Wendy Barrie Net Worth is
$14 Million

Mini Biography

Wendy Barrie was created in Hong Kong of English-Irish parentage, the daughter of King’s Counsel F.C. Jenkins. She received her education at a convent college in Britain and a completing college in Switzerland. After employed in a beauty parlour, she produced her initial foray into functioning on the London stage in “Question Club” (1930). 2 yrs afterwards, she was “uncovered” by manufacturer Alexander Korda while lunching on the Savoy Barbeque grill. After successful display screen testing, she was famously ensemble in the function of “Jane Seymour”, the next from the six wives on the centre from the Private Lifestyle of Henry VIII. (1933), starring Charles Laughton. Hollywood shortly beckoned and Wendy still left Britain for America in 1934. Through the following decade and a little, she discovered regular work at Paramount (1935), General (1936-38) and RKO (1938-42). A blonde, vivacious youthful woman with a particular innocent attraction and an instinctive performing ability, she was ensemble in ingenue jobs in minor movies, before grittier function of “Kay Burton” in the cultural drama Useless End (1937) arrived. Wendy’s film profession henceforth alternated between helping roles in larger pictures and network marketing leads in B-movies. From the later 1930s, she had more varied outings: being a gangster’s moll in the crime melodrama I Am regulations (1938), being a airplane crash victim in Five RETURNED (1939), so that as “Beryl Stapleton”, Richard Greene’s love desire for The Hound from the Baskervilles (1939), with Basil Rathbone as “Sherlock Holmes”. From the 1940s, her celebrity had faded. This is partly because of bad promotion generated by her real-life part as mistress of notorious mobster Bugsy Siegel. Wendy was efficiently relegated to showing up in a variety of entries in “The Saint” and “Falcon” series at RKO, and, after several additional decidedly mediocre movies, began on an effective new profession as television sponsor of her personal pioneering talk display, Picture This (1948) (1948-50). Her calm, informal design brought her great recognition and plaudits from tv critics like Jack port Gould of the brand new York Occasions. Wendy’s other state to popularity was among the 1st celebrities to create television advertisements, famously with Revlon, in the $64,000 Issue. Through the 1960s, she also broadcast her very own radio interview present in the Biltmore Resort. She was positively involved in several charities and was recognized to attend as visitor loudspeaker at philanthropic features, freely offering of her period without remuneration. In the middle ’70s, Wendy experienced a heart stroke which affected her state of mind and she spent the final many years of her lifestyle at a medical house in Englewood, NJ, where she passed away in Feb 1978, aged 65.

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Quick Facts

Full Name	Wendy Barrie
Died	February 2, 1978, Englewood, New Jersey, United States
Profession	Actor
Spouse	David Meyer
Parents	F.C. Jenkins
Movies	The Hound of the Baskervilles, Dead End, Five Came Back, The Gay Falcon, The Saint in Palm Springs, It Should Happen to You, Submarine Alert, The Saint Strikes Back, A Date with the Falcon, The Saint Takes Over, The Big Broadcast of 1936, I Am The Law, Cross-Country Romance, Wings over Honolulu, Women in War, Men Against the Sky, A Feather in Her Hat, Under Your Spell, Ticket to Paradise, Freedom of the Seas, Speed, Pacific Liner, A Girl with Ideas, Public Enemies, Prescription for Romance, Eyes of the Underworld, Follies Girl, The Private Life of Henry VIII, Wedding Rehearsal, What Price Vengeance?, It's a Boy, It's a Small World, Love on a Bet, The House of Trent, Give Her a Ring, There Goes Susie, Murder at the Inn, The Man I Want, Who Killed Aunt Maggie?, College Scandal, The Witness Vanishes, Repent at Leisure, Millions in the Air, Cash, If I Were Rich, Breezing Home, Where Is This Lady?, The Moving Finger, For Love or Money, Without You, The Callbox Mystery
TV Shows	The Wendy Barrie Show, The Adventures of Oky Doky, Picture This