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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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!"
Movie | Johnny Walker | Christine Faber (archive footage) | 2015-05-13 |
Movie | The Young Runaways | Mrs. Donford | 1968-09-11 |
Series | The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. | Unknown | 1966-09-13 |
Series | The F.B.I. | Unknown | 1965-09-19 |
Movie | Trauma | Helen Garrison | 1962-03-23 |
Movie | Six Gun Law | Mrs. Simmons | 1962-12-01 |
Series | The New Breed | Unknown | 1961-10-03 |
Series | Ben Casey | Unknown | 1961-10-02 |
Series | Everglades | Unknown | 1961-10-09 |
Series | The Aquanauts | Unknown | 1960-09-14 |
Series | Michael Shayne | Unknown | 1960-09-30 |
Series | Law of the Plainsman | Unknown | 1959-10-01 |
Movie | Damn Citizen | Pat Noble | 1958-03-01 |
Series | Bronco | Unknown | 1958-09-23 |
Series | Perry Mason | Unknown | 1957-09-21 |
Movie | The Women of Pitcairn Island | Maimiti | 1956-12-01 |
Series | Science Fiction Theatre | Unknown | 1955-04-09 |
Movie | Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops | Leota Van Cleef | 1955-02-02 |
Series | Studio 57 | Unknown | 1954-09-21 |
Movie | Francis Joins the WACS | Louise Simpson | 1954-07-30 |
Series | Climax! | Unknown | 1954-10-07 |
Series | City Detective | Unknown | 1953-09-07 |
Movie | I Dream of Jeanie | Mrs. McDowell | 1952-06-15 |
Movie | Has Anybody Seen My Gal? | Harriet Blaisdell | 1952-06-25 |
Series | Boss Lady | 1952-07-01 | |
Movie | I'd Climb the Highest Mountain | Mrs. Billywith | 1951-02-17 |
Movie | On the Loose | Larry Lindsay | 1951-09-28 |
Movie | Sunny Side of the Street | Mary | 1951-09-01 |
Series | Lux Video Theatre | Unknown | 1950-10-02 |
Movie | The Kid from Cleveland | Katherine Jackson | 1949-09-05 |
Movie | The Man from Texas | Charlie Jackson | 1948-03-06 |
Movie | The Amazing Mr. X | Christine Faber | 1948-07-29 |
Movie | Shock | Nurse Elaine Jordan | 1946-02-01 |
Movie | Home Sweet Homicide | Marian Carstairs | 1946-10-02 |
Movie | Nocturne | Frances Ransom | 1946-10-29 |
Movie | Margie | Miss Isabel Palmer | 1946-10-15 |
Movie | Captain Eddie | Adelaide Frost Rickenbacker | 1945-06-18 |
Movie | Sweet and Low-Down | Pat Stirling | 1944-09-21 |
Movie | Tampico | Katherine Hall | 1944-04-10 |
Movie | The Bridge of San Luis Rey | Michaela Villegas | 1944-02-11 |
Movie | Take It or Leave It | Herself | 1944-07-17 |
Movie | Hello, Frisco, Hello | Bernice Croft | 1943-03-26 |
Movie | Secret Agent of Japan | Kay Murdock | 1942-04-03 |
Movie | The Falcon Takes Over | Ann Riordan | 1942-05-29 |
Movie | The Night Before the Divorce | Lynn Nordyke | 1942-03-06 |
Movie | China Girl | Captain Fifi | 1942-12-09 |
Movie | The Magnificent Dope | Claire Harris | 1942-07-01 |
Movie | Orchestra Wives | Jaynie Stevens | 1942-09-04 |
Movie | Blood and Sand | Encarnacion | 1941-05-30 |
Movie | Sleepers West | Kay Bentley | 1941-03-14 |
Movie | Sun Valley Serenade | Vivian Dawn | 1941-08-29 |
Movie | We Go Fast | Rose Coughlin | 1941-09-19 |
Movie | The Perfect Snob | Chris Mason | 1941-12-19 |
Movie | Moon Over Her Shoulder | Susan Rossiter | 1941-10-23 |
Movie | Lillian Russell | Edna McCauley | 1940-05-24 |
Movie | Earthbound | Linda Reynolds | 1940-06-06 |
Movie | Free, Blonde and 21 | Carol Northrup | 1940-03-28 |
Movie | City of Chance | Julie Reynolds | 1940-01-13 |
Movie | Pier 13 | Sally Kelly | 1940-08-08 |
Movie | Charter Pilot | Marge Duncan | 1940-12-06 |
Movie | Kit Carson | Dolores Murphy | 1940-08-30 |
Movie | The Return of the Cisco Kid | Ann Carver | 1939-04-28 |
Movie | Pardon Our Nerve | Terry Wilson | 1939-02-24 |
Movie | Chasing Danger | Renée Claire | 1939-05-05 |
Movie | News Is Made at Night | Maxine Thomas | 1939-07-20 |
Movie | Pack Up Your Troubles | Yvonne | 1939-10-24 |
Movie | Hollywood Cavalcade | Actress | 1939-10-13 |
Movie | City in Darkness | Marie Dubon | 1939-11-15 |
Movie | Hotel for Women | Barbara Hunter] | 1939-08-03 |
Movie | Battle Of Broadway | Marjorie Clark | 1938-04-22 |
Movie | Mr. Moto's Gamble | Penny Kendall | 1938-04-07 |
Movie | The Baroness and the Butler | Klari - Maid | 1938-02-18 |
Movie | Josette | Mrs. Elaine Dupree | 1938-06-03 |
Movie | Walking Down Broadway | Sandra De Voe | 1938-03-11 |
Movie | Meet the Girls | Terry Wilson | 1938-10-06 |
Movie | Sharpshooters | Dianne Woodward | 1938-11-18 |
Movie | Speed to Burn | Marion Clark | 1938-06-07 |
Movie | I'll Give a Million | Cecelia | 1938-07-27 |
Movie | Always Goodbye | Jessica Reid | 1938-06-24 |
Movie | Love Is News | 'Babe' - Switchboard Operator (uncredited) | 1937-02-26 |
Movie | Fair Warning | Counter girl | 1937-03-05 |
Movie | Woman-Wise | Secretary (uncredited) | 1937-01-22 |
Movie | Café Metropole | Patron at Sidewalk Café (uncredited) | 1937-04-28 |
Movie | On the Avenue | Mary Jackson (uncredited) | 1937-02-12 |
Movie | Time Out for Romance | Bridesmaid | 1937-02-10 |
Movie | Love and Hisses | Nightclub Patron (uncredited) | 1937-12-21 |
Movie | This Is My Affair | Party Guest with Keller (uncredited) | 1937-05-28 |
Movie | Wife, Doctor and Nurse | Party Girl | 1937-09-17 |
Movie | Lancer Spy | Miss Fenwick | 1937-10-08 |
Movie | You Can't Have Everything | Girl in YWCA (uncredited) | 1937-08-02 |
Movie | She Had to Eat | Crowd Scene Participant (uncredited) | 1937-07-02 |
Movie | Private Number | Gambler (Uncredited) | 1936-06-05 |
Movie | My Marriage | Pat | 1936-01-31 |
Movie | King of Burlesque | Dancer (uncredited) | 1936-01-03 |
Movie | 36 Hours to Kill | Traveler | 1936-07-24 |
Movie | Sing, Baby, Sing | Hotel Telephone Operator | 1936-08-21 |
Movie | Under Your Spell | Airplane Passenger (uncredited) | 1936-11-06 |
Movie | Crack-Up | Office Worker (uncredited) | 1936-12-14 |
Movie | Pigskin Parade | Football Game Spectator (uncredited) | 1936-10-23 |
Movie | Ladies In Love | Dress Shop Clerk (uncredited) | 1936-10-09 |
Movie | Spring Tonic | Bridesmaid | 1935-06-27 |
Movie | Doubting Thomas | Aspiring Actress | 1935-07-10 |
Movie | Charlie Chan in Paris | Club Patron (uncredited) | 1935-01-21 |
Movie | The Daring Young Man | Bridesmaid | 1935-07-17 |
Movie | Under Pressure | Blonde Brooklyn Girl (uncredited) | 1935-02-02 |
Movie | George White's 1935 Scandals | Chorine (uncredited) | 1935-03-29 |
Movie | Music Is Magic | Theatre Cashier (uncredited) | 1935-11-01 |
Movie | Redheads on Parade | Waitress (uncredited) | 1935-09-07 |
Movie | Show Them No Mercy! | Crowd Scene Member (uncredited) | 1935-12-06 |
Movie | Pirate Party on Catalina Isle | Girl on Sailboat (uncredited) | 1935-11-20 |
Movie | Way Down East | Dancing Girl at Party (uncredited) | 1935-10-25 |
Movie | Thanks a Million | Phone Operator (uncredited) | 1935-11-13 |
Movie | David Harum | Young Townswoman (uncredited) | 1934-03-02 |
Movie | Search for Beauty | Beauty Contestant Entrant (uncredited) | 1934-02-02 |
Movie | Coming Out Party | Party Guest | 1934-03-09 |
Movie | 365 Nights in Hollywood | Showgirl (uncredited) | 1934-12-11 |
Movie | Bottoms Up | Chorine (uncredited) | 1934-04-12 |
Movie | Caravan | Gypsy (Uncredited) | 1934-12-30 |
Movie | Music in the Air | Dancer (uncredited) | 1934-12-13 |
Movie | Meet the Baron | College Girl (uncredited) | 1933-10-20 |
Movie | I Am Suzanne! | Audience Member | 1933-12-25 |
Movie | Dancing Lady | Chorus Girl (uncredited) | 1933-11-24 |