18 Facts About Lynn Bari

Lynn Bari's father was a successful auto sales manager who for many years worked for a Roanoke car dealership, Harper Motor.

Lynn Bari later recalled other children at school in Boston made life miserable for her brother and her, making constant fun of their obvious Southern accents.

Lynn Bari was enthusiastic when at the age of 13 she was told her stepfather had been reassigned to Los Angeles, where he later became the head of the Institute of Religious Science.

Sixteen year-old Lynn Bari was one of 14 young women "launched on the trail of film stardom" August 6,1935, when they each received a six-month contract with 20th Century Fox after spending 18 months in the company's training school.

In most of her early films Lynn Bari had uncredited parts usually playing receptionists or chorus girls.

In B movies, Lynn Bari was usually cast as a "man-killer", as in Orchestra Wives, or a villainess, notably Shock and Nocturne.

Lynn Bari portrayed the mother of a suicidal teenager in a 1951 drama On the Loose and a number of supporting parts.

Lynn Bari quickly took up the rising medium of television during the 1950s; she starred in the live television sitcom Detective's Wife, which ran during the summer of 1950.

In 1952, Lynn Bari starred in her own sitcom Boss Lady, a summer replacement for NBC's Fireside Theater.

Lynn Bari portrayed Gwen F Allen, the beautiful top executive of a construction firm.

In 1955, Lynn Bari appeared in the episode "The Beautiful Miss X" of Rod Cameron's City Detective.

Lynn Bari was a Republican, who supported Dwight Eisenhower during the 1952 presidential election.

In Foxy Lady, an authorized biography by film historian Jeff Gordon written from interviews conducted shortly before her death, Lynn Bari suggested that, despite a 35-year career with over 166 film and television roles, a more promising career was sabotaged by unresolved problems with her domineering, alcoholic mother and her three marriages.

Lynn Bari was married to agent Walter Kane, producer Sidney Luft, and psychiatrist Dr Nathan Rickles.

Lynn Bari's first child, a daughter with Luft, was born August 7,1945, in St John's Hospital in Santa Monica, California, but died the next day.

On November 20,1989, Lynn Bari was found dead in her home in Santa Monica, California, of an apparent heart attack.

Lynn Bari was cremated and her ashes scattered at sea.

Lynn Bari has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for movies at 6116 Hollywood Boulevard, and one for television at 6323 Hollywood Boulevard.