Lynn Bari
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Lynn Bari (born Margaret Schuyler Fisher, December 18, 1913 – November 20, 1989) was a film actress who specialized in playing sultry, statuesque man-killers in roughly 150 20th Century Fox films from the early 1930s through the 1940s.
Bari was one of 14 young women "launched on the trail of film stardom" August 6, 1935, when they each received a six-month contract with 20th Century Fox after spending 18 months in the company's training school. The contracts included a studio option for renewal for as long as seven years.
In most of her early films, Bari had uncredited parts usually playing receptionists or chorus girls. She struggled to find starring roles in films, but accepted any work she could get. Rare leading roles included China Girl (1942), Hello, Frisco, Hello (1943), and The Spiritualist (1948). In B movies, Lynn was usually cast as a villainess, notably Shock and Nocturne (both 1946). An exception was The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1944). During WWII, according to a survey taken of GIs, Bari was the second-most popular pinup girl after the much better-known Betty Grable.
Bari's film career fizzled out in the early 1950s as she was approaching her 40th birthday, although she continued to work at a more limited pace over the next two decades, now playing matronly characters rather than temptresses. She portrayed the mother of a suicidal teenager in a 1951 drama, On the Loose, plus a number of supporting parts.
Bari's last film appearance was as the mother of rebellious teenager Patty McCormack in The Young Runaways (1968) and her final TV appearances were in episodes of The Girl From U.N.C.L.E. and The FBI.
She quickly took up the rising medium of television during the '50s, which began when she starred in the live television sitcom Detective's Wife, which ran during the summer of 1950, and in Boss Lady
In 1955, Bari appeared in the episode "The Beautiful Miss X" of Rod Cameron's syndicated crime drama City Detective. In 1960, she played female bandit Belle Starr in the debut episode "Perilous Passage" of the NBC western series Overland Trail starring William Bendix and Doug McClure and with fellow guest star Robert J. Wilke as Cole Younger.
From July–September 1952, Bari starred in her own situation comedy, Boss Lady, a summer replacement for NBC's Fireside Theater. She portrayed Gwen F. Allen, the beautiful top executive of a construction firm. Not the least of her troubles in the role was being able to hire a general manager who did not fall in love with her.
Commenting on her "other woman" roles, Bari once said, "I seem to be a woman always with a gun in her purse. I'm terrified of guns. I go from one set to the other shooting people and stealing husbands!"
Fotos
Películas (114)
Johnny Walker
2015 · Christine Faber (archive footage)
The Young Runaways
1968 · Mrs. Donford
Six Gun Law
1962 · Mrs. Simmons
Trauma
1962 · Helen Garrison
Damn Citizen
1958 · Pat Noble
The Women of Pitcairn Island
1956 · Maimiti
Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops
1955 · Leota Van Cleef
Francis Joins the WACS
1954 · Louise Simpson
Has Anybody Seen My Gal?
1952 · Harriet Blaisdell
I Dream of Jeanie
1952 · Mrs. McDowell
On the Loose
1951 · Larry Lindsay
Sunny Side of the Street
1951 · Mary
I'd Climb the Highest Mountain
1951 · Mrs. Billywith
The Kid from Cleveland
1949 · Katherine Jackson
The Amazing Mr. X
1948 · Christine Faber
The Man from Texas
1948 · Charlie Jackson
Nocturne
1946 · Frances Ransom
Margie
1946 · Miss Isabel Palmer
Home Sweet Homicide
1946 · Marian Carstairs
Shock
1946 · Elaine Jordan
Captain Eddie
1945 · Adelaide Frost Rickenbacker
Sweet and Low-Down
1944 · Pat Stirling
Take It or Leave It
1944 · (archive footage) (uncredited)
Tampico
1944 · Katherine Hall
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
1944 · Michaela Villegas
Hello, Frisco, Hello
1943 · Bernice Croft
China Girl
1942 · Captain Fifi
Orchestra Wives
1942 · Jaynie Stevens
The Magnificent Dope
1942 · Claire Harris
The Falcon Takes Over
1942 · Ann Riordan
Secret Agent of Japan
1942 · Kay Murdock
The Night Before the Divorce
1942 · Lynn Nordyke
The Perfect Snob
1941 · Chris Mason
Moon Over Her Shoulder
1941 · Susan Rossiter
We Go Fast
1941 · Rose Coughlin
Sun Valley Serenade
1941 · Vivian Dawn
Screen Snapshots Series 21 No. 1
1941 · Self
Blood and Sand
1941 · Encarnacion
Sleepers West
1941 · Kay Bentley
Charter Pilot
1940 · Marge Duncan
Kit Carson
1940 · Dolores Murphy
Pier 13
1940 · Sally Kelly
Earthbound
1940 · Linda Reynolds
Lillian Russell
1940 · Edna McCauley
Free, Blonde and 21
1940 · Carol Northrup
City of Chance
1940 · Julie Reynolds
City in Darkness
1939 · Marie Dubon
Pack Up Your Troubles
1939 · Yvonne
Hollywood Cavalcade
1939 · Actress
Hotel for Women
1939 · Barbara Hunter
News Is Made at Night
1939 · Maxine Thomas
Chasing Danger
1939 · Renée Claire
The Return of the Cisco Kid
1939 · Ann Carver
Pardon Our Nerve
1939 · Terry Wilson
Sharpshooters
1938 · Dianne Woodward
Meet the Girls
1938 · Terry Wilson
I'll Give a Million
1938 · Cecelia
Always Goodbye
1938 · Jessica Reid
Speed to Burn
1938 · Marion Clark
Josette
1938 · Mrs. Elaine Dupree
Battle of Broadway
1938 · Marjorie Clark
Mr. Moto's Gamble
1938 · Penny Kendall
Walking Down Broadway
1938 · Sandra De Voe
The Baroness and the Butler
1938 · Klari - Maid
City Girl
1938 · Waitress (uncredited)
Love and Hisses
1937 · Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Lancer Spy
1937 · Miss Fenwick
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
1937 · Party Girl
You Can't Have Everything
1937 · Girl in YWCA (uncredited)
She Had to Eat
1937 · Crowd Scene Participant (uncredited)
This Is My Affair
1937 · Party Guest with Keller (uncredited)
Café Metropole
1937 · Patron at Sidewalk Café (uncredited)
Fair Warning
1937 · Counter girl
Love Is News
1937 · 'Babe' - Switchboard Operator (uncredited)
On the Avenue
1937 · Mary Jackson (uncredited)
Time Out for Romance
1937 · Bridesmaid
Woman-Wise
1937 · Secretary (uncredited)
Crack-Up
1936 · Office Worker (uncredited)
Under Your Spell
1936 · Airplane Passenger (uncredited)
Pigskin Parade
1936 · Football Game Spectator (uncredited)
Ladies in Love
1936 · Dress Shop Clerk (uncredited)
Sing, Baby, Sing
1936 · Hotel Telephone Operator
36 Hours to Kill
1936 · Traveler
Private Number
1936 · Gambler (Uncredited)
Everybody's Old Man
1936 · Secretary, Miss Burke
My Marriage
1936 · Pat
King of Burlesque
1936 · Dancer (uncredited)
Professional Soldier
1935 · Gypsy Dancer
Show Them No Mercy!
1935 · Crowd Scene Member (uncredited)
Pirate Party on Catalina Isle
1935 · Girl on Sailboat (uncredited)
Thanks a Million
1935 · Phone Operator (uncredited)
Music Is Magic
1935 · Theatre Cashier (uncredited)
Way Down East
1935 · Dancing Girl at Party (uncredited)
The Gay Deception
1935 · Milk Fund Ball Attendee (uncredited)
Redheads on Parade
1935 · Waitress (uncredited)
The Daring Young Man
1935 · Bridesmaid
Doubting Thomas
1935 · Aspiring Actress
Spring Tonic
1935 · Bridesmaid
$10 Raise
1935 · Secretary (uncredited)
George White's 1935 Scandals
1935 · Chorine (uncredited), Chorine
Under Pressure
1935 · Blonde Brooklyn Girl (uncredited)
Charlie Chan in Paris
1935 · Club Patron (uncredited)
Caravan
1934 · Gypsy (Uncredited)
Music in the Air
1934 · Dancer (uncredited)
365 Nights in Hollywood
1934 · Showgirl (uncredited)
Handy Andy
1934 · Girl at Train Station (uncredited)
Stand Up and Cheer!
1934 · White House Secretary / Chorine (uncredited)
Bottoms Up
1934 · Chorine (uncredited)
Coming Out Party
1934 · Party Guest
David Harum
1934 · Young Townswoman (uncredited)
Search for Beauty
1934 · Beauty Contestant Entrant (uncredited)
I Am Suzanne!
1933 · Audience Member
Dancing Lady
1933 · Chorus Girl (uncredited)
Meet the Baron
1933 · College Girl (uncredited)
Series (17)
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
1966 · Miss Twickum
The F.B.I.
1965 · Belinda
Everglades
1961
The New Breed
1961 · Mrs. Grace
Ben Casey
1961
Michael Shayne
1960
The Aquanauts
1960 · Ann Nincel
Law of the Plainsman
1959 · Constance Valeri
Bronco
1958 · Amy Biggs
Perry Mason
1957 · Sylvia Cord, Ruth Duncan
Science Fiction Theatre
1955
Climax!
1954 · Mrs. Combie
Studio 57
1954
City Detective
1953
Boss Lady
1952 · Gwen Allen
Lux Video Theatre
1950 · Kay Plumber, Millie Drake, Evelyn, Anita Cooper
Detective's Wife
1950 · Connie Conway