Wendy Barrie
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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.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 2.304 |
Birthday | 1912-04-18 |
Place of Birth | Hong Kong, British Crown Colony [now China] |
Also Known As | Marguerite Wendy Jenkins, |
1954
It Should Happen to You
6.9/56
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It Should Happen to You
1939
The Hound of the Baskervilles
7.093/193
On his uncle's death Sir Henry Baskerville returns from Canada to take charge of his ancestral hall on the desolate moors of Devonshire, and finds tha...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
1937
Dead End
7/119
Mobster "Baby Face" Martin returns home to visit the New York neighborhood where he grew up, dropping in on his mother, who rejects him because of his...
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Dead End
1933
The Private Life of Henry VIII
6.3/75
Renowned for his excess, King Henry VIII goes through a series of wives during his rule. With Anne Boleyn, his second wife, executed on charges of tre...
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The Private Life of Henry VIII
1942
A Date with the Falcon
6.5/16
In the second film of the series (and not a second part of anything), Gay Lawrence, aka The Falcon, is about to depart the city to marry his fiancée,...
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A Date with the Falcon
1941
The Gay Falcon
6.2/21
Having forsaken the detective business for the safer confines of personal insurance, Gay Laurence is compelled to return to his sleuthing ways. Along...
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The Gay Falcon
1939
The Saint Strikes Back
5.615/13
Suave private detective Simon "The Saint" Templar arrives in San Francisco and meets Val, a woman whose police inspector father killed himself after b...
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The Saint Strikes Back
1939
Five Came Back
6.3/37
Twelve people are aboard Coast Airline's flagship the Silver Queen enroute to South America when the airplane encounters a storm and is blown off cour...
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Five Came Back
1943
Submarine Alert
4.6/8
Nazi spies use a stolen shortwave transmitter prototype to broadcast top secret shipping info to an offshore Japanese sub. To nab the spy ring, the Go...
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Submarine Alert
1939
Day-time Wife
6.3/15
When a young wife discovers her husband of two years is involved with his beautiful secretary, she applies for a job as secretary to a business rival.
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Day-time Wife
1940
The Saint Takes Over
6.3/11
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The Saint Takes Over
1941
The Saint In Palm Springs
5.7/9
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The Saint In Palm Springs
1942
Eyes of the Underworld
4/2
Blackmail and murder in a tale of an auto-theft ring.
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Eyes of the Underworld
1940
Men Against the Sky
4.4/5
A draftswoman, the sister of an aging, alcoholic pilot, secretly uses her brother's ideas to solve design problems for an experimental military plane...
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Men Against the Sky
1932
Wedding Rehearsal
4.6/5
The grandmother of a British nobleman, reluctant to marry, plays matchmaker. He outmaneuvers her by getting all of the matches married off .
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Wedding Rehearsal
1938
I Am the Law
6.6/8
With the aid of his former law students, a professor-turned-prosecutor battles corruption and organized crime.
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I Am the Law
1933
It's a Boy
0/0
"It's a Boy" stars Horton as Dudley Leake, who is betrothed to Mary Bogle (the very pretty Wendy Barrie). Shortly before the wedding, Dudley blurts a...
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It's a Boy
1936
Love on a Bet
7/2
Aspiring Producer Michael McCreigh convinces Uncle Carlton to finance a play on the condition that he lives the play's ridiculous plot. If Michael fai...
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Love on a Bet
1939
The Witness Vanishes
6.7/3
In this mystery, a newspaper executive and three of his colleagues conspire to have the owner of the highly-respected London Sun committed to an insan...
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The Witness Vanishes
1935
The Big Broadcast of 1936
5.4/7
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The Big Broadcast of 1936
1936
Speed
5.813/8
Terry is the chief car tester for Emery Motors and Frank is an Engineer. Jane has just been hired to work in publicity. Frank and Terry both want Jane...
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Speed
1933
Cash
4.5/6
A formerly wealthy man and his daughter try to regain wealth by selling a scheme to some investors, when they come upon a huge amount of unclaimed cas...
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Cash
1936
Ticket to Paradise
6/1
A man on his way to closing a million dollar deal has an accident and gets amnesia.
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Ticket to Paradise
1940
Who Killed Aunt Maggie?
4.3/3
When a much-despised matriarch is murdered, or apparently murdered, all of her relatives and "friends" fall under suspicion. Sheriff Gregory is the of...
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Who Killed Aunt Maggie?
1933
The House of Trent
0/0
It follows a doctor who faces both a scandal and a moral dilemma when a patient of his dies while he is making love to a press magnate's daughter.
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The House of Trent
1937
What Price Vengeance
5/1
A cop hesitates in using his gun to stop a robbery, & the robbers get away. He is forced to quit the police force, and he turns to a life of crime.
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What Price Vengeance
1935
A Feather in Her Hat
6.8/4
After the woman who raised him claims he's not her son, Richard searches for clues about his identity. Urged on by his mentor, Capt. Randolph Courtney...
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A Feather in Her Hat
1935
College Scandal
5.2/2
Julie Fresnel is a co-ed at Redgate University and her father, Dr. Henri Fresnel, is the new French professor. Julie attraction from the make students...
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College Scandal
1938
Newsboys' Home
6/1
A beautiful girl inherits a newspaper that sponsors a charity home for boys.
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1940
Women in War
3/2
A "good-time girl", raised by her somewhat lax divorced father, finds herself involved in an accidental death, and the only way she's able to get out...
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Women in War
1935
It's A Small World
4.5/2
Socialite, privileged, Jane Dale and lawyer Bill Shevlin meet in an automobile accident at night, on a dirt road, in a storm, near a hick town which...
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It's A Small World
1940
Cross-Country Romance
6.4/5
A runaway heiress hides in a doctor's trailer for a rollicking trip to San Francisco.
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Cross-Country Romance
1939
Pacific Liner
5.2/11
An outbreak of cholera threatens a luxury liner in this surprisingly low-budget melodrama from RKO. En route from Shanghai to San Francisco, chief eng...
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Pacific Liner
1941
Repent at Leisure
5.7/3
Everyone in a large department store knows that a rising star is married to the owner's daughter, except her husband.
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Repent at Leisure
1941
Gangs Of The City
0/0
Heiress Bonnie Parker, tired of newspaper stories about her society high-life, gives a false story to energetic reporter Bill Raymond, who has frequen...
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Gangs Of The City
1937
Wings Over Honolulu
0/0
A Navy pilot gets involved in a romantic triangle while stationed in Hawaii.
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Wings Over Honolulu
1934
Freedom of the Seas
0/0
George Smith, a mild-mannered clerk with a crush on his boss's daughter, is led astray by an old friend of his father. A midday sojourn to a public ba...
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Freedom of the Seas
1937
Prescription for Romance
0/0
In this romance, a detective teams up with a count and travels to Budapest in search of an embezzler. While there, the two get involved with a female...
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Prescription for Romance
1943
Follies Girl
0/0
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Follies Girl
1937
A Girl with Ideas
0/0
A rich banker's zany daughter gains control of a large newspaper.
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A Girl with Ideas
1943
Forever and a Day
7.2/8
In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble,...
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Forever and a Day
1932
The Barton Mystery
0/0
British crime film directed by Henry Edwards
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The Barton Mystery
1932
The Callbox Mystery
0/0
A British crime film directed by G.B. Samuelson.
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The Callbox Mystery
1932
Collision
0/0
Conniving con artist Mrs Oliver targets the family of Mrs Carruthers, seducing her husband and framing her son for the theft of a valuable necklace....
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Collision
1932
Where Is This Lady?
0/0
A British musical film directed by Victor Hanbury and Ladislao Vajda
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Where Is This Lady?
1933
This Acting Business
0/0
A British comedy film directed by John Daumery
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This Acting Business
1932
Threads
0/0
A British drama film directed by G.B. Samuelson
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Threads
1937
Breezing Home
0/0
Bookmakers try to fix a horse race.
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Breezing Home
1936
Under Your Spell
7/2
A famous singer, bored with music and fans, goes to live in Mexico. His manager sends a woman to bring him back. They fall in love.
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Under Your Spell
1935
Millions in the Air
0/0
A broadcasting musical.
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Millions in the Air
1936
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
6/1
Viewers are provided a visit to Ken Maynard's private circus; Bette Davis poses for her portrait; Frank McHugh plays with his children; a visit to the...
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Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
1934
Give Her a Ring
0/0
A telephonist falls for her employer.
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