1913-12-18 ( 111 years old ) in Roanoke, Virginia, USA
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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!"
Movies
Johnny Walker
2015-05-13
The Young Runaways
1968-09-11
Six Gun Law
1962-12-01
Trauma
1962-03-23
Damn Citizen
1958-03-01
The Women of Pitcairn Island
1956-12-01
Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops
1955-02-02
Francis Joins the WACS
1954-07-30
Has Anybody Seen My Gal?
1952-06-25
I Dream of Jeanie
1952-06-15
On the Loose
1951-09-28
Sunny Side of the Street
1951-09-01
I'd Climb the Highest Mountain
1951-02-17
The Kid from Cleveland
1949-09-05
The Amazing Mr. X
1948-07-29
The Man from Texas
1948-03-06
Nocturne
1946-10-29
Margie
1946-10-15
Home Sweet Homicide
1946-10-02
Shock
1946-02-01
Captain Eddie
1945-06-18
Sweet and Low-Down
1944-09-21
Take It or Leave It
1944-07-17
Tampico
1944-04-10
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
1944-02-11
Hello, Frisco, Hello
1943-03-26
China Girl
1942-12-09
Orchestra Wives
1942-09-04
The Magnificent Dope
1942-07-01
The Falcon Takes Over
1942-05-29
Secret Agent of Japan
1942-04-03
The Night Before the Divorce
1942-03-06
The Perfect Snob
1941-12-19
Moon Over Her Shoulder
1941-10-23
We Go Fast
1941-09-19
Sun Valley Serenade
1941-08-29
Screen Snapshots Series 21 No. 1
1941-08-15
Blood and Sand
1941-05-30
Sleepers West
1941-03-14
Charter Pilot
1940-12-06
Kit Carson
1940-08-30
Pier 13
1940-08-08
Earthbound
1940-06-06
Lillian Russell
1940-05-24
Free, Blonde and 21
1940-03-28
City of Chance
1940-01-13
City in Darkness
1939-11-15
Pack Up Your Troubles
1939-10-24
Hollywood Cavalcade
1939-10-13
Hotel for Women
1939-08-03
News Is Made at Night
1939-07-20
Chasing Danger
1939-05-05
The Return of the Cisco Kid
1939-04-28
Pardon Our Nerve
1939-02-24
Sharpshooters
1938-11-18
Meet the Girls
1938-10-06
I'll Give a Million
1938-07-27
Always Goodbye
1938-06-24
Speed to Burn
1938-06-07
Josette
1938-06-03
Battle of Broadway
1938-04-22
Mr. Moto's Gamble
1938-04-07
Walking Down Broadway
1938-03-11
The Baroness and the Butler
1938-02-18
Love and Hisses
1937-12-21
Lancer Spy
1937-10-08
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
1937-09-17
You Can't Have Everything
1937-08-02
She Had to Eat
1937-07-02
This Is My Affair
1937-05-28
Café Metropole
1937-04-28
Fair Warning
1937-03-05
Love Is News
1937-02-26
On the Avenue
1937-02-12
Time Out for Romance
1937-02-10
Woman-Wise
1937-01-22
Crack-Up
1936-12-14
Under Your Spell
1936-11-06
Pigskin Parade
1936-10-23
Ladies In Love
1936-10-09
Sing, Baby, Sing
1936-08-21
36 Hours to Kill
1936-07-24
Private Number
1936-06-05
Everybody's Old Man
1936-03-20
My Marriage
1936-01-31
King of Burlesque
1936-01-03
Professional Soldier
1935-12-27
Show Them No Mercy!
1935-12-06
Pirate Party on Catalina Isle
1935-11-20
Thanks a Million
1935-11-13
Music Is Magic
1935-11-01
Way Down East
1935-10-25
The Gay Deception
1935-09-13
Redheads on Parade
1935-09-07
The Daring Young Man
1935-07-17
Doubting Thomas
1935-07-10
Spring Tonic
1935-06-27
$10 Raise
1935-05-04
George White's 1935 Scandals
1935-03-29
Under Pressure
1935-02-02
Charlie Chan in Paris
1935-01-21
Caravan
1934-12-30
Music in the Air
1934-12-13
365 Nights in Hollywood
1934-12-11
Handy Andy
1934-07-19
Stand Up and Cheer!
1934-05-04
Bottoms Up
1934-04-12
Coming Out Party
1934-03-09
David Harum
1934-03-02
Search for Beauty
1934-02-02
I Am Suzanne!
1933-12-25
Dancing Lady
1933-11-24
Meet the Baron
1933-10-20
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