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Wendy Barrie
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Wendy Barrie
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1912-04-18,Hong Kong, British Crown Colony [now China]
Gender
Female
Biography
Wendy Barrie 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.

Filmography

It Should Happen to You

7.077

It Should Happen to You
1954-01-15

The Hound of the Baskervilles

7.128

The Hound of the Baskervilles
1939-03-24

7.057

Dead End
1937-08-27

The Private Life of Henry VIII

6.402

The Private Life of Henry VIII
1933-08-17

A Date with the Falcon

6.529

A Date with the Falcon
1942-01-16

6.333

The Gay Falcon
1941-10-24

The Saint Strikes Back

5.737

The Saint Strikes Back
1939-03-08

6.3

Five Came Back
1939-06-23

Submarine Alert

4.818

Submarine Alert
1943-06-28

5.972

Day-time Wife
1939-11-24

The Saint Takes Over

6.654

The Saint Takes Over
1940-06-07

The Saint In Palm Springs

6

The Saint In Palm Springs
1941-01-24

Eyes of the Underworld

5.6

Eyes of the Underworld
1942-10-02

Men Against the Sky

4.571

Men Against the Sky
1940-09-06

Wedding Rehearsal

5.5

Wedding Rehearsal
1932-10-01

7.136

I Am the Law
1938-08-25

10

It's a Boy
1934-06-07

7

Love on a Bet
1936-03-06

The Witness Vanishes

7

The Witness Vanishes
1939-09-22

The Big Broadcast of 1936

5.833

The Big Broadcast of 1936
1935-09-20

5.85

Speed
1936-05-08

4.875

Cash
1933-10-08

Ticket to Paradise

7.5

Ticket to Paradise
1936-06-24

Who Killed Aunt Maggie?

5.5

Who Killed Aunt Maggie?
1940-11-01

The House of Trent

7

The House of Trent
1933-12-01

What Price Vengeance

7

What Price Vengeance
1937-05-25

A Feather in Her Hat

7

A Feather in Her Hat
1935-10-25

College Scandal

6.833

College Scandal
1935-06-21

8

Newsboys' Home
1938-12-24

5.2

Women in War
1940-06-05

It's A Small World

6

It's A Small World
1935-04-12

Cross-Country Romance

6.667

Cross-Country Romance
1940-07-12

5.538

Pacific Liner
1939-01-06

Repent at Leisure

6.25

Repent at Leisure
1941-04-04

Gangs Of The City

7

Gangs Of The City
1941-10-30

Wings Over Honolulu

6.4

Wings Over Honolulu
1937-05-16

Freedom of the Seas

7

Freedom of the Seas
1934-06-12

Prescription for Romance

9

Prescription for Romance
1937-12-12

10

Follies Girl
1943-06-26

A Girl with Ideas

9

A Girl with Ideas
1937-11-01

Forever and a Day

7.5

Forever and a Day
1943-01-21

The Barton Mystery

7

The Barton Mystery
1932-11-01

The Callbox Mystery

9

The Callbox Mystery
1932-03-29

10

Collision
1932-07-18

Where Is This Lady?

9

Where Is This Lady?
1932-11-17

This Acting Business

8

This Acting Business
1933-12-19

7

Threads
1932-03-14

6

Breezing Home
1937-02-01

Under Your Spell

7.333

Under Your Spell
1936-11-06

Millions in the Air

10

Millions in the Air
1935-12-12

Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)

6

Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
1936-09-11

Give Her a Ring

9

Give Her a Ring
1934-06-11

There Goes Susie

8

There Goes Susie
1935-02-25

Your Show of Shows

7.25

Your Show of Shows
1950-02-25

What's My Line?

7.034

What's My Line?
1950-02-02