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Wendy Barrie‌

Gender

Female

Birthday

calendar1912-04-18

Popularity

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Wendy Barrie

Hong Kong, British Crown Colony [now China]

Wendy Barrie

Hong Kong, British Crown Colony [now China]

Gender

Female

Birthday

calendar1912-04-18

Popularity

star3.9

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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.

Movie Credits

It Should Happen to You

It Should Happen to You‌
star6.9
calendar 1954

The Hound of the Baskervilles

The Hound of the Baskervilles‌
star7.1
calendar 1939

Dead End

Dead End‌
star7.0
calendar 1937

The Private Life of Henry VIII

The Private Life of Henry VIII‌
star6.3
calendar 1933

A Date with the Falcon

A Date with the Falcon‌
star6.5
calendar 1942

The Gay Falcon

The Gay Falcon‌
star6.2
calendar 1941

The Saint Strikes Back

The Saint Strikes Back‌
star5.6
calendar 1939

Five Came Back

Five Came Back‌
star6.3
calendar 1939

Submarine Alert

Submarine Alert‌
star4.6
calendar 1943

Day-time Wife

Day-time Wife‌
star6.3
calendar 1939

The Saint Takes Over

The Saint Takes Over‌
star6.3
calendar 1940

The Saint In Palm Springs

The Saint In Palm Springs‌
star5.7
calendar 1941

Eyes of the Underworld

Eyes of the Underworld‌
star4.0
calendar 1942

Men Against the Sky

Men Against the Sky‌
star4.4
calendar 1940

Wedding Rehearsal

Wedding Rehearsal‌
star4.6
calendar 1932

I Am the Law

I Am the Law‌
star6.6
calendar 1938

It's a Boy

It's a Boy‌
star0.0
calendar 1933

Love on a Bet

Love on a Bet‌
star7.0
calendar 1936

The Witness Vanishes

The Witness Vanishes‌
star6.7
calendar 1939

The Big Broadcast of 1936

The Big Broadcast of 1936‌
star5.4
calendar 1935

Speed

Speed‌
star5.8
calendar 1936

Cash

Cash‌
star4.5
calendar 1933

Ticket to Paradise

Ticket to Paradise‌
star6.0
calendar 1936

Who Killed Aunt Maggie?

Who Killed Aunt Maggie?‌
star4.3
calendar 1940

The House of Trent

The House of Trent‌
star0.0
calendar 1933

What Price Vengeance

What Price Vengeance‌
star5.0
calendar 1937

A Feather in Her Hat

A Feather in Her Hat‌
star6.8
calendar 1935

College Scandal

College Scandal‌
star5.2
calendar 1935

Newsboys' Home

Newsboys' Home‌
star6.0
calendar 1938

Women in War

Women in War‌
star3.0
calendar 1940

It's A Small World

It's A Small World‌
star4.5
calendar 1935

Cross-Country Romance

Cross-Country Romance‌
star6.4
calendar 1940

Pacific Liner

Pacific Liner‌
star5.2
calendar 1939

Repent at Leisure

Repent at Leisure‌
star5.7
calendar 1941

Gangs Of The City

Gangs Of The City‌
star0.0
calendar 1941

Wings Over Honolulu

Wings Over Honolulu‌
star0.0
calendar 1937

Freedom of the Seas

Freedom of the Seas‌
star0.0
calendar 1934

Prescription for Romance

Prescription for Romance‌
star0.0
calendar 1937

Follies Girl

Follies Girl‌
star0.0
calendar 1943

A Girl with Ideas

A Girl with Ideas‌
star0.0
calendar 1937

Forever and a Day

Forever and a Day‌
star7.2
calendar 1943

The Barton Mystery

The Barton Mystery‌
star0.0
calendar 1932

The Callbox Mystery

The Callbox Mystery‌
star0.0
calendar 1932

Collision

Collision‌
star0.0
calendar 1932

Where Is This Lady?

Where Is This Lady?‌
star0.0
calendar 1932

This Acting Business

This Acting Business‌
star0.0
calendar 1933

Threads

Threads‌
star0.0
calendar 1932

Breezing Home

Breezing Home‌
star0.0
calendar 1937

Under Your Spell

Under Your Spell‌
star7.0
calendar 1936

Millions in the Air

Millions in the Air‌
star0.0
calendar 1935

Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)

Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)‌
star6.0
calendar 1936

Give Her a Ring

Give Her a Ring‌
star0.0
calendar 1934

Tv Credits

Your Show of Shows

Your Show of Shows‌
star5.5
calendar 1950

What's My Line?

What's My Line?‌
star6.6
calendar 1950