Lynn Bari - Фильмы

Линн Бари (Маргарет Борн Schuyler Фишер, December 18, 1913 – November 20, 1989) was a film actress who specialized in playing знойная, statuesque man-killers in roughly 150 20th Century Fox films from the early 1930s, 1940s through the. Бари was one of 14 young women "launched on the trail of film stardom" 6 августа, 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, Бари had uncredited parts usually playing приемной 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 Спирит (1948). In B movies, Линн was cast as usually a villainess, notably Shock and Ноктюрн (оба в 1946). An exception was The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1944). During WWII, according to a survey taken of GIs, Бари was the second-most popular pinup girl after much the better-known Betty Grable. Бари s film career сошел с дистанции out in the early 1950s as she was approaching каждый 40-й день рождения, 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, драма, On the Loose, plus a number of supporting parts. Бари s last film appearance was as the mother of rebellious teenager Пэтти Маккормак 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 Lady Boss In 1955, Бари appeared in the episode "The Beautiful Miss X" Rod of Cameron'S syndicated crime drama City Detective. In 1960, she played female bandit Belle Starr debut in the episode "опасной Пассаж" of the NBC western Overland Trail series starring William Bendix and Doug McClure and with fellow guest star Robert J. Wilke as Коул Янгер. From July–September 1952, Бари starred in her own situation comedy, Lady Boss, a replacement for summer nbc'S Fireside Theater. She portrayed Гвен F. Allen, the beautiful top executive construction of a 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 все "other woman" roles, Бари once said, "I seem to be always a woman with a gun in her purse. I'M terrified of guns. I go from one to set the other shooting people and stealing мужья!