1912-04-18 ( 112 years old ) in Hong Kong, British Crown Colony [now China]
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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.
Movies
It Should Happen to You
1954-01-15
Submarine Alert
1943-06-28
Follies Girl
1943-06-26
Forever and a Day
1943-01-21
Eyes of the Underworld
1942-10-02
A Date with the Falcon
1942-01-16
Gangs Of The City
1941-10-30
The Gay Falcon
1941-10-24
Repent at Leisure
1941-04-04
The Saint In Palm Springs
1941-01-24
Who Killed Aunt Maggie?
1940-11-01
Men Against the Sky
1940-09-06
Cross-Country Romance
1940-07-12
The Saint Takes Over
1940-06-07
Women in War
1940-06-05
Day-time Wife
1939-11-24
The Witness Vanishes
1939-09-22
Five Came Back
1939-06-23
The Hound of the Baskervilles
1939-03-24
The Saint Strikes Back
1939-03-08
Pacific Liner
1939-01-06
Newsboys' Home
1938-12-24
I Am the Law
1938-08-25
Prescription for Romance
1937-12-12
A Girl with Ideas
1937-11-01
Dead End
1937-08-27
What Price Vengeance
1937-05-25
Wings Over Honolulu
1937-05-16
Breezing Home
1937-02-01
Under Your Spell
1936-11-06
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
1936-09-11
Ticket to Paradise
1936-06-24
Speed
1936-05-08
Love on a Bet
1936-03-06
Millions in the Air
1935-12-12
A Feather in Her Hat
1935-10-25
The Big Broadcast of 1936
1935-09-20
College Scandal
1935-06-21
It's A Small World
1935-04-12
There Goes Susie
1935-02-25
Freedom of the Seas
1934-06-12
Give Her a Ring
1934-06-11
It's a Boy
1934-06-07
This Acting Business
1933-12-19
The House of Trent
1933-12-01
Cash
1933-10-08
The Private Life of Henry VIII
1933-08-17
Where Is This Lady?
1932-11-17
The Barton Mystery
1932-11-01
Wedding Rehearsal
1932-10-01
Collision
1932-07-18
The Callbox Mystery
1932-03-29
Threads
1932-03-14
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