- To overcome shyness, Julie began taking speech classes while in Junior High School.
- Julie's appeared in her first play, The Little Foxes, as a senior in high school
- Julie has hazel eyes.
- Julie has been married three times: to Robert Trentacosta, Stuart Irwin, Jr. and (presently) John Karns.
- In her youth, Julie studied Native American history and culture.
- Julie plays the piano.
- Julie is an expert horsewoman.
- The Governor and J.J. was filmed before a live audience.
- Julie was a scholarship student at San Bernadino Jr. College.
- Julie Sommars (who once played an attorney in Matlock), has been married to an attorney for 22 years.
- Julie has three brothers: Lee, Jack and Jim.
- Julie was the daughter of a government grain inspector and changed schools quite frequently during Junior/Senior High School.
- In 1960 Julie made her acting debut as Laury Barlow in The Loretta Young Show episode entitled Laury's Men
- Julie:(on her early school days)...I practiced handwriting until I wrote perfectly. That was my claim to fame. I was the girl with the prettiest handwriting.
- Julie: (on her relationship with Doug McClure) It had all the intensity and beauty and storminess of a high school romance.
- Julie: (commenting on the fact that she was an only girl with 3 brothers) I was very spoiled.
- Julie: (About the pitfalls of being an actress) It's a profession in which you're constantly being attacked for yourself. Your size, weight, hair color and so on.
- Julie: I was offered a couple of very good scholarships when I graduated from high school. I still wasn't thinking about becoming an actress, but a drama instructor at San Bernadino Junior College became pretty excited about my acting. I never really took myself that seriously.
- Julie: I never thought I'd be an actress. I thought actresses had to be gorgeous and I was no Elizabeth Taylor.
