Lynn Bari Filmography

The F.B.I.: The Mechanized Accomplice

Synopsis: Rebelling against his old-world father Stefan (Will Kuluva), young Gus Kolner (played by future teen idol Bobby Sherman) runs away from home in the company of his "cool" new friend Spencer Lang (Andrew Prine). What Gus doesn't know is that Lang is a hardened criminal, who plans to kidnap the boy Read More

The F.B.I.: Line of Fire

Synopsis: Richard Macklin (Henry Silva), a criminal on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list, has managed to elude capture in a spectacular shootout in a hospital parking lot. Worse still, Macklin has taken nurse Carol Grant (Lynda Day) hostage--and he has no intention of ever setting her free. This episode marks a Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Fatal Fetish

Synopsis: In her third and final Perry Mason appearance, Fay Wray is incongruously cast as voodoo dancer Mignon Germaine, the mother of DA Hamilton Burger's new assistant Larry (played by future talkshow host Gary Collins). Though Burger (William Talman) tries to warn Larry that the young man's girlfriend Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Accosted Accountant

Synopsis: An otherwise peaceful lakeside resort is the scene of an angry confrontation between Edward Lewis (Richard Anderson) and his father-in-law B.K. Doran (Murray Matheson), with each man accusing the other of embezzling funds from the family business. Later on, Doran is stabbed to death, and Lewis is Read More

Trauma

Actors: John Conte, Lynn Bari, David Garner, Warren Kemmerling, Lorrie Richards

Synopsis: This psychological thriller concerns a woman who is witness to a murder and is traumatized by the event. Her horror over the event causes her to suppress the memory, losing all recollection of the death of the young female victim. The incident is purged from her mind for nearly six years as her Read More

Six Gun Law

Elfego Baca: Six-Gun Law

Synopsis: This western is a compilation of episodes from Walt Disney Presents. The title hero, is a pugilistic lawyer who fights for justice in Tombstone. There he gets involved with the case of an Englishman falsely accused of murder and with a rancher charged with a bank heist. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Read More

Elfego Baca: Attorney at Law

Synopsis: In the fifth episode of Walt Disney's ten-part miniseries Elfego Baca, gunslinger-turned-lawyer Baca (Robert Loggia) tackles his first big court case. Elfego must defend his old pal, reformed outlaw Fernando Bernal (Edward Colmans), who has been accused of robbing the Santa Fe bank. Former Read More

Damn Citizen

Actors: Keith Andes, Maggie Hayes, Gene Evans, Lynn Bari, Jeffrey Stone

Synopsis: This biographical drama, chronicles the patriotic exploits of World War II hero Colonel Francis C. Grevemberg, who fought a tough battle against crime and corruption in his home state, Louisiana. He got his chance to serve the state when he was appointed the superintendent of state police by the Read More

The Women of Pitcairn Island

Actors: James Craig, Lynn Bari, John Smith, Sue England

Synopsis: Original slated for release through United Artists, the Wisberg-Yarborough production Women of Pitcairn Island was ultimately distributed by 20th Century-Fox. The film purports to detail the aftermath of the mutiny on the Bounty in the late 18th century. When the last of the male mutineers dies Read More

Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops

Actors: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Fred Clark, Lynn Bari, "Slapsie Maxie" Rosenbloom, Mack Sennett, Hank Mann

Synopsis: The best thing that can be said about Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops is that it's better than the team's previous outing Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Set in 1912, the film casts Bud Abbott and Lou Costello as a couple of New Yorkers who are swindled out of their Read More

Francis Joins the Wacs

Actors: Donald O'Connor, Julie Adams, Chill Wills, Mamie van Doren, Lynn Bari

Synopsis: Francis Joins the WACS was the fifth in Universal's comedy series about a talking Army mule and his hapless human companion. Thanks to a bureaucratic snafu, ex-GI Peter Sterling (Donald O'Connor) is called into acitive duty and assigned to a WAC unit, headed by Major Simpson (Lynn Bari). It is Read More

Has Anybody Seen My Gal?

Actors: Piper Laurie, Rock Hudson, Charles Coburn, Lynn Bari

Synopsis: Douglas Sirk directed this frothy musical comedy set in the 1920s starring Charles Coburn as Samuel Fulton, an elderly man with a multi-million dollar fortune. With no family of his own to whom he can leave his money, Fulton is pondering what to do with his estate. Years ago, he was in love with a Read More

I Dream of Jeanie

Actors: Ray Middleton, Bill Shirley, Muriel Lawrence, Eileen Christy, Lynn Bari, Dick Simmons

Synopsis: The life of Stephen Foster, one of America's greatest and best-loved songwriters of the 19th century, sets the stage for this musical biography. Foster (Bill Shirley) is a shy bookkeeper who writes songs in his spare time. He is madly in love with Inez McDowell (Muriel Lawrence), but she isn't Read More

I'd Climb the Highest Mountain

Actors: Susan Hayward, William Lundigan, Rory Calhoun, Barbara Bates, Gene Lockhart

Synopsis: In this inspiring drama, William Thompson (William Lundigan) is a minister from the deep South who has recently married Mary Elizabeth (Susan Hayward), a woman from the city. William is assigned a new parish and moves with Mary Elizabeth to a small town in Georgia's Blue Ridge Mountains, where he Read More

On the Loose

Actors: Joan Evans, Melvyn Douglas, Lynn Bari, Robert Arthur, Hugh O'Brian

Synopsis: On the Loose was produced by the Filmakers Organization, consisting of producer Collier Young and director Ida Lupino (Mrs. Young at the time). Joan Evans stars as Jill Bradley, a teenager with an undeserved reputation as a "bad girl." No one -- not even her parents Melvyn Douglas and Lynn Bari Read More

Sunny Side of the Street

Actors: Frankie Laine, Billy Daniels, Terry Moore, Jerome Courtland

Synopsis: Pop-music favorites Frankie Laine and Billy Daniels head the cast of The Sunny Side of the Street. Terry Moore plays Betty Holloway, receptionist at a major TV station. Hoping to secure a break for her singer boyfriend Ted Mason (Jerome Courtland), Betty enlists the aid of Laine. Mason's career Read More

The Kid from Cleveland

Actors: George Brent, Lynn Bari, Russ Tamblyn, Tommy Cook, Ann Doran

Synopsis: The "kid" is Johnny Barrows (Russ Tamblyn), who runs away from his nasty stepfather and hits the streets of Cleveland. Seemingly destined to become a juvenile delinquent, Johnny is rescued by sportscaster Mike Jackson (George Brent). Making it his mission to put Johnny on the right path, Mike gets Read More

The Amazing Mr. X

Actors: Turhan Bey, Lynn Bari, Cathy O'Donnell, Richard Carlson, Donald Curtis

Synopsis: Also known as The Amazing Mr. X, The Spiritualist stars Turhan Bey as the title character, a mysterious mystic named Alexis. Making a comfortable living by fleecing the gullible wealthy, Alexis' latest target is grieving young widow Christine Faber (Lynn Bari). Hoping to communicate with her Read More

The Man from Texas

Actors: James Craig, Lynn Bari, Johnny Johnston, Una Merkel, Wallace Ford

Synopsis: Eagle-Lion studios inaugurated its new "big budget" western policy with 1948's The Man From Texas. James Craig stars as the El Paso Kid, who can't make up his mind whether to be an upstanding, decent citizen or a masked bandit. He continues to vacillate all through the picture, much to the dismay Read More

Margie

Actors: Lynn Bari, Vanessa Brown, Hobart Cavanaugh, Jeanne Crain, Esther Dale

Synopsis: Nostalgic and sweet, this tuneful comedy centers on a mother's reminiscence of her wild time as a 1920s teenage flapper. Margie is first seen fully grown telling her stories to her own teenage daughter. Back then, Margie was a typical adolescent, crazy about boys (especially those in raccoon Read More

Home Sweet Homicide

Actors: Peggy Ann Garner, Randolph Scott, Lynn Bari, Dean Stockwell, James Gleason

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Craig Rice, Home Sweet Homicide is a delightful blend of domestic comedy and murder mystery. Peggy Ann Garner, Dean Stockwell and Connie Marshall play Dinah, Archie and April Carstairs, the precocious offspring of widowed mystery writer Marian Carstairs (Lynn Bari). When a Read More

Nocturne

Actors: George Raft, Lynn Bari, Virginia Huston, Joseph Pevney, Myrna Dell

Synopsis: The moody mystery melodrama Nocturne was produced by longtime Alfred Hitchcock associate Joan Harrison. The film wastes no time getting started, with a caddish Hollywood composer (Edward Ashley) dropping dead right after the opening credits. The police think it's a suicide, but maverick lieutenent Read More

Shock!

Actors: Vincent Price, Lynn Bari, Anabel Shaw, Michael Dunne

Synopsis: In this thriller, psychiatrist Dr. Cross (Vincent Price) kills his wife and expects to get away with murder, until he discovers that the slaying was observed by a next-door neighbor, Janet Stewart (Anabel Shaw). As Janet attempts to convince her husband (Frank Latimore) of the doctor's dastardly Read More

Captain Eddie

Actors: Fred MacMurray, Lynn Bari, Charles Bickford, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Nolan

Synopsis: Famed WW1 aviator Eddie Rickenbacker once more entered the public's consciousness during WW2 when, while serving as an Air Force officer, he and several other pilots crashed into the Pacific. While the world anxiously awaited news of his fate, Rickenbacker and a handful of survivors floated for 19 Read More

Sweet and Lowdown

Actors: Benny Goodman Orchestra, Linda Darnell, Lynn Bari, Jack Oakie, James B. Cardwell

Synopsis: In this musical, a youthful trombonist is thrilled when he is allowed to play with Benny Goodman's Orchestra. Afterward he becomes insufferably egotistical and tries to start his own swing band. It's his girl friend's idea, and unfortunately he fails. He then returns to his old mill job. Read More

Tampico

Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Lynn Bari, Victor McLaglen, Robert Bailey, Marc Lawrence

Synopsis: Not to be confused with the 1971 film of the same name, this World War II espionage drama was the second to last film from German director Lothar Mendes and stars Edward G. Robinson as oil tanker captain Bart Manson. When Manson rescues the survivors of a torpedoed ship in the Gulf of Mexico, he Read More

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Actors: Lynn Bari, Akim Tamiroff, Francis Lederer, Alla Nazimova, Louis Calhern

Synopsis: First filmed in 1928, Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer-winning novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey is given a ponderous treatment in this 1944 remake. Like the novel, the film begins at the end, with the collapse of a rope bridge in 18th century Peru. The story then flashes back to the lives of the five Read More

Hello, Frisco, Hello

Actors: Alice Faye, John Payne, Jack Oakie, Lynn Bari, Laird Cregar

Synopsis: Though a lesser 20th Century-Fox musical, Hello, Frisco, Hello was one of the studio's most successful wartime efforts. John Payne plays Johnny Cornell, a sharp wheeler-dealer operating on the Barbary Coast at the turn of the century. With the help of his songstress girlfriend Trudy Evans (Alice Read More

Secret Agent of Japan

Actors: Preston S. Foster, Lynn Bari, Noel Madison, Janis Carter

Synopsis: Secret Agent of Japan sometimes looks like a B-grade "answer" to Warner Bros.' Casablanca, except that the answer was released several months before the question. The principal character is Roy Bonnell (Preston Foster), the cynical American owner of Shanghai nightclub. On the lam from a criminal Read More

China Girl

Actors: Gene Tierney, George Montgomery, Lynn Bari, Victor McLaglen, Alan Baxter

Synopsis: China Girl charts the exploits of two-fisted newsreel photographer Johnny Williams (George Montgomery), stationed in Burma and China in the early stage of WW II. Captured by the Japanese, he escapes from a concentration camp with the aid of beautiful, enigmatic "China Girl" Miss Young (Gene Tierney Read More

Orchestra Wives

Actors: George Montgomery, Ann Rutherford, Glenn Miller, Cesar Romero, Lynn Bari, Jackie Gleason

Synopsis: In his last screen appearance, bandleader Glenn Miller plays--are you sitting down?--a bandleader. The film's main plot involves small-town girl Ann Rutherford, who impulsively marries George Montgomery, a trumpeter in the Miller band. Rutherford soon finds that she isn't particularly suited for Read More

The Magnificent Dope

Actors: Henry Fonda, Don Ameche, Edward Everett Horton, George Barbier

Synopsis: In order to be permitted to appear in "prestige" items like Grapes of Wrath and The Ox-Bow Incident, Henry Fonda had to agree to appear in such inconsequential fluff as The Magnificent Dope. On its own terms, however, this gentle satire of the "Dale Carnegie" school of self-help is pretty funny. Read More

The Night Before the Divorce

Actors: Lynn Bari, Mary Beth Hughes, Joseph Allen, Jr., Nils Asther, Truman Bradley

Synopsis: The Night Before the Divorce is when Lynn Thorndike (Lynn Bari) seeks out her ex-husband George (Joseph Allen Jr.), begging for help. Lynn claims she is in trouble with cops, a contingency tied in with the murder of bandleader Victor Roselle (Nils Asther), whom she has been dating. George Read More

The Falcon Takes Over

Actors: George Sanders, Lynn Bari, James Gleason, Allen Jenkins, Helen Gilbert

Synopsis: The plot of the RKO Radio programmer The Falcon Takes Over will be instantly recognizable to anyone who has seen the 1944 Philip Marlowe mystery Murder My Sweet: indeed, both films were based on the same Raymond Chandler novel, Farewell My Lovely. It all begins when brutish prison escapee Moose Read More

Moon over Her Shoulder

Actors: Lynn Bari, John Sutton, Dan Dailey, Alan Mowbray, Leonard Carey

Synopsis: In this comedy, a popular radio marriage counselor tends to ignore his own advice and his wife to boot. One day, a handsome fellow sees the wife while on his boat and casually invites her to spend the day with him. She does, and they end up falling in love. This naturally disturbs her husband, who Read More

We Go Fast

Actors: Lynn Bari, Alan Curtis, Sheila Ryan, Don DeFore, Ernest Truex

Synopsis: This 20th Century-Fox programmer revolves around the misadventures of two not-overly-bright motorcycle patrolmen. Waitress Rose Coughlin (Lynn Bari) causes a rift between cycle cops Bob Brandon (Alan Curtis) and Herman Huff (Don Defore) when she falls in love with both. Rose then jilts the two of Read More

The Perfect Snob

Actors: Charlie Ruggles, Charlotte Greenwood, Lynn Bari, Cornel Wilde, Anthony Quinn

Synopsis: Ubiquitous 20th Century-Fox contractee Lynn Bari is the heroine of The Perfect Snob. Carefully raised by her social-climbing mother Martha (Charlotte Greenwood) to seek out a millionaire husband, debutante Chris Mason (Bari) throws herself at wealthy Freddie Browning (Alan Mowbray) during a Read More

Sun Valley Serenade

Actors: Sonja Henie, John Payne, Glenn Miller, Milton Berle, Lynn Bari

Synopsis: Skating star Sonja Henie and the Glenn Miller Orchestra share the spotlight in Sun Valley Serenade. Henie plays a Norwegian refugee adopted by band pianist John Payne, who mistakenly thought that the full-grown Miss Henie was a 10-year-old little girl. Payne's girlfriend, Lynn Bari, is a soloist Read More

Sleepers West

Actors: Lloyd Nolan, Lynn Bari, Mary Beth Hughes, Louis Jean Heydt, Edward S. Brophy

Synopsis: This second entry in 20th Century-Fox's "Michael Shayne" series was a remake of the 1932 Fox romantic drama Sleepers East. In the original, the detective character was peripheral, but this changed once Michael Shayne (Lloyd Nolan) was written in as the leading character. Dogged by persistent girl Read More

Blood and Sand

Actors: Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Rita Hayworth, Alla Nazimova, Anthony Quinn, J. Carrol Naish

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Vincente Blasco Ibanez, Blood and Sand is the beautifully rendered story of the rise and fall of a young, cocksure Spanish bullfighter, played by Tyrone Power. Working his way slowly up the ladder to success, Power achieves fame when he is praised to skies by fatuous, fickle Read More

Lillian Russell

Actors: Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Henry Fonda, Edward Arnold, Warren William

Synopsis: Lillian Russell is the sanitized musical biopic of the legendary (and much-married) 19th century musical comedy star. Discovered in 1880 by bandleader Tony Pastor (Leo Carrillo), Lillian Russell (Alice Faye) wastes no time rising to fame and fortune on the Broadway stage. Along the way, she Read More

Pier 13

Actors: Lynn Bari, Lloyd Nolan, Joan Valerie, Douglas Fowley, Chick Chandler

Synopsis: Pier 13 is a remake of the delightful Spencer Tracy-Joan Bennett vehicle Me and My Gal, which itself was a reworking of a 1922 silent picture. Wisecracking cop Danny Dolan (Lloyd Nolan) takes a liking to self-reliant waterfront waitress Sally Kelly (Lynn Bari), and the feeling is definitely Read More

Earthbound

Actors: Warner Baxter, Andrea Leeds, Lynn Bari, Charles Grapewin, Henry Wilcoxon

Synopsis: A remake of a 1920 Goldwyn production which starred Wyndham Standing and Naomi Childers, Earthbound top-bills Warner Baxter and Andrea Leeds as Nick and Ellen Desbrough. Murdered early on, Nick returns to earth in ghostly form to help his widow Ellen bring the killer to justice. It is giving away Read More

Kit Carson

Actors: Jon Hall, Lynn Bari, Dana Andrews, Harold Huber, Ward Bond

Synopsis: This typically economical Edward Small historical drama stars Jon Hall as legendary frontiersman Kit Carson. Wasting no time, the film gets off to an exciting start as Carson and his two saddle pals (Ward Bond and Harold Huber) are attacked by Indians. They manage to escape unscatched and make Read More

Free, Blonde and Twenty-One

Actors: Lynn Bari, Mary Beth Hughes, Joan Davis, Henry Wilcoxon, Robert Lowery

Synopsis: Free, Blonde and 21 was one of a handful of films directed by former leading man Ricardo Cortez. Two of 20th Century-Fox's busiest leading ladies, Mary Beth Hughes and Lynn Bari, head the cast of this soap opera-style yarn about life in a hotel catering to women. Hughes plays Jerry, a duplicitious Read More

City of Chance

Actors: Lynn Bari, C. Aubrey Smith, Donald Woods, Amanda Duff, June Gale

Synopsis: Former Latin Lover Ricardo Cortez directed this farfetched but fast-paced gambling melodrama in which girl reporter Julie Reynolds (Lynn Bari) attempts to infiltrate a crooked gaming establishment by pretending to be a naïve girl from Texas. Julie's plans go awry, however, when one of the owners Read More

Charter Pilot

Actors: Lloyd Nolan, Lynn Bari, Arleen Whelan, George Montgomery, Hobart Cavanaugh

Synopsis: The title character in Charter Pilot is King Morgan (Lloyd Nolan), who thinks nothing of taking life-threatening risks on a daily basis. When Morgan marries radio personality Marge Duncan (Lynn Bari), he accedes to her wishes and takes a desk job. Alas, he is unable to resist the call of the Read More

Hollywood Cavalcade

Actors: Alice Faye, Don Ameche, J. Edward Bromberg, Alan Curtis, Stuart Erwin

Synopsis: Hollywood Cavalcade was a fictionalized history of silent films and the growth of the movie industry. Don Ameche portrays a character based on equal portions of Mack Sennett and D. W. Griffith, while Alice Faye's silent star is an amalgam of Mabel Normand and Gloria Swanson. Ameche breaks into Read More

Chasing Danger

Actors: Preston S. Foster, Lynn Bari, Wally Vernon, Henry Wilcoxon, Joan Woodbury

Synopsis: Trouble follows an American photojournalist in Paris when he meets an exotic woman in Marseille. Initially he had come to France to chronicle an Arab rebellion masterminded by a jewel thief who was supposed to have died. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

News Is Made at Night

Actors: Preston S. Foster, Lynn Bari, Russell Gleason, George Barbier, Eddie Collins

Synopsis: Newspaper editor Steve Drum (Preston Foster) is willing to pull any dirty trick in the book to boost his rag's circulation. Drums's latest escapade is to blame a former criminal, now a respected politician, for a series of murders. Once the damage has been done, Drum puts on his "crusader" hat and Read More

Pack up Your Troubles

Actors: Jane Withers, The Ritz Brothers [Al, Jimmy, Harry], Lynn Bari, Joseph Schildkraut, Stanley Fields

Synopsis: In this comedy set during WW I, two crazy vaudevillians try their new act out on their agent. He thinks it is a real dud and the boys end up working as mule skinners in France. While there, they meet a French officer's American daughter. Mayhem ensues when they are mistaken German spies Read More

The Return of the Cisco Kid

Actors: Warner Baxter, Lynn Bari, Cesar Romero, Henry Hull, Kane Richmond

Synopsis: In this Mexican version of the popular southwestern series, Cisco barely escapes the deadly bullets of a firing squad. He later meets a lovely señorita and falls in love, but before he can dally romantically, he must first help her and her papa get back the money they were bilked out of. More Read More

Charlie Chan in City of Darkness

Actors: Sidney Toler, Richard Clarke, Harold Huber, Pedro de Cordoba

Synopsis: This timely entry in Fox's Charlie Chan series is set in Paris during the Munich Crisis of 1938. Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) arrives in the City of Light for a reunion with his war buddies, only to find those lights dimmed by a city-wide blackout. The murder victim this time out is munitions Read More

Pardon Our Nerve

Actors: Lynn Bari, June Gale, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, Michael Whalen, Edward S. Brophy

Synopsis: A sequel of sorts to 1938's Meet the Girls, Pardon Our Nerve stars as Lynn Bari and June Gale (replacing June Lang) as intrepid chorus girls Terry Wilson and Judy Davis. Unable to find any showbiz work, our heroines take jobs with a dating service. Before getting fired as usual, Terry and Judy Read More

Charlie Chan in the City of Darkness

Synopsis: In this episode of the popular detective series, Chan attends a WW I reunion in Paris. While catching up with his buddies, he gets entangled in the investigation of the murder of a munitions maker who sent arms to the other side. The film was created in response to the Munich crisis of 1938. At Read More

Hotel for Women

Actors: Ann Sothern, Linda Darnell, James Ellison, Jean Rogers, Lynn Bari

Synopsis: In this romance, a young woman journeys from Syracuse to New York to see her sweetheart, a prominent architect. She is bitterly disappointed to discover that he has lost interest in her. The residents of the women's hotel at which she stays offer the heartbroken lass words of encouragement. They Read More

Speed to Burn

Actors: Michael Whalen, Lynn Bari, Marvin Stephens, Henry Armetta, Chick Chandler

Synopsis: Horse racing provides the framework of this crime drama that centers on an orphan who has been raising a promising horse. The trouble begins when the trainer who employs him sells the beast to the police department and ends its racing career forever. The angry boy begins investigating and with the Read More

Josette

Actors: Don Amech