LYNN BARI BIOGRAPHY & FILMOGRAPHY:
Lynn Bari was born on December 18th, 1913 in Roanoke, Virginia with the birth name Margaret Schuyler Fisher. She became a well known World War II Pin-up model known as, "The Woo Woo Girl" and 'The Girl With the Million Dollar Figure'.
In 1926, her father passed away and her mother took her and her brother John to live in Boston. Her mother later re-married and the family relocated to California. She soon broke into the film industry, mostly working as an extra and later signed a contract with MGM.
Some of her early film roles included, "Meet the Baron" (1933) starring Jack Pearl, Jimmy Durante, Edna May Oliver, Zasu Pitts, Ted Healy and the Three Stooges, Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard, "Dante's Inferno" (1935) starring Spencer Tracy, Claire Trevor, Scotty Beckett, Rita Hayworth and Henry B. Walthall, "Lancer Spy" (1937) starring Dolores del Rio, George Sanders, Peter Lorre, Sig Ruman, Joseph Schildkraut, Luther Adler, Virginia Field and Lionel Atwill and "Always Goodbye" (1938) starring Barbara Stanwyck, Herbert Marshall, Cesar Romero, Franklin Pangborn, Ian Hunter and Binnie Barnes.
She also began working with Fox Studio's now that she had begun to make a name for herself in Hollywood. Some of her more substantial film roles included, "Return of the Cisco Kid" (1939) starring Warner Baxter, Cesar Romero, Henry Hull, Victor Kilian and Kane Richmond, "Pack Up Your Troubles" (1939) starring The Ritz Brothers, Jane Withers, Joseph Schildkraut, Stanley Fields and Leon Ames, "Hotel for Women" (1939) with Ann Sothern, Jean Rogers, James Ellison, Kay Aldridge, Linda Darnell and Sidney Blackmer, "Hollywood Cavalcade" (1939) starring Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Buster Keaton, James Finlayson, Al Jolson, J. Edward Bromberg, Jed Prouty, Stu Erwin and Alan Curtis, "Pier 13" (1940) with Lloyd Nolan and Joan Valerie, Douglas Fowley and Louis Jean Heydt, "Earthbound" (1940) co-starring Warner Baxter, Andrea Leeds, Charley Grapewin, Henry Wilcoxon and Pedro De Cordoba, "Kit Carson" (1940) starring Jon Hall, Dana Andrews, Ward Bond, Clayton Moore, Raymond Hatton and Stanley Andrews, "Sun Valley Serenade" (1941) co-starring Sonja Henie, John Payne, Glenn Miller, Dorothy Dandridge, Joan Davis and Milton Berle and "The Magnificent Dope" (1942) starring alongside Henry Fonda, Don Ameche, Frank Orth, Edward Everett Horton.
Although, she was being offered work in Hollywood, nothing was really showcasing her talent as an actress and she was never able to quite reach 'A' billing status. Other film roles she added to her resume were, "Shock" (1946) co-starring Vincent Price, Stephen Dunne and Reed Hadley, "I'd Climb the Highest Mountain" (1951) starring alongside Susan Hayward and William Lundigan with Rory Calhoun, Barbara Bates, Gene Lockhart and Alexander Knox, "Sunny Side of the Street" (1951) starring Frankie Laine, Billy Daniels, Jerome Courtland, Terry Moore and Toni Arden, "Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops" (1955) starring Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Mack Sennett, Fred Clark and Joe Besser, "Damn Citizen" (1958) starring Keith Andes, Maggie Hayes, Gene Evans and Edward Platt and her final film role in, "The Young Runaways" (1968) also starring Brooke Bundy, Kevin Coughlin, Patty McCormac, Lloyd Bochner, Dick Sargent, Richard Dreyfuss and Isabel Sanford.
She did also appear on a variety of television series such as, "Boss Lady", "Climax!", "Studio 57", "City Detectives", "Bronco", "Overland Trail", "The Red Skelton Hour", "Checkmate", "Ben Casey", "Perry Mason", "Death Valley Days" and "The FBI Stories".
She married three times throughout her lifetime, first to Walter Kane in 1939 and by 1943 this marriage came to an end. She then married Sidney Luft in 1943 and they had two children before this marriage ended in divorce in 1950. Her third and final husband was Dr. Nathan Rickles in 1955 however again by 1972, a third marriage was unsuccessful.
Lynn Bari passed away on November 20th, 1989 in Santa Barbara, California after suffering from a heart attack at the age of seventy five.
Filmography
1968 The Young Runaways
1967-1968 The F.B.I.
1967 The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
1966 Elfego Baca: Six Gun Law
1964-1965 Perry Mason
1964 Death Valley Days
1963 Ripcord
1962 Trauma
1961 Ben Casey
1961 Everglades
1961 The New Breed
1961 Checkmate
1961 Michael Shayne
1960 The Aquanauts
1960 Law of the Plainsman
1960 Overland Trail
1959 Bronco
1959 Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color
1958 The Red Skelton Hour
1958 Damn Citizen
1956 The Women of Pitcairn Island
1951-1956 Lux Video Theatre
1956 Climax!
1955-1956 Studio 57
1955 Screen Directors Playhouse
1955 Science Fiction Theatre
1954-1955 City Detective
1955 The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse
1955 Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops
1954 Francis Joins the WACS
1954 Viceroy Star Theatre
1953 Gruen Guild Theater
1953 The Ford Television Theatre
1952 Boss Lady
1952 The Schaefer Century Theatre
1952 Has Anybody Seen My Gal
1952 I Dream of Jeanie
1951 Sunny Side of the Street
1951 On the Loose
1951 Pulitzer Prize Playhouse
1951 I'd Climb the Highest Mountain
1951 The Bigelow Theatre
1950 Detective's Wife
1949 The Kid from Cleveland
1948 The Amazing Mr. X
1948 Man from Texa
1946 Nocturne
1946 Margie
1946 Home, Sweet Homicide
1946 Shock
1945 Captain Eddie
1944 Sweet and Low-Down
1944 Tampico
1944 The Bridge of San Luis Rey
1943 Hello Frisco, Hello
1942 China Girl
1942 Orchestra Wives
1942 The Magnificent Dope
1942 The Falcon Takes Over
1942 Secret Agent of Japan
1942 The Night Before the Divorce
1941 The Perfect Snob
1941 Moon Over Her Shoulder
1941 We Go Fast
1941 Sun Valley Serenade
1941 Blood and Sand
1941 Sleepers West
1940 Charter Pilot
1940 Kit Carson
1940 Pier 13
1940 Earthbound
1940 Lillian Russell
1940 Free, Blonde and 21
1940 City of Chance
1939 Charlie Chan in City in Darkness
1939 Pack Up Your Troubles
1939 Hollywood Cavalcade
1939 Hotel for Women
1939 News Is Made at Night
1939 Chasing Danger
1939 Return of the Cisco Kid
1939 Pardon Our Nerve
1938 Sharpshooters
1938 Meet the Girls
1938 I'll Give a Million
1938 Always Goodbye
1938 Speed to Burn
1938 Josette
1938 Battle of Broadway
1938 Mr. Moto's Gamble
1938 Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
1938 Walking Down Broadway
1938 The Baroness and the Butler
1938 City Girl
1937 Love and Hisses
1937 45 Fathers
1937 Ali Baba Goes to Town
1937 Lancer Spy
1937 Life Begins in College
1937 Wife, Doctor and Nurse
1937 Wake Up and Live
1937 You Can't Have Everything
1937 The Lady Escapes
1937 She Had to Eat
1937 Wee Willie Winkie
1937 Sing and Be Happy
1937 This Is My Affair
1937 Café Metropole
1937 Fair Warning
1937 Love Is News
1937 Time Out for Romance
1937 On the Avenue
1937 Woman-Wise
1936 Crack-Up
1936 Under Your Spell
1936 Pigskin Parade
1936 Fifteen Maiden Lane
1936 Ladies in Love
1936 Star for a Night
1936 Sing, Baby, Sing
1936 Girls' Dormitory
1936 36 Hours to Kill
1936 Poor Little Rich Girl
1936 Private Number
1936 Gentle Julia
1936 The Great Ziegfeld
1936 Everybody's Old Man
1936 Song and Dance Man
1936 It Had to Happen
1936 My Marriage
1936 King of Burlesque
1935 Professional Soldier
1935 Show Them No Mercy!
1935 The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
1935 Thanks a Million
1935 Music Is Magic
1935 Metropolitan
1935 Way Down East
1935 Charlie Chan in Shanghai
1935 The Gay Deception
1935 Ladies Love Danger
1935 Redheads on Parade
1935 Orchids to You
1935 Welcome Home
1935 Dante's Inferno
1935 Curly Top
1935 The Daring Young Man
1935 Doubting Thomas
1935 Spring Tonic
1935 $10 Raise
1935 George White's 1935 Scandals
1935 The Great Hotel Murder
1935 Under Pressure
1935 Charlie Chan in Paris
1934 Music in the Air
1934 365 Nights in Hollywood
1934 Caravan
1934 Handy Andy
1934 Stand Up and Cheer!
1934 Bottoms Up
1934 Coming-Out Party
1934 David Harum
1934 Search for Beauty
1933 I Am Suzanne!
1933 Dancing Lady
1933 Meet the Baron
