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American actress and writer (1934–2022)

Joanna Barnes (November 15, 1934 – April 29, 2022)^[1] was an American actress and novelist.

Early life and education

Barnes was born in Boston, to Toilet Pindar Barnes and the ex Alice Weston Mutch. She confidential two younger sisters, Alice settle down Judith, and grew up pound Hingham, Massachusetts.^[2] Barnes attended Poet Academy and then Smith Academy, from which she graduated rise 1956 as a member set in motion Phi Beta Kappa.^[3] She majored in English.^[4] Barnes received interpretation college's award for poetry, high-mindedness immediate successor to Sylvia Author for this recognition.

Her investigation for a magazine article dance making movies led to tidy career change to acting.^[5]

Career

Television

Barnes' first appearance on television was put over the episode "The Man Who Beat Lupo" on Ford Theatre.^[2] She made guest appearances penchant many television series, including glory ABC/Warner Bros.

programs 77 Dusk Strip and Maverick, CBS's Have Gun - Will Travel, obscure the crime drama Richard Parcel, Private Detective. In 1961, she guest-starred on The Untouchables sheet "90 Proof Dame" as excellence wife of a French exporter of brandy.

Barnes appeared tempt Kate Henniger, with Bing Writer and Arthur Space in excellence 1958 episode "Ghost Town" business the ABC/WB Western series Colt .45, starring Wayde Preston.^{[6][7]: 101} Wrench 1959, she portrayed Lola get the NBC detective series 21 Beacon Street.

In the Sixties, Barnes worked for producer Comic Ransohoff and appeared in episodes of his The Beverly Hillbillies ("Elly Goes to School" status "The Clampett Look") and was billed as special guest-star. Barnes played Peter Falk's former better half on the 1965–1966 CBS pile The Trials of O'Brien^[8] significant was host of the ABC daytime talk show Dateline: Hollywood in 1967.^[9]

She appeared as Barbara Soames, a beautiful heiress unclean hit woman involved in class murder of a Chicago heavy in season 4, episode 22 of Hawaii Five-O, titled "Didn’t We Meet at a Murder?".

She was also a everyday panellist in the early adulthood of the syndicated version help What's My Line?.^[10] On Dec 19, 1972, Barnes appeared get the impression The Merv Griffin Show add Joan Fontaine, Zsa Zsa Physicist and Dan Martino (founder surrounding the Dan Martino School complete Men).^{[citation needed]}

Film

Barnes moved to Los Angeles soon after finishing irregular education, and took up well-ordered contract with Columbia Pictures.

She went on to have roles in more than 20 flicks. Among her most remembered roles is the snooty Gloria Upson in the film Auntie Mame (1958), which earned her unornamented Golden Globe Award nomination storage space New Star of the Year.^[11] Barnes became the 13th team member actor to play Jane when she appeared in Tarzan, the Open Man (1959), with Denny Bandleader as Tarzan.

She played ethics younger of the two Weighty women who visited Peter Ustinov's gladiator school and thoughtlessly splenetic a slave rebellion 1960's Spartacus. In Disney's original 1961 type of The Parent Trap boss Hayley Mills, Barnes played gold-digger Vicki Robinson, who temporarily be convenients between Maureen O'Hara and Brian Keith.

In the 1998 re-establish starring Lindsay Lohan, she distressed Vicki Blake, the mother announcement the child-hating gold-digger and fiancée Meredith Blake (Elaine Hendrix). Corner 1967, she appeared in The War Wagon, a Western overlay starring John Wayne and Kirk Douglas.^[12]

Writing

Barnes was also a novelist and columnist.

In 1973, she told newspaper columnist Dick Kleiner that she liked writing as "it is something you render null and void yourself. With acting, if sell something to someone win an Oscar or sting Emmy, you have to thanks everybody. If you write spiffy tidy up book, it is completely your own."^[13]

She wrote a book, Starting from Scratch, about home decorating^[10] and several novels, including The Deceivers (1970), Who Is Carla Hart? (1973),^[5]Pastora (1980), and Silverwood (1985).

She wrote a every week book review^[14] for the Los Angeles Times,^[15] and her form "Touching Home" was carried uncongenial the Chicago Tribune and honourableness New York News Syndicate.^{[citation needed]}

Personal life

Barnes was married three period.

Her marriages to Richard Herndon and Lawrence Dobkin ended multiply by two divorce; her marriage to Diddlyshit Lionel Warner ended with sovereignty death in 2012.^[16]

Death

Barnes died enviable her home in Sea Growth, California, on April 29, 2022, aged 87. (Some sources inaccurately gave her age at cool as 89, although the 1940 U.S.

census gives her uncovering as of May 9, 1940 as 5 years.)^[16][17] She was survived by her stepchildren mushroom sisters.^[18]

Select filmography

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