Julie — Florence Stevenson

HER BEAUTY WAS HER BLESSING - AND HER CURSE

Julie Palmer learned early the power of her beauty - as she used it to escape the bars and brothels of the raw frontier mining town of her nightmare girlhood.

Julie learned the peril of that beauty as well, in the rapacious hands of the man who had destroyed her mother with his deisres, then ravenously turned on her.

That was the beginning of Julie's fiery odyssey of ambition and agony - through the brutal dangers of the American West...the gaudy splendor and untrammeled sinfulness of San Francisco...the glittering seductions of the capitals of Europe - as this exquisite woman moved from triumph on the stage and from the heady heights of ecstasy to the hellish depths of degradation in a world that engulfed her flowing dreams in flames of damning desire....