Lynn Bari
Known For: Acting
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: December 18, 1913
Day of Death: November 20, 1989 (76 years old)
Place of Birth: Roanoke, Virginia, USA
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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Actor Klari - Maid
The Baroness and the Butler
Actor Penny Kendall
Mr. Moto's Gamble
Actor Marjorie Clark
Battle of Broadway
Actor Jessica Reid
Always Goodbye
Actor Cecelia
I'll Give a Million
Actor Mrs. Elaine Dupree
Josette
Actor Marion Clark
Speed to Burn
Actor Terry Wilson
Meet the Girls
Actor Dianne Woodward
Sharpshooters
Actor Sandra De Voe
Walking Down Broadway
1937
Actor Secretary (uncredited)
Woman-Wise
Actor Patron at Sidewalk Café (uncredited)
Café Metropole
Actor Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Love and Hisses
Actor Girl in YWCA (uncredited)
You Can't Have Everything
Actor Mary Jackson (uncredited)
On the Avenue
Actor Bridesmaid
Time Out for Romance
Actor Party Guest with Keller (uncredited)
This Is My Affair
Actor 'Babe' - Switchboard Operator (uncredited)
Love Is News
Actor Counter girl
Fair Warning
Actor Party Girl
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
Actor Miss Fenwick
Lancer Spy
Actor Crowd Scene Participant (uncredited)
She Had to Eat
1936
Actor Dancer (uncredited)
King of Burlesque
Actor Airplane Passenger (uncredited)
Under Your Spell
Actor Office Worker (uncredited)
Crack-Up
Actor Pat
My Marriage
Actor Dress Shop Clerk (uncredited)
Ladies In Love
Actor Traveler
36 Hours to Kill
Actor Hotel Telephone Operator
Sing, Baby, Sing
Actor Football Game Spectator (uncredited)
Pigskin Parade
Actor Gambler (Uncredited)
Private Number
1935
Actor Milk Fund Ball Attendee (uncredited)
The Gay Deception
Actor Secretary (uncredited)
$10 Raise
Actor Blonde Brooklyn Girl (uncredited)
Under Pressure
Actor Club Patron (uncredited)
Charlie Chan in Paris
Actor Theatre Cashier (uncredited)
Music Is Magic
Actor Dancing Girl at Party (uncredited)
Way Down East
Actor Crowd Scene Member (uncredited)
Show Them No Mercy!
Actor Bridesmaid
The Daring Young Man
Actor Phone Operator (uncredited)
Thanks a Million
Actor Aspiring Actress
Doubting Thomas
Actor Chorine (uncredited)
George White's 1935 Scandals
Actor Waitress (uncredited)
Redheads on Parade
Actor Girl on Sailboat (uncredited)
Pirate Party on Catalina Isle
Actor Bridesmaid
Spring Tonic
1934
Actor Dancer (uncredited)
Music in the Air
Actor Beauty Contestant Entrant (uncredited)
Search for Beauty
Actor White House Secretary / Chorine (uncredited)
Stand Up and Cheer!
Actor Young Townswoman (uncredited)
David Harum
Actor Chorine (uncredited)
Bottoms Up
Actor Gypsy (Uncredited)
Caravan
Actor Showgirl (uncredited)
365 Nights in Hollywood
Actor Party Guest
Coming Out Party
Actor Girl at Train Station (uncredited)
Handy Andy
