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