Lynn Bari
Acting • Born 1913-12-18 – Died 1989-11-20
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!"
Filmography
134 credits
City in Darkness
Movie • 1939
Marie Dubon
Shock
Movie • 1946
Nurse Elaine Jordan
Trauma
Movie • 1962
Helen Garrison
The Amazing Mr. X
Movie • 1948
Christine Faber
Orchestra Wives
Movie • 1942
Jaynie Stevens
Sun Valley Serenade
Movie • 1941
Vivian Dawn
Blood and Sand
Movie • 1941
Encarnacion
City of Chance
Movie • 1940
Julie Reynolds
The Falcon Takes Over
Movie • 1942
Ann Riordan
Nocturne
Movie • 1946
Frances Ransom
I'd Climb the Highest Mountain
Movie • 1951
Mrs. Billywith
China Girl
Movie • 1942
Captain Fifi
The Baroness and the Butler
Movie • 1938
Klari - Maid
Has Anybody Seen My Gal?
Movie • 1952
Harriet Blaisdell
Tampico
Movie • 1944
Katherine Hall
Mr. Moto's Gamble
Movie • 1938
Penny Kendall
King of Burlesque
Movie • 1936
Dancer (uncredited)
Sleepers West
Movie • 1941
Kay Bentley
Damn Citizen
Movie • 1958
Pat Noble
Under Your Spell
Movie • 1936
Airplane Passenger (uncredited)
I Dream of Jeanie
Movie • 1952
Mrs. McDowell
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Movie • 1944
Michaela Villegas
Margie
Movie • 1946
Miss Isabel Palmer
Pier 13
Movie • 1940
Sally Kelly
Home Sweet Homicide
Movie • 1946
Marian Carstairs
The Man from Texas
Movie • 1948
Charlie Jackson
The Perfect Snob
Movie • 1941
Chris Mason
The Gay Deception
Movie • 1935
Milk Fund Ball Attendee (uncredited)
Sweet and Low-Down
Movie • 1944
Pat Stirling
Screen Snapshots Series 21 No. 1
Movie • 1941
Self
On the Loose
Movie • 1951
Larry Lindsay
Lillian Russell
Movie • 1940
Edna McCauley
Kit Carson
Movie • 1940
Dolores Murphy
Hotel for Women
Movie • 1939
Barbara Hunter
Pack Up Your Troubles
Movie • 1939
Yvonne
$10 Raise
Movie • 1935
Secretary (uncredited)
The Young Runaways
Movie • 1968
Mrs. Donford
We Go Fast
Movie • 1941
Rose Coughlin
Battle of Broadway
Movie • 1938
Marjorie Clark
Always Goodbye
Movie • 1938
Jessica Reid
Crack-Up
Movie • 1936
Office Worker (uncredited)
Under Pressure
Movie • 1935
Blonde Brooklyn Girl (uncredited)
Charlie Chan in Paris
Movie • 1935
Club Patron (uncredited)
Dancing Lady
Movie • 1933
Chorus Girl (uncredited)
Music in the Air
Movie • 1934
Dancer (uncredited)
Search for Beauty
Movie • 1934
Beauty Contestant Entrant (uncredited)
Stand Up and Cheer!
Movie • 1934
White House Secretary / Chorine (uncredited)
David Harum
Movie • 1934
Young Townswoman (uncredited)
My Marriage
Movie • 1936
Pat
Woman-Wise
Movie • 1937
Secretary (uncredited)
Café Metropole
Movie • 1937
Patron at Sidewalk Café (uncredited)
The Magnificent Dope
Movie • 1942
Claire Harris
I'll Give a Million
Movie • 1938
Cecelia
Ladies in Love
Movie • 1936
Dress Shop Clerk (uncredited)
Sunny Side of the Street
Movie • 1951
Mary
Josette
Movie • 1938
Mrs. Elaine Dupree
Earthbound
Movie • 1940
Linda Reynolds
Love and Hisses
Movie • 1937
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Secret Agent of Japan
Movie • 1942
Kay Murdock
You Can't Have Everything
Movie • 1937
Girl in YWCA (uncredited)
I Am Suzanne!
Movie • 1933
Audience Member
Hollywood Cavalcade
Movie • 1939
Actress
36 Hours to Kill
Movie • 1936
Traveler
Music Is Magic
Movie • 1935
Theatre Cashier (uncredited)
Way Down East
Movie • 1935
Dancing Girl at Party (uncredited)
The Kid from Cleveland
Movie • 1949
Katherine Jackson
Bottoms Up
Movie • 1934
Chorine (uncredited)
On the Avenue
Movie • 1937
Mary Jackson (uncredited)
Caravan
Movie • 1934
Gypsy (Uncredited)
The Return of the Cisco Kid
Movie • 1939
Ann Carver
News Is Made at Night
Movie • 1939
Maxine Thomas
Hello, Frisco, Hello
Movie • 1943
Bernice Croft
Francis Joins the WACS
Movie • 1954
Louise Simpson
Meet the Baron
Movie • 1933
College Girl (uncredited)
Show Them No Mercy!
Movie • 1935
Crowd Scene Member (uncredited)
The Daring Young Man
Movie • 1935
Bridesmaid
Time Out for Romance
Movie • 1937
Bridesmaid
Chasing Danger
Movie • 1939
Renée Claire
Free, Blonde and 21
Movie • 1940
Carol Northrup
Charter Pilot
Movie • 1940
Marge Duncan
Speed to Burn
Movie • 1938
Marion Clark
Meet the Girls
Movie • 1938
Terry Wilson
Sharpshooters
Movie • 1938
Dianne Woodward
Pardon Our Nerve
Movie • 1939
Terry Wilson
Moon Over Her Shoulder
Movie • 1941
Susan Rossiter
This Is My Affair
Movie • 1937
Party Guest with Keller (uncredited)
The Night Before the Divorce
Movie • 1942
Lynn Nordyke
Captain Eddie
Movie • 1945
Adelaide Frost Rickenbacker
Love Is News
Movie • 1937
'Babe' - Switchboard Operator (uncredited)
Fair Warning
Movie • 1937
Counter girl
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
Movie • 1937
Party Girl
365 Nights in Hollywood
Movie • 1934
Showgirl (uncredited)
Sing, Baby, Sing
Movie • 1936
Hotel Telephone Operator
Thanks a Million
Movie • 1935
Phone Operator (uncredited)
Doubting Thomas
Movie • 1935
Aspiring Actress
George White's 1935 Scandals
Movie • 1935
Chorine (uncredited)
Pigskin Parade
Movie • 1936
Football Game Spectator (uncredited)
Six Gun Law
Movie • 1962
Mrs. Simmons
Johnny Walker
Movie • 2015
Christine Faber (archive footage)
Redheads on Parade
Movie • 1935
Waitress (uncredited)
Walking Down Broadway
Movie • 1938
Sandra De Voe
Pirate Party on Catalina Isle
Movie • 1935
Girl on Sailboat (uncredited)
Lancer Spy
Movie • 1937
Miss Fenwick
Take It or Leave It
Movie • 1944
(archive footage) (uncredited)
She Had to Eat
Movie • 1937
Crowd Scene Participant (uncredited)
Coming Out Party
Movie • 1934
Party Guest
Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops
Movie • 1955
Leota Van Cleef
The Women of Pitcairn Island
Movie • 1956
Maimiti
Private Number
Movie • 1936
Gambler (Uncredited)
Spring Tonic
Movie • 1935
Bridesmaid
Handy Andy
Movie • 1934
Girl at Train Station (uncredited)
Everybody's Old Man
Movie • 1936
Secretary, Miss Burke
Professional Soldier
Movie • 1935
Gypsy Dancer
George White's 1935 Scandals
Movie • 1935
Chorine
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
TV • 1966
Miss Twickum
The F.B.I.
TV • 1965
Belinda
Perry Mason
TV • 1957
Sylvia Cord
Everglades
TV • 1961
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Kay Plumber
The Aquanauts
TV • 1960
Ann Nincel
Climax!
TV • 1954
Mrs. Combie
Bronco
TV • 1958
Amy Biggs
Ben Casey
TV • 1961
Law of the Plainsman
TV • 1959
Constance Valeri
The New Breed
TV • 1961
Mrs. Grace
Boss Lady
TV • 1952
Gwen Allen
City Detective
TV • 1953
Michael Shayne
TV • 1960
Studio 57
TV • 1954
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Millie Drake
Science Fiction Theatre
TV • 1955
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Evelyn
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Anita Cooper
Perry Mason
TV • 1957
Ruth Duncan