Lynn Bari

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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!"

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  • wc Gender: Female
  • calendar_month Birth Date: 1913-12-18
  • event Death Date 1989-11-20
  • school Known for: Acting
  • star Popularity: 5.8
  • info Birth Place Roanoke, Virginia, USA
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6.4

City in Darkness

1939-11-15

5.9

Shock

1946-02-01

4

Trauma

1962-03-23

6.2

The Amazing Mr. X

1948-07-29

5.8

Orchestra Wives

1942-09-04

6.9

Sun Valley Serenade

1941-08-29

6.4

Blood and Sand

1941-05-30

5.2

City of Chance

1940-01-13

6

The Falcon Takes Over

1942-05-29

5.6

Nocturne

1946-10-29

6.6

I'd Climb the Highest Mountain

1951-02-17

5.4

China Girl

1942-12-09

5.2

The Baroness and the Butler

1938-02-18

6.7

Has Anybody Seen My Gal?

1952-06-25

5.5

Tampico

1944-04-10

6.3

Mr. Moto's Gamble

1938-04-07

5.9

King of Burlesque

1936-01-03

6.3

Sleepers West

1941-03-14

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Damn Citizen

1958-03-01

7

Under Your Spell

1936-11-06

3.6

I Dream of Jeanie

1952-06-15

6

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

1944-02-11

6.9

Margie

1946-10-15

5

Pier 13

1940-08-08

4.7

Home Sweet Homicide

1946-10-02

6

The Man from Texas

1948-03-06

6.3

The Perfect Snob

1941-12-19

6.6

The Gay Deception

1935-09-13

5.2

Sweet and Low-Down

1944-09-21

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Screen Snapshots Series 21 No. 1

1941-08-15

6

On the Loose

1951-09-28

6.1

Lillian Russell

1940-05-24

5.9

Kit Carson

1940-08-30

6

Hotel for Women

1939-08-03

6.2

Pack Up Your Troubles

1939-10-24

8

$10 Raise

1935-05-04

6

The Young Runaways

1968-09-11

6.2

We Go Fast

1941-09-19

4.2

Battle of Broadway

1938-04-22

6.8

Always Goodbye

1938-06-24

5.7

Crack-Up

1936-12-14

5

Under Pressure

1935-02-02

6.6

Charlie Chan in Paris

1935-01-21

7

Dancing Lady

1933-11-24

4.8

Music in the Air

1934-12-13

5.9

Search for Beauty

1934-02-02

4.8

Stand Up and Cheer!

1934-05-04

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David Harum

1934-03-02

5

My Marriage

1936-01-31

0

Woman-Wise

1937-01-22

6.9

Café Metropole

1937-04-28

7.2

The Magnificent Dope

1942-07-01

5.7

I'll Give a Million

1938-07-27

5.8

Ladies In Love

1936-10-09

6

Sunny Side of the Street

1951-09-01

6.7

Josette

1938-06-03

4.8

Earthbound

1940-06-06

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Love and Hisses

1937-12-21

4.5

Secret Agent of Japan

1942-04-03

5.7

You Can't Have Everything

1937-08-02

6.3

I Am Suzanne!

1933-12-25

5.1

Hollywood Cavalcade

1939-10-13

5.3

36 Hours to Kill

1936-07-24

4

Music Is Magic

1935-11-01

3

Way Down East

1935-10-25

5

The Kid from Cleveland

1949-09-05

4.3

Bottoms Up

1934-04-12

6.7

On the Avenue

1937-02-12

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Caravan

1934-12-30

5

The Return of the Cisco Kid

1939-04-28

4.5

News Is Made at Night

1939-07-20

6.2

Hello, Frisco, Hello

1943-03-26

6

Francis Joins the WACS

1954-07-30

4.3

Meet the Baron

1933-10-20

7

Show Them No Mercy!

1935-12-06

0

The Daring Young Man

1935-07-17

5.6

Time Out for Romance

1937-02-10

6

Chasing Danger

1939-05-05

8

Free, Blonde and 21

1940-03-28

6

Charter Pilot

1940-12-06

6

Speed to Burn

1938-06-07

4.5

Meet the Girls

1938-10-06

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Sharpshooters

1938-11-18

0

Pardon Our Nerve

1939-02-24

0

Moon Over Her Shoulder

1941-10-23

7.3

This Is My Affair

1937-05-28

5

The Night Before the Divorce

1942-03-06

6

Captain Eddie

1945-06-18

6

Love Is News

1937-02-26

6

Fair Warning

1937-03-05

4

Wife, Doctor and Nurse

1937-09-17

0

365 Nights in Hollywood

1934-12-11

5.7

Sing, Baby, Sing

1936-08-21

5.6

Thanks a Million

1935-11-13

7

Doubting Thomas

1935-07-10

4

George White's 1935 Scandals

1935-03-29

5.8

Pigskin Parade

1936-10-23

6.7

Six Gun Law

1962-12-01

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Johnny Walker

2015-05-13

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Redheads on Parade

1935-09-07

5.7

Walking Down Broadway

1938-03-11

5.6

Pirate Party on Catalina Isle

1935-11-20

6

Lancer Spy

1937-10-08

4

Take It or Leave It

1944-07-17

5

She Had to Eat

1937-07-02

5

Coming Out Party

1934-03-09

6.2

Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops

1955-02-02

3.5

The Women of Pitcairn Island

1956-12-01

6.4

Private Number

1936-06-05

5.3

Spring Tonic

1935-06-27

1

Handy Andy

1934-07-19

6.6

The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.

1966-09-13

5.5

The F.B.I.

1965-09-19

7.7

Perry Mason

1957-09-21

8.5

Everglades

1961-10-09

5.5

Lux Video Theatre

1950-10-02

5.5

The Aquanauts

1960-09-14

2.7

Climax!

1954-10-07

4.8

Bronco

1958-09-23

5.7

Ben Casey

1961-10-02

6

Law of the Plainsman

1959-10-01

7

The New Breed

1961-10-03

3.5

Boss Lady

1952-07-01

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City Detective

1953-09-07

5

Michael Shayne

1960-09-30

0

Studio 57

1954-09-21

5.5

Lux Video Theatre

1950-10-02

6.6

Science Fiction Theatre

1955-04-09

5.5

Lux Video Theatre

1950-10-02

5.5

Lux Video Theatre

1950-10-02

7.7

Perry Mason

1957-09-21