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Barbara Read was an actress who had a successful Hollywood career. Read kickstarted her acting career in various films such as the dramatic adaptation "Make Way For Tomorrow" (1937) with Victor Moore, the Bert Lahr comedy "Merry-Go-Round of 1938" (1937) and the Lewis Stone crime picture "The Man Who Cried Wolf" (1937). She also appeared in "The Mighty Treve" (1937). Her passion for a...

Filmography

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Coroner Creek (1948)

Key Witness (1947)

Death Valley (1946)

Behind the Mask (1946)

The Shadow Returns (1946)

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Three Smart Girls (1936) -- (Movie Clip) Universal's New Discovery

Three Smart Girls (1936) -- (Movie Clip) Are They Like You, Dear?

Biography

Barbara Read was an actress who had a successful Hollywood career. Read kickstarted her acting career in various films such as the dramatic adaptation "Make Way For Tomorrow" (1937) with Victor Moore, the Bert Lahr comedy "Merry-Go-Round of 1938" (1937) and the Lewis Stone crime picture "The Man Who Cried Wolf" (1937). She also appeared in "The Mighty Treve" (1937). Her passion for acting continued to her roles in projects like the drama "The Road Back" (1937) with John King, the musical comedy "Three Smart Girls" (1937) with Deanna Durbin and "Behind the Mask" (1946). Film continued to be her passion as she played roles in "The Missing Lady" (1946), the mystery "The Shadow Returns" (1946) with Kane Richmond and the western "Coroner Creek" (1948) with Randolph Scott. Read more recently wrote "Santabear's First Christmas" (ABC, 1986-87).

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

Coroner Creek (1948)

Key Witness (1947)

Death Valley (1946)

Behind the Mask (1946)

The Shadow Returns (1946)

The Missing Lady (1946)

Too Many Women (1942)

Rubber Racketeers (1942)

Married and in Love (1940)

Curtain Call (1940)

Helen Middleton

The Spellbinder (1939)

Sorority House (1939)

Midnight Intruder (1938)

Patricia Hammond

The Crime of Doctor Hallet (1938)

Claire Saunders

The Crime of Dr. Hallett (1938)

The Road Back (1937)

Merry-Go-Round of 1938 (1937)

Clarice Stockbridge

Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)

The Man Who Cried Wolf (1937)

The Mighty Treve (1937)

Three Smart Girls (1936)

Writer (TV Mini-Series)

Santabear's First Christmas (1986)

Life Events

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Three Smart Girls (1936) -- (Movie Clip) Universal's New Discovery Joining the credits, Universal quick to put the money on the screen, Deanna Durbin's first ever appearance, with cute sisters Nan Grey and Barbara Read, in a film the associate producer Joe Pasternak would remake 12 years later as Three Daring Daughters at MGM, Three Smart Girls, 1936.

Three Smart Girls (1936) -- (Movie Clip) Are They Like You, Dear? Penny, Kay and Joan (Deanna Durbin, Barbara Read, Nan Grey), who haven't seen their tycoon father (Charles Winninger) for ten years, have come from Europe to New York to stop him from marrying his gilrfriend (Binnie Barnes), in Universal's Three Smart Girls, 1936.

Three Smart Girls (1936) -- (Movie Clip) Someone To Care For Me Penny (Deanna Durbin), who, with older sisters (Nan Grey, Barbara Read) has come to New York to stop their long-separated tycoon father (Charles Winninger) from marrying his girlfriend, works in a song by Bronislau Kaper, Walter Jurmann and Gus Kahn, in Universal's Three Smart Girls, 1936.

Married And In Love -- (Movie Clip) Try Not To Look Bored New in town Leslie (Alan Marshal) and wife Helen (Barbara Yates), and his college flame Doris (Helen Vinson) with husband Paul (Patric Knowles), before and during their evening together, in Married And In Love, 1940.

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