Julia B. Glut

Julia Blasovits was born in 1917. She is the mother of well known movie producer Donald F. Glut, and sister of Christine E. Dittmeyer (nee Blasovits) and married to Frank C. Glut. In 1939, she bought her boy friend Frank a Keystone 16mm silent movie camera as a Christmas gift. Frank took many home movies using this camera. The camera would later become her son Donald's camera, that Donald would use to make many amateur movies. Julia married Frank on 28 November 1942. In February 1943, he joined the Army Air Corp as a cadet. In September 1943, Julia joined Frank (who was now a Second Lieutenant ) at Tucson Arizona. Frank was later transferred to the United Kingdom. On 3 February 1945, he was the pilot of a B-24 Liberator, flying a mission over Germany, will co-pilot William Lozowski. His plane was hit by flak. Frank & William bailed out, but as they were too close to the ground, their shoots did not open. After the war, The Gluts and the Lozowski remained good friends, with son William Roddy Lozowski appearing in two of Donald's movies - Spy Smasher Vs The Purple Monster (1964) and Dinosaur Valley Girls (1996). Julia help her son Donald with his movies. She would make costumes, do makeup, and was Donald's first camera operator. In an interview on the DVD "I Was a Teenage Movie Maker: Don Glut's Amateur Movies" as recounts the many things that she did to help Donald, and added "that he never paid me". She was also a Member of V.A.V.S committee, Hines Veterans Hospital and Gold Star Wives of America, Second Air division, 8th Air Force. he passed away on 13 April 2009 with the funeral held at St. Andrew Church, with interment St. Joseph.