The Lynn Bari Centennial
Actress Lynn Bari was born 100 years ago today in Roanoke, Virginia.
Lynn Bari was a striking actress who made any film in which she appeared more interesting. The majority of Bari's career was spent at 20th Century-Fox, where she appeared in a number of particular favorites, including SUN VALLEY SERENADE (1941), ORCHESTRA WIVES (1942), MARGIE (1946), and I'D CLIMB THE HIGHEST MOUNTAIN (1951).
Bari was dubbed by Pat Friday in SUN VALLEY SERENADE and ORCHESTRA WIVES; below is one of my favorite '40s film sequences, performing "At Last" with Ray Eberle and the Glenn Miller Orchestra in ORCHESTRA WIVES:
In 2010 Bear Manor Media published FOXY LADY: THE AUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY OF LYNN BARI by Jeff Gordon. It's on my wish list!
2014 Update: Additional reviews: THE PERFECT SNOB (1941) and NOCTURNE (1946).
2015 Update: New Lynn Bari film reviews: NEWS IS MADE AT NIGHT (1939), WE GO FAST (1941), HOME SWEET HOMICIDE (1946), and THE KID FROM CLEVELAND (1949).
2017 Update: Here's a review of CHASING DANGER (1939).
IMDb now lists Bari's birth year as 1917, incidentally.
Updates: Here are reviews of SWEET AND LOW-DOWN (1944), HAS ANYBODY SEEN MY GAL (1952) (also here), and FRANCIS JOINS THE WACS (1954).
2021 Update: IMDb now lists Bari's birth year as 1919!
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4 Comments:
Every year I make a video with all celebrities centennials. This year I was introduced to Lyn Bari while researching for the video, and liked her very much. What a beauty!
I'm in the editing phase and soon I'll publich the centennial video!
Kisses!
Would love to read the book on Lynn
Could not agree with you more about Lynn Bari, and while I am not at all convinced Orchestra Wives is a great picture, the At Last sequence most certainly is lovely. On a personal note, I met Ray Eberle while he was front his own orchestra in t948 or so. A grand guy. His daughter, Jan follows in her Dad's footsteps. She has a lovely CD available and a web ssssssite worth tracking down.
Follow up thought: I caught Sun Valley Serenade on TCM last evening. I always had warm thoughts about the picture and still do. John Payne, Tex Beneke, Glenn Miller and all with the exceptions of Sonja Henie and Milton Berle, I could really do without him, hold up really well. Kept hoping Payne and Bari would get together. And, of course, there is a lot not to like about Sonja Henie as a person.
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