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Wendy Barrie is a Actor British born on 18 april 1912 at Hong Kong (Chine)
Wendy Barrie (18 April 1912 – 2 February 1978) was an English actress who worked in British and American films.
À la télévision, Wendy Barrie collabore à dix séries, entre 1948 et 1962, année où elle se retire définitivement.
Au théâtre, elle joue une seule fois à Broadway (New York) en 1942, dans une pièce d'Emlyn Williams, The Morning Star.
Une étoile lui est dédiée sur le Walk of Fame d'Hollywood Boulevard.
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Birth name Marguerite Wendy Jenkins
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 18 april 1912 at Hong Kong (Chine)
Death 2 february 1978 (at 65 years) at Englewood (USA)
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 18 april 1912 at Hong Kong (Chine)
Death 2 february 1978 (at 65 years) at Englewood (USA)
Biography
La carrière de Wendy Barrie (pseudonyme choisi en hommage au personnage créé par J. M. Barrie ? — à confirmer —) au cinéma se partage entre une première période britannique (dix-sept films de 1932 à 1934) et une seconde période américaine (trente-sept films de 1935 — année où l'actrice s'installe définitivement aux États-Unis — à 1943). Deux de ses films les plus connus sont La Vie privée d'Henry VIII (film britannique de 1933, où elle est Jeanne Seymour, aux côtés de Charles Laughton, personnifiant Henry VIII) et Le Chien des Baskerville (film américain de 1939, premier d'une série cinématographique consacrée à Sherlock Holmes, avec Basil Rathbone dans le rôle du détective, Nigel Bruce jouant son comparse, le docteur Watson). Elle se retire du grand écran après un film de guerre (Submarine Alert) sorti en 1943, si l'on excepte un caméo dans son propre rôle, en 1954 (à l'occasion d'un film de George Cukor, Une femme qui s'affiche).À la télévision, Wendy Barrie collabore à dix séries, entre 1948 et 1962, année où elle se retire définitivement.
Au théâtre, elle joue une seule fois à Broadway (New York) en 1942, dans une pièce d'Emlyn Williams, The Morning Star.
Une étoile lui est dédiée sur le Walk of Fame d'Hollywood Boulevard.
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Summer Holiday (1963)
, 1h47Directed by Peter Yates
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Musical, Romance
Themes Transport films, Musical films, Road movies
Actors Cliff Richard, Lauri Peters, Melvyn Hayes, Una Stubbs, Jeremy Bulloch, Madge Ryan
Roles Shepherdess (as Wendy Barry)
Rating60%
The story concerns Don (Cliff Richard) and his friends (Hayes, Green and Bulloch) who are bus mechanics at the huge London Transport bus overhaul works in Aldenham, Hertfordshire. During a miserably wet British summer lunch break, Don arrives, having persuaded London Transport to lend him and his friends an AEC Regent III RT double-decker bus (and not a later Routemaster as often quoted). This they convert into a holiday caravan, which they drive across continental Europe, intending to reach the South of France. However, their eventual destination is Athens, Greece. On the way, they are joined by a trio of young women (Stubbs, Hart and Daryl) and a runaway singer (Lauri Peters), who initially pretends to be male, pursued by her mother (Ryan) and agent (Murton). The movie was a box-office hit, thus repeating the success of Cliff Richard's earlier film The Young Ones (1961).
It Should Happen to You (1954)
, 1h26Directed by George Cukor, Earl Bellamy
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Judy Holliday, Peter Lawford, Jack Lemmon, Michael O'Shea, Connie Gilchrist, Vaughn Taylor
Roles Guest Panelist
Rating71%
The script, by Garson Kanin, is about a naive young woman named Gladys Glover who yearns for fame. Strolling through Central Park, she meets a young handsome man named Pete Sheppard (Jack Lemmon). He is a maker of documentaries (apparently equipped only with a handheld 16mm camera). He is taking brief shots of people in the park. He films Gladys feeding pigeons and introduces himself.
Forever and a Day (1943)
, 1h44Directed by Cedric Hardwicke, Frank Lloyd, Victor Saville, Robert Stevenson, René Clair, Edmund Goulding, Herbert Wilcox
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Political films
Actors Kent Smith, George Kirby, Ruth Warrick, Merle Oberon, Ray Milland, Reginald Gardiner
Roles Edith Trimble-Pomfret
Rating68%
In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret (Kent Smith) is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble (Ruth Warrick), tries to dissuade him from selling by telling him the 140-year history of the place and the connections between the Trimble and Pomfret families.
Submarine Alert (1943)
, 1h6Directed by Frank McDonald
Origin USA
Genres War, Thriller, Action, Spy
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Richard Arlen, Wendy Barrie, Nils Asther, Roger Pryor, Abner Biberman, Marc Lawrence
Roles Ann Patterson
Rating53%
During World War II, with shipping being sunk by submarines and with an American scientist working on radio technology killed by Nazi spies, FBI agent G. B. Fleming (Roger Pryor) comes up with a plan to catch the Nazis. He believes that radio signals are alerting the Germans about ship movements. His plan is to fire all the local radio specialists, who likely will seek any employment, including working with the enemy. Tailing the jobless radio men will help the FBI find the Nazis.
A Date with the Falcon (1942)
, 1h3Directed by Irving Reis
Origin USA
Genres Crime
Actors George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, Allen Jenkins, James Gleason, Gladys Cooper, Fred Aldrich
Roles Helen Reed
Rating63%
Waldo Samson has discovered how to create cheap synthetic diamonds that are nearly identical to actual diamonds, as he demonstrates to diamond industry representatives and New York Police Detective Mike O'Hara. Samson only wishes to provide them for the American defense effort, but O'Hara insists on providing him with a police guard. However, ruthless criminals abduct him to gain his secret. O'Hara recruits a reluctant Gay Lawrence, known as the "Falcon", to search for him. Meanwhile, Helen Reed, the Falcon's fiancee, becomes increasingly frustrated as the crime solving interferes with her marriage plans.
The Gay Falcon (1941)
, 1h7Directed by Irving Reis
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Crime, Romance
Actors George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, Allen Jenkins, Gladys Cooper, Edward Brophy, Turhan Bey
Roles Helen Reed
Rating64%
Ladies' man and amateur crime solver Gay Lawrence (George Sanders), the "Gay Falcon", reluctantly agrees to give up both habits to mollify his fiancée, Elinor Benford (Nina Vale). He and his uncouth sidekick, Jonathan "Goldie" Locke (Allen Jenkins), become unenthusiastic stockbrokers. When Elinor asks him to attend a party given by Maxine Wood (Gladys Cooper) to mingle with potential clients, he refuses to go to that much trouble.
The Saint In Palm Springs (1941)
, 1h6Genres Drama, Crime
Actors George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, Jonathan Hale, Paul Guilfoyle (acteur, 1902-1961), Harry Shannon
Roles Elna Johnson
Rating61%
Sur la demande de son meilleur ennemi, l'inspecteur Henry Fernack, le Saint va à Palm Springs enquêter sur une histoire de contrebande de timbres.
Repent at Leisure (1941)
, 1h7Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Kent Taylor, Wendy Barrie, George Barbier, Nella Walker, Thurston Hall, Charles Lane
Roles Emily Baldwin
Rating56%
Gangs Of The City (1941)
Directed by Albert S. Rogell
Genres Drama, Comedy, Crime, Romance
Themes Gangster films
Actors Phillip Terry, Wendy Barrie, Edgar Kennedy, William Frawley, Marc Lawrence, Nana Bryant
Roles Bonnie Parker
Rating71%
Cross-Country Romance (1940)
, 1h8Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Gene Raymond, Wendy Barrie, Hedda Hopper, Billy Gilbert, Berton Churchill, G.P. Huntley
Roles Diane North
Rating58%
High-profile heiress Diane North (Wendy Barrie) stows away in the trailer of a bacteriologist Dr. Lawrence "Larry" Smith (Gene Raymond) to escape from her own wedding. Larry has to drive cross country to San Francisco to catch a ship to China, where he will work with an eminent expert on a cure for a serious disease. When he discovers his stowaway, Diane tells him she is poverty-stricken Maggie "Jonesy" Jones, making her way to a slightly less poor uncle. Larry tries to get rid of his passenger at every opportunity, but she falls in love and uses every wile to stay with him.
Men Against the Sky (1940)
, 1h15Directed by Leslie Goodwins
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Richard Dix, Kent Taylor, Edmund Lowe, Wendy Barrie, Granville Bates, Grant Withers
Roles Kay Mercedes
Rating56%
Phil Mercedes (Richard Dix), once a record-setting pilot, is now an aging alcoholic. As an air show performer, while inebriated, he crashes his stunt aircraft into a barn and is grounded for a year. His sister Kay (Wendy Barrie), his only means of support, hopes to land a job in the drafting department for Martin Ames (Kent Taylor), the chief engineer for Dan McLean (Edmund Lowe), an aircraft manufacturer.
The Saint Takes Over (1940)
, 1h9Origin USA
Genres Crime
Actors George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, Jonathan Hale, Paul Guilfoyle (acteur, 1902-1961), Morgan Conway, Cy Kendall
Roles Ruth Summers
Rating64%
On an ocean liner making its way to New York, Simon Templar (George Sanders), "the Saint", rescues a fellow passenger (Wendy Barrie) from card cheats, though she refuses to give him her name and is offended when he kisses her without invitation. He later sends the mysterious woman a rose corsage by way of apology.
Who Killed Aunt Maggie? (1940)
Directed by Arthur Lubin
Origin USA
Genres Crime
Actors John Hubbard, Wendy Barrie, Edgar Kennedy, Elizabeth Patterson, Onslow Stevens, Joyce Compton
Roles Sally Ambler
Rating68%
Women in War (1940)
, 1h11Directed by John H. Auer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Political films
Actors Elsie Janis, Wendy Barrie, Patric Knowles, Mae Clarke, Dennie Moore, Dorothy Peterson
Roles Pamela Starr
Rating58%
Socialite Pamela Starr meets Mr Tedford, an older man in a London night club. After he escorts her home he tries to enter her flat feeling he has deserved the right to sleep with her as he has paid for her entertainment. Pamela thrusts a £5 note in his hands as reimbursement and attempts to enter her room but Tedford won't let her. The spirited Pamela strikes the drunken Tedford sending him across the landing where he crashes through a railing over the stairwell sending Tedford to his death.
, 1h20Directed by Sidney Lanfield
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Horror, Crime
Themes Sherlock Holmes films, Buddy films, Children's films
Actors Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Lionel Atwill, Richard Greene, Wendy Barrie, John Carradine
Roles Beryl Stapleton
Rating73%
Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and Dr. John Watson (Nigel Bruce) receive a visit from Dr. James Mortimer (Lionel Atwill), who wishes to consult them before the arrival of Sir Henry Baskerville (Richard Greene), the last of the Baskervilles, heir to the Baskerville estate in Devonshire.