Lynn Bari

Acting · 0.7 popularity

Age

112

Movies

114

Born: December 18, 1913 – November 20, 1989
From: Roanoke, Virginia, USA

Biography

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!"

Works

114 films

Johnny Walker

2015

My Marriage

19366.7

China Girl

19425.4

The Baroness and the Butler

19385.3

Stand Up and Cheer!

19345.3

Blood and Sand

19416.5

Love and Hisses

193710.0

You Can't Have Everything

19376.5

Love Is News

19376.3

Charlie Chan in Paris

19356.6

Ladies in Love

19366.5

Dancing Lady

19336.9

Time Out for Romance

19376.0

Margie

19467.1

Nocturne

19465.9

Private Number

19366.7

Lillian Russell

19406.7

The Gay Deception

19356.4

Mr. Moto's Gamble

19386.4

The Falcon Takes Over

19426.3

Woman-Wise

19379.0

36 Hours to Kill

19366.1

Crack-Up

19365.9

Kit Carson

19406.1

Shock

19465.9

The Amazing Mr. X

19486.2

David Harum

19347.5

Way Down East

19354.3

Music Is Magic

19355.3

Walking Down Broadway

19386.8

Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops

19556.2

I Dream of Jeanie

19524.0

Under Your Spell

19367.3

Has Anybody Seen My Gal?

19527.0

News Is Made at Night

19394.8

The Return of the Cisco Kid

19396.3

Meet the Baron

19335.3

City in Darkness

19396.5

Hello, Frisco, Hello

19436.4

Search for Beauty

19345.5

Six Gun Law

19627.0

The Women of Pitcairn Island

19564.2

Meet the Girls

19385.0

City Girl

19386.5

The Daring Young Man

193510.0

Battle of Broadway

19385.0

Hollywood Cavalcade

19396.2

Pardon Our Nerve

19398.0

King of Burlesque

19366.3

George White's 1935 Scandals

19357.0

Redheads on Parade

19359.0

Café Metropole

19377.3

This Is My Affair

19377.3

Spring Tonic

19356.5

Francis Joins the WACS

19546.1

Caravan

19346.5

Doubting Thomas

19357.5

Earthbound

19404.9

Pirate Party on Catalina Isle

19356.1

Sing, Baby, Sing

19366.0

Pack Up Your Troubles

19396.8

On the Loose

19516.6

I'd Climb the Highest Mountain

19516.7

Always Goodbye

19387.2

Professional Soldier

19355.7

Music in the Air

19345.6

Show Them No Mercy!

19357.5

The Magnificent Dope

19427.3

Handy Andy

19345.5

Home Sweet Homicide

19464.5

Screen Snapshots Series 21 No. 1

1941

I'll Give a Million

19386.1

Sleepers West

19416.4

Free, Blonde and 21

19407.3

Under Pressure

19355.2

Everybody's Old Man

19368.0

Orchestra Wives

19426.5

Pigskin Parade

19366.2

Pier 13

19405.7

Sunny Side of the Street

19518.0

Charter Pilot

19408.0

Take It or Leave It

19446.0

Bottoms Up

19345.2

City of Chance

19405.6

Thanks a Million

19356.5

Captain Eddie

19457.2

Sun Valley Serenade

19417.1

She Had to Eat

19375.6

I Am Suzanne!

19336.6

The Perfect Snob

19416.0

Coming Out Party

19346.0

Hotel for Women

19397.5

Trauma

19624.0

Lancer Spy

19376.0

On the Avenue

19377.2

The Man from Texas

19488.0

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

19446.3

The Night Before the Divorce

19425.6

The Young Runaways

19687.0

We Go Fast

19416.7

$10 Raise

19359.0

Damn Citizen

19588.0

Speed to Burn

19387.5

Tampico

19446.7

Wife, Doctor and Nurse

19377.0

Moon Over Her Shoulder

19417.0

Fair Warning

19377.3

Secret Agent of Japan

19425.5

Josette

19387.2

The Kid from Cleveland

19496.5

Sharpshooters

19388.0

365 Nights in Hollywood

19349.0

Sweet and Low-Down

19445.7

Chasing Danger

19398.0