stray Cat Publishing (2000).
It’s a prick teaser of a
book that as a whole promises more than it can hold. Nice photos, but very
uneven content. The chapter on Prehistoric Women shows some intriguingly air
brushed photos from Ege’s early model days. They gotta to be seen to be
believed, though a very thorough and single-minded search on the Internet will
probably also reveal these to the interested eye.
Greaves, Tim: The Bond
Women – 007 Style. 1-Shot Publications, 2002. p. 31/32.
Let’s face it: Ege’s part in
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service is minuscule. As such it is uplifting to
see that at least reading about her in Tim Greaves absolute Must Have book on
the subject probably takes more time than watching her in the film.
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