Lynn Bari
Acting
Born: December 18, 1913 · Roanoke, Virginia, USA
Died: November 20, 1989 (aged 75)
Highest Rated
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!"
Known for
Perry Mason
1957
Shock
1946
Blood and Sand
1941
The Amazing Mr. X
1948
Dancing Lady
1933
Hello, Frisco, Hello
1943
Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops
1955
Sun Valley Serenade
1941
The Falcon Takes Over
1942
Nocturne
1946
Has Anybody Seen My Gal?
1952
The F.B.I.
1965
Photos (3)
Movies (114)
Blood and Sand
Encarnacion
China Girl
Captain Fifi
The Baroness and the Butler
Klari - Maid
The Falcon Takes Over
Ann Riordan
Johnny Walker
Christine Faber (archive footage)
Hotel for Women
Barbara Hunter
Love Is News
'Babe' - Switchboard Operator (uncredited)
Secret Agent of Japan
Kay Murdock
The Gay Deception
Milk Fund Ball Attendee (uncredited)
Woman-Wise
Secretary (uncredited)
George White's 1935 Scandals
Chorine (uncredited)
George White's 1935 Scandals
Chorine
The Amazing Mr. X
Christine Faber
Crack-Up
Office Worker (uncredited)
Nocturne
Frances Ransom
Mr. Moto's Gamble
Penny Kendall
City Girl
Waitress (uncredited)
Margie
Miss Isabel Palmer
Has Anybody Seen My Gal?
Harriet Blaisdell
This Is My Affair
Party Guest with Keller (uncredited)
Kit Carson
Dolores Murphy
News Is Made at Night
Maxine Thomas
Dancing Lady
Chorus Girl (uncredited)
Way Down East
Dancing Girl at Party (uncredited)
Lillian Russell
Edna McCauley
Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops
Leota Van Cleef
Hollywood Cavalcade
Actress
Private Number
Gambler (Uncredited)
Sun Valley Serenade
Vivian Dawn
Meet the Baron
College Girl (uncredited)
Hello, Frisco, Hello
Bernice Croft
Ladies in Love
Dress Shop Clerk (uncredited)
My Marriage
Pat
Charlie Chan in Paris
Club Patron (uncredited)
Love and Hisses
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Everybody's Old Man
Secretary, Miss Burke
Captain Eddie
Adelaide Frost Rickenbacker
Stand Up and Cheer!
White House Secretary / Chorine (uncredited)
On the Avenue
Mary Jackson (uncredited)
David Harum
Young Townswoman (uncredited)
Home Sweet Homicide
Marian Carstairs
Damn Citizen
Pat Noble
Orchestra Wives
Jaynie Stevens
Music in the Air
Dancer (uncredited)
Redheads on Parade
Waitress (uncredited)
The Daring Young Man
Bridesmaid
I'll Give a Million
Cecelia
Charter Pilot
Marge Duncan
Pigskin Parade
Football Game Spectator (uncredited)
36 Hours to Kill
Traveler
Meet the Girls
Terry Wilson
I Dream of Jeanie
Mrs. McDowell
Bottoms Up
Chorine (uncredited)
Always Goodbye
Jessica Reid
Lancer Spy
Miss Fenwick
Under Your Spell
Airplane Passenger (uncredited)
Take It or Leave It
(archive footage) (uncredited)
The Perfect Snob
Chris Mason
Walking Down Broadway
Sandra De Voe
Time Out for Romance
Bridesmaid
You Can't Have Everything
Girl in YWCA (uncredited)
Pardon Our Nerve
Terry Wilson
Doubting Thomas
Aspiring Actress
Coming Out Party
Party Guest
City in Darkness
Marie Dubon
The Man from Texas
Charlie Jackson
Café Metropole
Patron at Sidewalk Café (uncredited)
City of Chance
Julie Reynolds
Caravan
Gypsy (Uncredited)
Shock
Elaine Jordan
Earthbound
Linda Reynolds
Under Pressure
Blonde Brooklyn Girl (uncredited)
Sunny Side of the Street
Mary
Music Is Magic
Theatre Cashier (uncredited)
The Young Runaways
Mrs. Donford
The Magnificent Dope
Claire Harris
Fair Warning
Counter girl
Josette
Mrs. Elaine Dupree
She Had to Eat
Crowd Scene Participant (uncredited)
Sing, Baby, Sing
Hotel Telephone Operator
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Michaela Villegas
Thanks a Million
Phone Operator (uncredited)
The Return of the Cisco Kid
Ann Carver
Spring Tonic
Bridesmaid
Moon Over Her Shoulder
Susan Rossiter
On the Loose
Larry Lindsay
I'd Climb the Highest Mountain
Mrs. Billywith
King of Burlesque
Dancer (uncredited)
Handy Andy
Girl at Train Station (uncredited)
Sleepers West
Kay Bentley
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
Party Girl
Professional Soldier
Gypsy Dancer
Six Gun Law
Mrs. Simmons
The Women of Pitcairn Island
Maimiti
We Go Fast
Rose Coughlin
Speed to Burn
Marion Clark
Tampico
Katherine Hall
Francis Joins the WACS
Louise Simpson
The Kid from Cleveland
Katherine Jackson
Sharpshooters
Dianne Woodward
Search for Beauty
Beauty Contestant Entrant (uncredited)
Show Them No Mercy!
Crowd Scene Member (uncredited)
Pack Up Your Troubles
Yvonne
Chasing Danger
Renée Claire
Free, Blonde and 21
Carol Northrup
Battle of Broadway
Marjorie Clark
$10 Raise
Secretary (uncredited)
Sweet and Low-Down
Pat Stirling
365 Nights in Hollywood
Showgirl (uncredited)
The Night Before the Divorce
Lynn Nordyke
Pirate Party on Catalina Isle
Girl on Sailboat (uncredited)
I Am Suzanne!
Audience Member
Pier 13
Sally Kelly
Trauma
Helen Garrison
TV Shows (16)
Perry Mason
Sylvia Cord · 1 eps
Perry Mason
Ruth Duncan · 1 eps
Climax!
Mrs. Combie · 1 eps
The F.B.I.
Belinda · 1 eps
Ben Casey
1 eps
Studio 57
1 eps
City Detective
2 eps
Bronco
Amy Biggs · 1 eps
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
Miss Twickum · 1 eps
Law of the Plainsman
Constance Valeri · 1 eps
Science Fiction Theatre
1 eps
The New Breed
Mrs. Grace · 1 eps
The Aquanauts
Ann Nincel · 1 eps
Everglades
1 eps
Michael Shayne
1 eps
Boss Lady
Gwen Allen · 12 eps
