1912-04-18 Hong Kong, British Crown Colony [now China]
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.
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It Should Happen to You | Guest Panelist | 1954-01-15 |
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Submarine Alert | Ann Patterson | 1943-06-28 |
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Follies Girl | Anne Merriday | 1943-06-26 |
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Forever and a Day | Edith Trimble-Pomfret | 1943-01-21 |
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Eyes of the Underworld | Betty Standing | 1942-10-02 |
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A Date with the Falcon | Helen Reed | 1942-01-16 |
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The Saint In Palm Springs | Elna Johnson | 1941-01-24 |
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Repent at Leisure | Emily Baldwin | 1941-04-04 |
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Gangs Of The City | Bonnie Parker | 1941-10-30 |
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The Gay Falcon | Helen Reed | 1941-10-24 |
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Cross-Country Romance | Diane North | 1940-07-12 |
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Women in War | Pamela Starr | 1940-06-05 |
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Men Against the Sky | Kay Mercedes | 1940-09-06 |
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The Saint Takes Over | Ruth Summers | 1940-06-07 |
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Who Killed Aunt Maggie? | Sally Ambler | 1940-11-01 |
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Pacific Liner | Ann Grayson | 1939-01-06 |
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The Hound of the Baskervilles | Beryl Stapleton | 1939-03-24 |
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Day-time Wife | Kitty Fraser | 1939-11-24 |
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The Witness Vanishes | Joan Marplay | 1939-09-22 |
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Five Came Back | Alice Melbourne | 1939-06-23 |
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The Saint Strikes Back | Valerie 'Val' Travers | 1939-03-08 |
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I Am the Law | Frances 'Frankie' Ballou | 1938-08-25 |
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Newsboys' Home | Gwen Dutton | 1938-12-24 |
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What Price Vengeance | Polly Moore | 1937-05-25 |
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A Girl with Ideas | Mary Morton | 1937-11-01 |
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Dead End | Kay | 1937-08-27 |
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Wings Over Honolulu | Lauralee Curtis | 1937-05-16 |
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Prescription for Romance | Valerie Wilson | 1937-12-12 |
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Breezing Home | Gloria Lee | 1937-02-01 |
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Love on a Bet | Paula Gilbert | 1936-03-06 |
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Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1) | Self | 1936-09-11 |
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Ticket to Paradise | Jane Forbes | 1936-06-24 |
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Under Your Spell | Cynthia Drexel | 1936-11-06 |
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Speed | Jane Mitchell | 1936-05-08 |
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There Goes Susie | Madeleine Sarteaux | 1935-02-25 |
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Millions in the Air | Marion Keller | 1935-12-12 |
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A Feather in Her Hat | Pauline Anders | 1935-10-25 |
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The Big Broadcast of 1936 | Sue | 1935-09-20 |
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College Scandal | Julie Fresnel | 1935-06-21 |
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It's A Small World | Jane Dale | 1935-04-12 |
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Freedom of the Seas | Phyllis Harcourt | 1934-06-12 |
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It's a Boy | Mary Bogle | 1934-06-07 |
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Give Her a Ring | Karen Svenson | 1934-06-11 |
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Cash | Lilian Gilbert | 1933-10-08 |
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The House of Trent | Angela Fairdown | 1933-12-01 |
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This Acting Business | Joyce | 1933-12-19 |
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The Private Life of Henry VIII | Jane Seymour | 1933-08-17 |
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Wedding Rehearsal | Lady Mary Rose Wroxbury | 1932-10-01 |
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Where Is This Lady? | Lucie Kleiner | 1932-11-17 |
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The Barton Mystery | Phyllis Grey | 1932-11-01 |
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The Callbox Mystery | Iris Banner | 1932-03-29 |
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Collision | Joyce Maynard | 1932-07-18 |
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Threads | Olive Wynn | 1932-03-14 |
