Patricia Barry
Biography: Patricia received her first break into acting very soon after she graduated from Stephens College in the mid 1940s. Almost immediately after graduating, she received a contract from Columbus Pictures. They recognized that she had the rare combination of beauty, grace and intelligence that would serve her well throughout her long and well-respected career. When she first signed with Colombia Pictures, she was known as Patricia White. A few years later, in the late 1940s, she met Philip Barry, Jr., who was to become her husband. Philip was a television producer/director and the son and namesake of the well-known playwright, Philip Barry. By 1950, Patricia began using her married name, Barry. Patricia and her husband Philip shared a long and happy marriage that only ended upon his death on May 16, 1998. During their marriage, they collaborated on several projects. Her husband Philip wrote and she acted in episodes of Matinee Theater in the late 1950s. Her husband also produced several television programs that she acted in. They include: The Alcoa Hour, a major dramatic TV series than ran from 1955-1957, a well-known TV horror film called Crowhaven Farm (1970) and two a made-for-TV biographies, First You Cry (1978), and Bogie (1980). Patricia Barry may well be one of the hardest working actresses of her time. She has performed over 130 movie and television roles to date.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: November 16, 1921
Deathday: October 11, 2016
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Known For
Send Me No Flowers
1964-10-14
Send Me No Flowers
Overview: At one of his many visits to his doctor, hypochondriac George Kimball mistakes a dying man's diagnosis for his own and believes he only has about two more weeks to live. Wanting to take care of his wife Judy, he doesn't tell her and tries to find her a new husband. When he finally does tell her, she quickly finds out he's not dying at all (while he doesn't) and she believes it's just a lame excuse to hide an affair, so she decides to leave him.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-10-14
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The Undercover Man
1949-03-21
The Undercover Man
Overview: Frank Warren is a treasury agent assigned to put an end to the activities of a powerful mob crime boss. Frank works undercover, posing as a criminal to seek information, but is frustrated when all he finds are terrified witnesses and corrupt police officers.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-21
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For Keeps
1988-01-15
For Keeps
Overview: Young high school couple Darcy Elliot and Stan Bobrucz are one year from graduation, with promising futures ahead of them. But their paths take a drastic turn when Darcy becomes pregnant. Unwilling to go through an abortion or an adoption — despite their parents' pleas — Darcy and Stan decide to sacrifice their college experiences and degrees in order to keep and raise the baby. After a quick marriage, the two realize it won't be as easy as they thought.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-15
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Crowhaven Farm
1970-11-24
Crowhaven Farm
Overview: A couple, Maggie and Ben Porter, inherit an old farmhouse and move in, hoping to reinvigorate their marriage. When they learn the home was occupied long ago by a woman who was executed for practicing witchcraft, Maggie begins to have nightmares about her.
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-11-24
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The Beast with Five Fingers
1947-02-08
The Beast with Five Fingers
Overview: Locals in an Italian village believe evil has taken over the estate of a recently deceased pianist where murder has taken place. The alleged killer: the pianist's severed hand.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-08
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The Great Gatsby
1958-06-26
The Great Gatsby
Overview: Adaptation of the 1925 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald for "Playhouse 90." A Midwesterner becomes fascinated with his wealthy neighbor, who obsesses over his lost love.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-06-26
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Riders of the Whistling Pines
1949-03-16
Riders of the Whistling Pines
Overview: While trailing Forest Ranger Charles Carter, who is suspected of permitting lumber man Henry Mitchell to cut restricted timber, Gene fires at a dangerous mountain lion and apparently kills Carter. Actually, Bill Wright, Mitchell's associate, killed Carter because the ranger had discovered tussock moth infestation in the forest, and if the infestation was not reported, the trees would die and have to be cut, thereby profiting Mitchell and Wright. In order to compensate the best he can, Gene sells his sportsman's camp and gives the money to Carter's daughter Helen . En route to Texas, Gene discovers the infestation and is assigned by the Forest Department to supervise the program of spraying the area with DDT from the air. After the first day of spraying, the DDT is blamed by furious stock men for the many animals found dead of poisoning.
Genres: Action Drama Music Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-16
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Cry Wolf
1947-08-19
Cry Wolf
Overview: A woman uncovers deadly secrets when she visits her late husband's family.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-19
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Pardon My Nightshirt
1956-11-22
Pardon My Nightshirt
Overview: Professor Clyde is on the lookout for a nightshirt bandit prowling the college campus.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-11-22
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Deception
1946-10-26
Deception
Overview: After marrying her long lost love, a pianist finds the relationship threatened by a wealthy composer who is besotted with her.
Genres: Drama Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-10-26
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Bogie
1980-03-04
Bogie
Overview: The Humphrey Bogart story from the early '30s until his death, covering the period as a struggling young actor through movie stardom and his marriages to Mayo Methot and Lauren Bacall.
Genres: Drama Romance History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-04
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The Tattooed Stranger
1950-02-09
The Tattooed Stranger
Overview: Detectives investigate the Central Park murder of a young woman with a Marine Corps tattoo.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-02-09
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Dear Heart
1965-03-07
Dear Heart
Overview: A lonely Ohio spinster hopes to find romance when she travels to New York City for a postmasters' convention.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-03-07
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Variety Girl
1947-08-29
Variety Girl
Overview: Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (a show-business charity) are woven into a framework about two hopeful young ladies who come to Hollywood, exchange identities, and cause comic confusion (with slapstick interludes) throughout the Paramount studio.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-29
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Safe at Home!
1962-04-13
Safe at Home!
Overview: A Florida boy (Bryan Russell) tells his Little League buddies that his father knows two New York Yankees (Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris).
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-04-13
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The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker
1971-08-19
The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker
Overview: A stockbroker is stuck in a dreary job and a marriage that's become a dull routine. To cope with the boredom and frustration, he resorts to voyeurism and extramarital love affairs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-08-19
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Humoresque
1947-01-25
Humoresque
Overview: A classical musician from a working class background is sidetracked by his love for a wealthy, neurotic socialite.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-01-25
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The End of August
1981-11-19
The End of August
Overview: In the turn of the century South, a woman feels unfulfilled by marriage and motherhood and has an affair with a younger man. Later, the woman leaves her family and tries to start a new life alone.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-11-19
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Twilight Zone: The Movie
1983-06-24
Twilight Zone: The Movie
Overview: An anthology film presenting remakes of three episodes from the "Twilight Zone" TV series—"Kick the Can", "It's a Good Life" and "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet"—and one original story, "Time Out."
Genres: Horror Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-06-24
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Kitten with a Whip
1964-11-04
Kitten with a Whip
Overview: Straitlaced senatorial hopeful David Stratton has no idea what he's in for when he arrives home from a trip to find sexy teen Jody curled up asleep in his daughter's bed. Soon, delinquent Jody is holding David -- and his plush suburban home -- hostage while she hides out from the cops and throws wild parties with her beatnik pals. David, terrified of scandal, agrees to drive Jody and her friends to Mexico, a decision he regrets when the ride gets out of control.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-11-04
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Blazing Across the Pecos
1948-07-01
Blazing Across the Pecos
Overview: This time the Durango Kid confronts an expert gambler.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-07-01
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A Cry for Love
1980-10-20
A Cry for Love
Overview: Divorcee Susan Blakely, with no alimony and two kids to support, begins turning to amphetamines. While at her lowest ebb, she meets an alcoholic and three-time loser in marriage -- who, incredibly, turns out to be the ideal man!
Genres: TV Movie Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-20
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The Girl on the Edge of Town
1981-04-04
The Girl on the Edge of Town
Overview: Patty Duke Astin received an Emmy nomination for her role as a mother whose teenage daughter learns she is pregnant thus bringing back memories of her own teenage years and mistakes.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-04-04
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Singin' Spurs
1948-09-22
Singin' Spurs
Overview: In order to help neighboring Indians irrigate their farms, the Hotshots plan to put on a fair for tourists. But first they need $2000 for an advertising campaign, and the only way they can get it is to borrow it from a wealthy local woman, who has made it clear that she won't give them the money until Hezzie marries her.
Genres: Music Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-22
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Trapped by Boston Blackie
1948-05-13
Trapped by Boston Blackie
Overview: Blackie is the natural suspect when an expensive pearl necklace is stolen while he is supposed to be guarding it.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-13
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Invasion of Privacy
1992-12-07
Invasion of Privacy
Overview: When a mentally imbalanced prisoner gets out on parole, he tracks down the journalist who interviewed him while he was behind bars and persuades her to hire him as an assistant. But when she denies his advances, he aims for her adolescent daughter. The girl thinks she can stave off his disturbing desires -- at least for a while. But her naïveté is no match for his perversity.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-07
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She Woke Up
1992-01-19
She Woke Up
Overview: A socialite comes out of a coma determined to identify her assailant who may be a family member with a motive to strike again.
Genres: Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-19
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Flat Feat
1948-06-24
Flat Feat
Overview: Sterling, a rookie cop, finds it hard to live up to the reputation his father, who was also a police officer, has.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-06-24
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Sammy, the Way-Out Seal
1962-10-28
Sammy, the Way-Out Seal
Overview: Two young brothers secretly bring home a seal from their summer vacation and try to hide it from Mom and Dad. Havoc ensues as Sammy's antics disrupt the quiet town of Gatesville and its unsuspecting residents.
Genres: Comedy Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-10-28
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Police Headquarters
1974-03-19
Police Headquarters
Overview: A police lieutenant’s routine Sunday afternoon is interrupted by the deaths of a hoodlum and a socialite.
Genres: Mystery Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-03-19
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Slightly French
1949-02-02
Slightly French
Overview: A film director, in bad standing with his studio, tries to turn a local carnival dancer into a "French" movie star and pass her off as his big new discovery.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-02
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The Wreck of the Hesperus
1948-02-04
The Wreck of the Hesperus
Overview: The story of an ex-sea captain who uses devious means to make his salvage company a success. Based on Longfellow's famous poem.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-04
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Dead Men Tell No Tales
1971-12-17
Dead Men Tell No Tales
Overview: A photographer is chased by professional killers who have mistaken him for the person they're really after.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-17
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Manhattan Angel
1949-03-17
Manhattan Angel
Overview: Gloria Cole and Eddie Swenson are working to keep an old fire house, now being used as a youth center, from being razed to make room for a new skyscraper in Manhattan.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-17
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The Jerk, Too
1984-01-06
The Jerk, Too
Overview: Navin Johnson heads to Los Angeles to attend the wedding of his pen pal, Marie. On the way, he runs across a gang of hobos whose leader, Diesel, takes him to Las Vegas after learning of his skills at poker.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-06
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Sea of Love
1989-09-15
Sea of Love
Overview: Seen-it-all New York detective Frank Keller is unsettled - he has done twenty years on the force and could retire, and he hasn't come to terms with his wife leaving him for a colleague. Joining up with an officer from another part of town to investigate a series of murders linked by the lonely hearts columns he finds he is getting seriously and possibly dangerously involved with Helen, one of the main suspects.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-15
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The Great American Beauty Contest
1973-02-13
The Great American Beauty Contest
Overview: The pursuit by America's loveliest girls for a coveted beauty crown is threatened by a scandal which implicates a judge, a former winner, and one of the five finalists.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-02-13
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First, You Cry
1978-11-08
First, You Cry
Overview: The story of television news correspondent Betty Rollin and her battle with breast cancer, and how her subsequent mastectomy changed her marriage, her philosophy and her entire life.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-11-08
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Her Life as a Man
1984-03-12
Her Life as a Man
Overview: To land a sportswriting job on a national magazine run by a chauvinistic editor, an aspiring female reporter convincingly disguises herself as a man to get the inside story.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-03-12
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When a Girl's Beautiful
1947-09-25
When a Girl's Beautiful
Overview: An advertising man has to come with "the perfect woman" for an ad campaign. He puts together a picture of a woman from a composite of several photos, to get an idea of the kind of woman he should look for. His boss sees it, thinks that it is an actual woman, and orders him to find her and use her in the campaign.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-09-25
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