Lynn Bari

Also Known As: Marjorie Bitzer , Marjorie Schuyler Fisher

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!"

Department: Acting

Place of Birth: Roanoke, Virginia, USA

Adult: No

Birthday: December 18, 1913

Age: 111 years old

Gender: Female

Deathday: November 20, 1989

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Known For:

City in Darkness
Shock
Trauma
The Amazing Mr. X
Orchestra Wives
Sun Valley Serenade
Blood and Sand
City of Chance
The Falcon Takes Over
Nocturne
I'd Climb the Highest Mountain
China Girl
The Baroness and the Butler
Has Anybody Seen My Gal?
Tampico
Mr. Moto's Gamble
King of Burlesque
Sleepers West
Damn Citizen
Under Your Spell
I Dream of Jeanie
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Margie
Pier 13
Home Sweet Homicide
The Man from Texas
The Perfect Snob
The Gay Deception
Sweet and Low-Down
Screen Snapshots Series 21 No. 1
On the Loose
Lillian Russell
Kit Carson
Hotel for Women
Pack Up Your Troubles
$10 Raise
The Young Runaways
We Go Fast
Battle of Broadway
Always Goodbye
Crack-Up
Under Pressure
Charlie Chan in Paris
Dancing Lady
Music in the Air
Search for Beauty
Stand Up and Cheer!
David Harum
My Marriage
Woman-Wise
Café Metropole
The Magnificent Dope
I'll Give a Million
Ladies In Love
Sunny Side of the Street
Josette
Earthbound
Love and Hisses
Secret Agent of Japan
You Can't Have Everything
I Am Suzanne!
Hollywood Cavalcade
36 Hours to Kill
Music Is Magic
Way Down East
The Kid from Cleveland
Bottoms Up
On the Avenue
Caravan
The Return of the Cisco Kid
News Is Made at Night
Hello, Frisco, Hello
Francis Joins the WACS
Meet the Baron
Show Them No Mercy!
The Daring Young Man
Time Out for Romance
Chasing Danger
Free, Blonde and 21
Charter Pilot
Speed to Burn
Meet the Girls
Sharpshooters
Pardon Our Nerve
Moon Over Her Shoulder
This Is My Affair
The Night Before the Divorce
Captain Eddie
Love Is News
Fair Warning
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
365 Nights in Hollywood
Sing, Baby, Sing
Thanks a Million
Doubting Thomas
George White's 1935 Scandals
Pigskin Parade
Six Gun Law
Johnny Walker
Redheads on Parade
Walking Down Broadway
Pirate Party on Catalina Isle
Lancer Spy
Take It or Leave It
She Had to Eat
Coming Out Party
Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops
The Women of Pitcairn Island
Private Number
Spring Tonic
Handy Andy
Everybody's Old Man
Professional Soldier
George White's 1935 Scandals