Wendy Barrie
Known for Acting · 55 credits
- Born
- 1912-04-18
- Died
- 1978-02-02
- Place of birth
- Hong Kong, British Crown Colony [now China]
- Also known as
- Marguerite Wendy Jenkins · Маргарита Венди Дженкинс
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.
Known For
TV Shows (2)
Movies (53)
Dead End
1937
as Kay
The Hound of the Baskervilles
1939
as Beryl Stapleton
Follies Girl
1943
as Anne Merriday
Five Came Back
1939
as Alice Melbourne
The Private Life of Henry VIII
1933
as Jane Seymour
It Should Happen to You
1954
as Guest Panelist
The Saint Takes Over
1940
as Ruth Summers
Wings Over Honolulu
1937
as Lauralee Curtis
What Price Vengeance
1937
as Polly Moore
College Scandal
1935
as Julie Fresnel
It's A Small World
1935
as Jane Dale
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
1936
as Self
The Gay Falcon
1941
as Helen Reed
The Saint In Palm Springs
1941
as Elna Johnson
The Saint Strikes Back
1939
as Valerie 'Val' Travers
Forever and a Day
1943
as Edith Trimble-Pomfret
Repent at Leisure
1941
as Emily Baldwin
Millions in the Air
1935
as Marion Keller
A Date with the Falcon
1942
as Helen Reed
Submarine Alert
1943
as Ann Patterson
Speed
1936
as Jane Mitchell
Women in War
1940
as Pamela Starr
A Feather in Her Hat
1935
as Pauline Anders
The Big Broadcast of 1936
1935
as Sue
I Am the Law
1938
as Frances 'Frankie' Ballou
Pacific Liner
1939
as Ann Grayson
Day-time Wife
1939
as Kitty Fraser
Under Your Spell
1936
as Cynthia Drexel
Ticket to Paradise
1936
as Jane Forbes
Eyes of the Underworld
1942
as Betty Standing
Cross-Country Romance
1940
as Diane North
Wedding Rehearsal
1932
as Lady Mary Rose Wroxbury
Men Against the Sky
1940
as Kay Mercedes
Cash
1933
as Lilian Gilbert
The Barton Mystery
1932
as Phyllis Grey
Love on a Bet
1936
as Paula Gilbert
Prescription for Romance
1937
as Valerie Wilson
Breezing Home
1937
as Gloria Lee
There Goes Susie
1935
as Madeleine Sarteaux
Newsboys' Home
1938
as Gwen Dutton
The House of Trent
1933
as Angela Fairdown
The Witness Vanishes
1939
as Joan Marplay
Who Killed Aunt Maggie?
1940
as Sally Ambler
Where Is This Lady?
1932
as Lucie Kleiner
It's a Boy
1934
as Mary Bogle
Threads
1932
as Olive Wynn
Freedom of the Seas
1934
as Phyllis Harcourt
This Acting Business
1933
as Joyce
A Girl with Ideas
1937
as Mary Morton
Gangs Of The City
1941
as Bonnie Parker
The Callbox Mystery
1932
as Iris Banner
Collision
1932
as Joyce Maynard
Give Her a Ring
1934
as Karen Svenson
About Wendy Barrie
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… With 55 credits spanning from 1932 to 1954, Wendy Barrie has appeared in 53 films and 2 TV shows.
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Most Popular Wendy Barrie Movies
- Dead End (1937) — as Kay
- The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939) — as Beryl Stapleton
- Follies Girl (1943) — as Anne Merriday
- Five Came Back (1939) — as Alice Melbourne
- The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933) — as Jane Seymour
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