Wendy Barrie

Actor

About

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Also Known As

Margaret Wendy Jenkins, Wendie Barrie

Birth Place

Hong Kong

Born

April 18, 1912

Died

February 02, 1978

Filmography

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It Should Happen to You (1954)

Forever and a Day (1943)

Sir Anthony Trimble-Pomfret's daughter

Submarine Alert (1943)

Eyes of the Underworld (1943)

Follies Girl (1943)

A Date with the Falcon (1942)

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Wedding Rehearsal (1932) -- (Movie Clip) He's Married Not Buried

Private Life Of Henry VIII (1934) -- (Movie Clip) Poor Anne Boleyn

Biography

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

It Should Happen to You (1954)

Forever and a Day (1943)

Sir Anthony Trimble-Pomfret's daughter

Submarine Alert (1943)

Eyes of the Underworld (1943)

Follies Girl (1943)

A Date with the Falcon (1942)

The Saint in Palm Springs (1941)

Repent at Leisure (1941)

The Gay Falcon (1941)

Public Enemies (1941)

The Saint Takes Over (1940)

Women in War (1940)

Cross-Country Romance (1940)

Who Killed Aunt Maggie? (1940)

Men Against the Sky (1940)

The Saint Strikes Back (1939)

Day-Time Wife (1939)

Kitty [Frazier]

The Witness Vanishes (1939)

Five Came Back (1939)

Alice Melbourne

Pacific Liner (1939)

The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)

Beryl Stapleton

Newsboys' Home (1938)

I Am the Law (1938)

Frankie [Francis] Ballou

What Price Vengeance (1937)

Prescription for Romance (1937)

Doctor Valerie Wilson

Wings over Honolulu (1937)

Lauralee Curtis

Dead End (1937)

Breezing Home (1937)

A Girl with Ideas (1937)

Love on a Bet (1936)

Jane [Emery, also known as Jane] Mitchell

Under Your Spell (1936)

Ticket to Paradise (1936)

The Big Broadcast of 1936 (1935)

A Feather in Her Hat (1935)

Millions in the Air (1935)

It's a Small World (1935)

College Scandal (1935)

It's a Boy (1934)

For Love or Money (1934)

Lillian Gilbert

The Private Life of Henry VIII (1934)

The Callbox Mystery (1932)

The Barton Mystery (1932)

Life Events

1930

London stage acting debut

1932

First film as actress

Videos

Wedding Rehearsal (1932) -- (Movie Clip) He's Married Not Buried First scene for Roland Young as Reggie, London society’s favorite best-man, first with the (running gag) Roxbury twins Mary Rose and Rose Mary (Wendy Barrie, Joan Gardner) then with his grandmother, secretary and friend (Kate Cutler, Merle Oberon in her first movie, Diana Napier), in Alexander Korda’s Wedding Rehearsal, 1932.

Private Life Of Henry VIII (1934) -- (Movie Clip) Poor Anne Boleyn The star (Charles Laughton) is not seen but much discussed, as producer-director Alexander Korda lets his nurse (Lady Tree) and attendants chatter, the current queen (Merle Oberon) awaiting the gleeful executioner (Gibb McLaughlin), opening The Private Life Of Henry VIII, 1934.

Speed (1936) -- (Movie Clip) -- Flesh Is Weak Usually popular test-driver Terry (James Stewart) is annoying other people's girlfriends (Patricia Wilder) at the company banquet because the new P-R girl Jane (Wendy Barrie) snubbed him, his pal Josephine (Una Merkel) offering counsel, in MGM's Speed, 1936.

Speed (1936) -- (Movie Clip) Modernized Confusion Test driver Terry (James Stewart, in his first top-billed role) is showing the new PR gal Jane (Wendy Barrie) around the plant, joined by his buddy, inventor-mechanic Gadget (Ted Healy) then getting big-footed by the bigger-shot engineer Frank (Weldon Heyburn), early in MGM’s Speed, 1936.

Speed (1936) -- (Movie Clip) -- Isn't The Driver Hurt? MGM creating auto industry ambiance using Chrysler facilities in Detroit for the action shots, Wendy Barrie, Weldon Heyburn and Ted Healy introduce themselves before James Stewart, as "Terry," in his first top-billed role, in the low-budget feature Speed, 1936.

Dead End (1937) -- (Movie Clip) The Mark Of The Squealer The gang (Billy Halop, Bobby Jordan, Huntz Hall, Leo Gorcey, Gabriel Dell) showing off for Baby Face (Humphrey Bogart), would-be architect Dave (Joel McCrea) panics as well-to-do Kay (Wendy Barrie) tries to visit, with director William Wyler’s famous cockroach shot, in Dead End, 1937.

Five Came Back (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Don't Argue! Shortly after the crash, worries in the control room, Pilot Bill (Chester Morris), Professor and Mrs. Spengler (C. Aubrey Smith, Elisabeth Risdon), convict Vasquez (Joseph Calleia), Peggy (Lucille Ball) and marshal Crimp (John Carradine) arguing, in John Farrow's Five Came Back, 1939.

Five Came Back (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Anything But Murder Part of director John Farrow's splendid opening, introducing first Patrick Knowles and Wendy Barrie, then Lucille Ball, C. Aubrey Smith and Elizabeth Risdon, co-pilot Kent Taylor, Allen Jenkins and young Casey Johnson, then pilot Chester Morris, leaving for Panama, in Five Came Back, 1939.

Dead End (1937) -- (Movie Clip) I'm Frightened Of Being Poor With “Dead End” kids (Billy Halop, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan) and gangster Baby Face (Humphrey Bogart) nearby, aspiring architect Dave (Joel McCrea) visits with his more affluent otherwise-committed girlfriend Kay (Wendy Barrie), in Samuel Goldwyn’s urban drama Dead End, 1937.

Men Against The Sky (1940) -- (Movie Clip) What Do They Want For A Buck? Introduced by a barker (Earle Hodgins), Richard Dix is hero Mercedes, an inebriate flier whose barnstorming days are about to end, impressive action, then visited by his dutiful sister (Wendy Barrie), opening RKO’s Men Against The Sky, 1940, screenplay by Nathanael West.

Men Against The Sky (1940) -- (Movie Clip) Toys In A Wind Tunnel Engineer Ames (Kent Taylor) is less discouraged than his boss (Edmund Lowe) by a wind tunnel test, and persuaded by his sketch artist Kay (Wendy Barrie) to consider plans he doesn’t know were drawn up by her disgraced ex-flier brother (Richard Dix), in Men Against The Sky, 1940.

Private Life Of Henry VIII (1934) -- (Movie Clip) I'm An Englishman Awaiting the beheading of his wife, Charles Laughton (title character) bullies minister Cromwell (Franklin Dyall) and aide Culpepper (Robert Donat), and summons her successor Lady Jane (Wendy Barrie), early in Alexander Korda’s The Private Life Of Henry VIII, 1934.

Dead End - (Original Trailer) A killer (Humphrey Bogart) returns to the mean streets that made him in William Wyler's Dead End (1937) co-starring Sylvia Sidney and Joel McCrea.

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