
Wendy Barrie
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Wendy Barrie (18 April 1912 – 2 February 1978) was a British actress who worked in British and American films.
Barrie was born in London to English parents. Her father, Francis Charles John Graigoe Jenkin KC (1883 – 1936), was an employee of Great Western (according to the 1901 census), who then joined the Royal Fusiliers in 1902. Her mother was Ellen McDonagh. Hollywood gave her a more exotic parentage with her father being a King's Counsel and her mother a Russian-Jewish actress who had performed in the world's first professional Yiddish-language theater troupe. She received her education at a convent school in England and a finishing school in Switzerland.
In 1932, Barrie made her screen debut in the film Threads, which was based upon a play. She went on to make a number of motion pictures for London Films under the Korda brothers, Alexander and Zoltan, the best known of which is 1933's The Private Life of Henry VIII, in which she portrayed Jane Seymour.
In 1934, she appeared in Freedom of the Seas and was contracted by Fox Film Corporation for a film directed by Scott Darling that was made in Britain. The following year, she moved to the United States and made her first Hollywood film for Fox opposite Spencer Tracy in the romantic comedy It's a Small World, followed by Under Your Spell with Lawrence Tibbett. Loaned to MGM, Barrie starred opposite James Stewart in the 1936 film Speed. In 1939 she starred with Richard Greene and Basil Rathbone in the 20th Century Fox version of The Hound of the Baskervilles, and with Lucille Ball in RKO's Five Came Back. During 1939 and the early 1940s, Barrie made several of The Saint and The Falcon mystery films with George Sanders. She made her final motion picture in 1954.
With the dawn of television, in the late 1940s, Barrie turned to roles in that medium.
In 1956, she had a disc jockey program, the Wendy Barrie Show, on WMGM in New York City. She also hosted a widely syndicated radio interview show into the mid-1960s.
After appearances in more than 15 films in Britain and more than 30 in Hollywood, Barrie's contribution to the industry was recognized with a motion pictures star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1708 Vine Street, near the corner of Hollywood and Vine. Her star was dedicated February 8, 1960.
Barrie became a naturalized American citizen in 1942. She was reportedly engaged to and had a daughter named Carolyn with the infamous gangster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, and at one time was married to textile manufacturer David L. Meyer.
She died in Englewood, New Jersey, in 1978, aged 65, following a stroke that had left her debilitated for several years. She was buried in the Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, New York.
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Credits
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Guest Panelist★ 6.9
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Your Show of Shows 1950★ 6.3
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What's My Line? 1950Self★ 6.9
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Submarine Alert 1943Ann Patterson★ 4.2
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Follies Girl 1943Anne Merriday★ NR
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Forever and a Day 1943Edith Trimble-Pomfret★ 7.4
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Betty Standing★ 4.8
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Helen Reed★ 6.5
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Gangs Of The City 1941Bonnie Parker★ NR
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The Gay Falcon 1941Helen Reed★ 6.2
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Repent at Leisure 1941Emily Baldwin★ 5.7
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Elna Johnson★ 5.7
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Sally Ambler★ 4.3
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Men Against the Sky 1940Kay Mercedes★ 4.4
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Diane North★ 6.4
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The Saint Takes Over 1940Ruth Summers★ 6.3
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Women in War 1940Pamela Starr★ 5.3
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Day-time Wife 1939Kitty Fraser★ 6.2
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The Witness Vanishes 1939Joan Marplay★ 6.3
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Five Came Back 1939Alice Melbourne★ 6.2
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Beryl Stapleton★ 7.1
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Valerie 'Val' Travers★ 5.6
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Pacific Liner 1939Ann Grayson★ 5.3
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Newsboys' Home 1938Gwen Dutton★ 6
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I Am the Law 1938Frances 'Frankie' Ballou★ 6.6
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Valerie Wilson★ NR
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A Girl with Ideas 1937Mary Morton★ NR
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Dead End 1937Kay★ 7
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What Price Vengeance 1937Polly Moore★ 5
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Wings Over Honolulu 1937Lauralee Curtis★ 5.5
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Breezing Home 1937Gloria Lee★ NR
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Under Your Spell 1936Cynthia Drexel★ 7
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Self★ 6
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Ticket to Paradise 1936Jane Forbes★ 6
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Speed 1936Jane Mitchell★ 5.8
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Love on a Bet 1936Paula Gilbert★ 7
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Millions in the Air 1935Marion Keller★ NR
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A Feather in Her Hat 1935Pauline Anders★ 6.8
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Sue★ 5.5
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College Scandal 1935Julie Fresnel★ 5.2
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It's A Small World 1935Jane Dale★ 4.5
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There Goes Susie 1935Madeleine Sarteaux★ NR
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Freedom of the Seas 1934Phyllis Harcourt★ NR
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Give Her a Ring 1934Karen Svenson★ NR
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It's a Boy 1934Mary Bogle★ NR
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This Acting Business 1933Joyce★ NR
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The House of Trent 1933Angela Fairdown★ NR
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Cash 1933Lilian Gilbert★ 4.6
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Jane Seymour★ 6.4
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Where Is This Lady? 1932Lucie Kleiner★ NR
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The Barton Mystery 1932Phyllis Grey★ NR
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Wedding Rehearsal 1932Lady Mary Rose Wroxbury★ 4.6
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Collision 1932Joyce Maynard★ NR
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The Callbox Mystery 1932Iris Banner★ NR
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Threads 1932Olive Wynn★ NR