Acting
Lynn Bari
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!"
Filmography
Johnny Walker
Film · 2015
The Young Runaways
Film · 1968
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
Series · 1966
The F.B.I.
Series · 1965
Trauma
Film · 1962
Six Gun Law
Film · 1962
Everglades
Series · 1961
Ben Casey
Series · 1961
The New Breed
Series · 1961
The Aquanauts
Series · 1960
Michael Shayne
Series · 1960
Law of the Plainsman
Series · 1959
Damn Citizen
Film · 1958
Bronco
Series · 1958
Perry Mason
Series · 1957
Perry Mason
Series · 1957
The Women of Pitcairn Island
Film · 1956
Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops
Film · 1955
Science Fiction Theatre
Series · 1955
Francis Joins the WACS
Film · 1954
Climax!
Series · 1954
Studio 57
Series · 1954
City Detective
Series · 1953
Has Anybody Seen My Gal?
Film · 1952
I Dream of Jeanie
Film · 1952
Boss Lady
Series · 1952
I'd Climb the Highest Mountain
Film · 1951
On the Loose
Film · 1951
Sunny Side of the Street
Film · 1951
Lux Video Theatre
Series · 1950
Lux Video Theatre
Series · 1950
Lux Video Theatre
Series · 1950
Lux Video Theatre
Series · 1950
Detective's Wife
Series · 1950
The Kid from Cleveland
Film · 1949
The Amazing Mr. X
Film · 1948
The Man from Texas
Film · 1948
Shock
Film · 1946
Nocturne
Film · 1946
Margie
Film · 1946
Home Sweet Homicide
Film · 1946
Captain Eddie
Film · 1945
Tampico
Film · 1944
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Film · 1944
Sweet and Low-Down
Film · 1944
Take It or Leave It
Film · 1944
Hello, Frisco, Hello
Film · 1943
Orchestra Wives
Film · 1942
The Falcon Takes Over
Film · 1942
China Girl
Film · 1942
The Magnificent Dope
Film · 1942
Secret Agent of Japan
Film · 1942
The Night Before the Divorce
Film · 1942
Sun Valley Serenade
Film · 1941
Blood and Sand
Film · 1941
Sleepers West
Film · 1941
The Perfect Snob
Film · 1941
Screen Snapshots Series 21 No. 1
Film · 1941
We Go Fast
Film · 1941
Moon Over Her Shoulder
Film · 1941
City of Chance
Film · 1940
Pier 13
Film · 1940
Lillian Russell
Film · 1940
Kit Carson
Film · 1940
Earthbound
Film · 1940
Free, Blonde and 21
Film · 1940
Charter Pilot
Film · 1940
City in Darkness
Film · 1939
Hotel for Women
Film · 1939
Pack Up Your Troubles
Film · 1939
Hollywood Cavalcade
Film · 1939
The Return of the Cisco Kid
Film · 1939
News Is Made at Night
Film · 1939
Chasing Danger
Film · 1939
Pardon Our Nerve
Film · 1939
The Baroness and the Butler
Film · 1938
Mr. Moto's Gamble
Film · 1938
Battle of Broadway
Film · 1938
Always Goodbye
Film · 1938
I'll Give a Million
Film · 1938
Josette
Film · 1938
Speed to Burn
Film · 1938
Meet the Girls
Film · 1938
Sharpshooters
Film · 1938
Walking Down Broadway
Film · 1938
City Girl
Film · 1938
Woman-Wise
Film · 1937
Café Metropole
Film · 1937
Love and Hisses
Film · 1937
You Can't Have Everything
Film · 1937
On the Avenue
Film · 1937
Time Out for Romance
Film · 1937
This Is My Affair
Film · 1937
Love Is News
Film · 1937
Fair Warning
Film · 1937
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
Film · 1937
Lancer Spy
Film · 1937
She Had to Eat
Film · 1937
King of Burlesque
Film · 1936
Under Your Spell
Film · 1936
Crack-Up
Film · 1936
My Marriage
Film · 1936
Ladies in Love
Film · 1936
36 Hours to Kill
Film · 1936
Sing, Baby, Sing
Film · 1936
Pigskin Parade
Film · 1936
Private Number
Film · 1936
Everybody's Old Man
Film · 1936
The Gay Deception
Film · 1935
$10 Raise
Film · 1935
Under Pressure
Film · 1935
Charlie Chan in Paris
Film · 1935
Music Is Magic
Film · 1935
Way Down East
Film · 1935
Show Them No Mercy!
Film · 1935
The Daring Young Man
Film · 1935
Thanks a Million
Film · 1935
Doubting Thomas
Film · 1935
George White's 1935 Scandals
Film · 1935
Redheads on Parade
Film · 1935
Pirate Party on Catalina Isle
Film · 1935
Spring Tonic
Film · 1935
Professional Soldier
Film · 1935
George White's 1935 Scandals
Film · 1935
Search for Beauty
Film · 1934
David Harum
Film · 1934
Stand Up and Cheer!
Film · 1934
Music in the Air
Film · 1934
Bottoms Up
Film · 1934
Caravan
Film · 1934
365 Nights in Hollywood
Film · 1934
Coming Out Party
Film · 1934
Handy Andy
Film · 1934
Dancing Lady
Film · 1933
I Am Suzanne!
Film · 1933
Meet the Baron
Film · 1933