Talk:Julie Payne

message: This article seems to conflate two different actresses named Julie Payne:
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Unfortunately, IMDB seems to have corrupted data as well: it claims both of these were married to Robert Towne. This really needs to be sorted out, preferably from more WP:Reliable sources than IMDB and random websites. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hqb (talk • contribs) 20:53, 4 October 2007
:I agree, this has confused me as well. All Hallow's Wraith (talk) 12:20, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Confusion between two Julie Paynes? 

message: As if the confusion between Julie Ann[e] Payne and Julie K[athleen] Payne wasn't enough, there seems to be a third actress of that name, born in 1946 or 1947. This Julie Payne was born in Sweet Home, Oregon, graduated from South Eugene High School in 1964, and was a member of improv group The Committee, as detailed in this 1976 article and interview with her in the Eugene Register-Guard. The article goes on to note that she had TV roles in The Bob Newhart Show; Love, American Style; and The Streets of San Francisco, all of which IMDB ascribes to the Julie Payne from Terre Haute, IN. It also mentions Oregon Julie's radio  commercials for McDonalds and [F]otomat in the 1970s.
Now, to make the confusion complete, this bio page from what appears to be a talent agency representing her, says very clearly that the Julie Payne who was a member of The Committee and did commercials for McDonalds and Fotomat in the 70s is also the one who had significant roles in Garfield, Laverne & Shirley, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and others, right up to the 2000s. What's going on here? If those two Julie Paynes are in fact the same person, do we actually have a rock solid source (IMDB obviously doesn't count) saying that Julie K[athleen] Payne was born 1940 in Terre Haute? Hqb (talk) 17:57, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Two points here. The photo alongside the "talent agency" article definitely shows the woman who played Dr. Johnny Fever's former live-in suing him for palimony in an episode of WKRP in Cincinnati, which IMDb attributes to the Indiana J.P. (whose year of birth they give as 1940, not 1946 as the top posting on this page incorrectly claims). The Oregon newspaper article has a box on the right hand side of the page on top of part of the article. I can't get rid of it, I can't scroll the article at all (the only scroll bar present works that box), and consequently I can read very little of the article. I was hoping to find a mention of her middle name (or at least initial). Does it show that way for you? Given the statements you say it makes attributing certain work to her, which I cannot see at all, I guess not, so what gives? --Tbrittreid (talk) 19:34, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The top posting on this page (mine) says 1946, because that's what IMDB said at the time; it has since been changed. (I hesitate to say "corrected".) As for scrolling through the newspaper article, I don't think you're supposed to use the scroll bar at all; you can just click-and-drag on the image itself, much like in Google Maps. (At least that's the way it works for me in Firefox on Linux, so anything more mainstream than that should also work.) But in any case, the article makes no mention whatsoever of a middle name or initial for Oregon Julie. Hqb (talk) 20:38, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: WOW! I didn't know it was possible to access past versions of IMDb pages. And, yeah, I see. Also, the article does indeed work as you indicated, thanks for that. Except for that one "K" credit in 1991, it looks like its just a matter of determining whether Oregon Julie was born in '46 or '40 (although there is the question of where the hell "Terre Haute, IN" came from). --Tbrittreid (talk) 21:08, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  A third Julie Payne?