Lynn Bari
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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
Marie Dubon
City in Darkness
Nurse Elaine Jordan
Shock
Helen Garrison
Trauma
Christine Faber
The Amazing Mr. X
Jaynie Stevens
Orchestra Wives
Vivian Dawn
Sun Valley Serenade
Encarnacion
Blood and Sand
Julie Reynolds
City of Chance
Ann Riordan
The Falcon Takes Over
Frances Ransom
Nocturne
Mrs. Billywith
I'd Climb the Highest Mountain
Captain Fifi
China Girl
Klari - Maid
The Baroness and the Butler
Harriet Blaisdell
Has Anybody Seen My Gal?
Katherine Hall
Tampico
Penny Kendall
Mr. Moto's Gamble
Dancer (uncredited)
King of Burlesque
Kay Bentley
Sleepers West
Pat Noble
Damn Citizen
Airplane Passenger (uncredited)
Under Your Spell
Mrs. McDowell
I Dream of Jeanie
Michaela Villegas
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Miss Isabel Palmer
Margie
Sally Kelly
Pier 13
Marian Carstairs
Home Sweet Homicide
Charlie Jackson
The Man from Texas
Chris Mason
The Perfect Snob
Milk Fund Ball Attendee (uncredited)
The Gay Deception
Pat Stirling
Sweet and Low-Down
Self
Screen Snapshots Series 21 No. 1
Larry Lindsay
On the Loose
Edna McCauley
Lillian Russell
Dolores Murphy
Kit Carson
Barbara Hunter]
Hotel for Women
Yvonne
Pack Up Your Troubles
Secretary (uncredited)
$10 Raise
Mrs. Donford
The Young Runaways
Rose Coughlin
We Go Fast
Marjorie Clark
Battle of Broadway
Jessica Reid
Always Goodbye
Office Worker (uncredited)
Crack-Up
Blonde Brooklyn Girl (uncredited)
Under Pressure
Chorus Girl (uncredited)
Dancing Lady
Beauty Contestant Entrant (uncredited)
Search for Beauty
Young Townswoman (uncredited)
David Harum
White House Secretary / Chorine (uncredited)
Stand Up and Cheer!
Dancer (uncredited)
Music in the Air
Club Patron (uncredited)
Charlie Chan in Paris
Pat
My Marriage
Secretary (uncredited)
Woman-Wise
Patron at Sidewalk Café (uncredited)
Café Metropole
Claire Harris
The Magnificent Dope
Cecelia
I'll Give a Million
Dress Shop Clerk (uncredited)
Ladies in Love
Mary
Sunny Side of the Street
Mrs. Elaine Dupree
Josette
Linda Reynolds
Earthbound
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Love and Hisses
Kay Murdock
Secret Agent of Japan
Girl in YWCA (uncredited)
You Can't Have Everything
Audience Member
I Am Suzanne!
Actress
Hollywood Cavalcade
Traveler
36 Hours to Kill
Theatre Cashier (uncredited)
Music Is Magic
Dancing Girl at Party (uncredited)
Way Down East
Katherine Jackson
The Kid from Cleveland
Chorine (uncredited)
Bottoms Up
Mary Jackson (uncredited)
On the Avenue
Gypsy (Uncredited)
Caravan
Ann Carver
The Return of the Cisco Kid
Maxine Thomas
News Is Made at Night
Bernice Croft
Hello, Frisco, Hello
Louise Simpson
Francis Joins the WACS
College Girl (uncredited)
Meet the Baron
Crowd Scene Member (uncredited)
Show Them No Mercy!
Bridesmaid
The Daring Young Man
Bridesmaid
Time Out for Romance
Renée Claire
Chasing Danger
Carol Northrup
Free, Blonde and 21
Marge Duncan
Charter Pilot
Marion Clark
Speed to Burn
Terry Wilson
Meet the Girls
Terry Wilson
Pardon Our Nerve
Dianne Woodward
Sharpshooters
Susan Rossiter
Moon Over Her Shoulder
Party Guest with Keller (uncredited)
This Is My Affair
Lynn Nordyke
The Night Before the Divorce
Adelaide Frost Rickenbacker
Captain Eddie
'Babe' - Switchboard Operator (uncredited)
Love Is News
Counter girl
Fair Warning
Party Girl
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
Showgirl (uncredited)
365 Nights in Hollywood
Hotel Telephone Operator
Sing, Baby, Sing
Phone Operator (uncredited)
Thanks a Million
Aspiring Actress
Doubting Thomas
Chorine (uncredited)
George White's 1935 Scandals
Football Game Spectator (uncredited)
Pigskin Parade
Mrs. Simmons
Six Gun Law
Christine Faber (archive footage)
Johnny Walker
Waitress (uncredited)
Redheads on Parade
Sandra De Voe
Walking Down Broadway
Girl on Sailboat (uncredited)
Pirate Party on Catalina Isle
Miss Fenwick
Lancer Spy
(archive footage) (uncredited)
Take It or Leave It
Crowd Scene Participant (uncredited)
She Had to Eat
Party Guest
Coming Out Party
Leota Van Cleef
Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops
Maimiti
The Women of Pitcairn Island
Gambler (Uncredited)
Private Number
Bridesmaid
Spring Tonic
Girl at Train Station (uncredited)
Handy Andy
Secretary, Miss Burke
Everybody's Old Man
Gypsy Dancer
Professional Soldier
Chorine
George White's 1935 Scandals
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
114
Gender
Female
Birthday
1913-12-18
Place of Birth
Roanoke, Virginia, USA
Also Known As
Marjorie Bitzer