Wendy Barrie Filmography

It Should Happen to You

Actors: Judy Holliday, Peter Lawford, Jack Lemmon, Michael O'Shea, Vaughan Taylor

Synopsis: Gladys Glover (Judy Holliday) is an unsuccessful model and actress who believes that a jolt of publicity will do her career a world of good. She gets that publicity by renting a billboard in the middle of Manhattan, emblazoned with her name and photograph. As a result, Gladys is showered with Read More

Forever and a Day

Actors: Brian Aherne, Merle Oberon, Ida Lupino, Gladys Cooper, C. Aubrey Smith, Claude Rains, Robert Cummings, Anna Neagle, Roland Young

Synopsis: The 80-star cast of Forever and a Day would certainly not have been feasible had not most of the actors and production people turned over their salaries to British war relief -- a point driven home during the lengthy opening credits by an unseen narrator. The true star of the film is a stately old Read More

Submarine Alert

Actors: Richard Arlen, Wendy Barrie, Nils Asther, Roger Pryor, Abner Biberman

Synopsis: The plot of the Pine-Thomas adventure quickie Submarine Alert is more than a little beholden to Hitchcock's The 39 Steps. Richard Arlen plays FBI radio engineer Lee Deerhold, who turns bitter and vindictive when he is abruptly fired. Actually, his termination was engineered by his FBI superiors Read More

Follies Girl

Actors: Wendy Barrie, Doris Nolan, Gordon Oliver, Anne Barrett, Arthur Pierson

Synopsis: Though Wendy Barrie never quite achieved stardom in A pictures, she could always count on top billing in Hollywood's B product. In PRC's Follies Girl, Barrie plays dress designer Anne Merriday, who becomes the object of middle-aged millionaire J. B. Hamlin's (J.C. Nugent) affections. To save his Read More

Eyes of the Underworld

Actors: Richard Dix, Wendy Barrie, Lon Chaney, Jr., Lloyd Corrigan, Don Porter, Billy Lee

Synopsis: Some unexpected casting choices distinguish this so-so Universal actioner. Richard Dix stars as police chief Richard Barry, whose present respectable veneer obscures the fact that he once served a prison sentence. When Barry is threatened with exposure by silky-smooth gangster functionary Thomas Read More

Repent at Leisure

Actors: Kent Taylor, Wendy Barrie, George Barbier, Thurston Hall, Charles Lane

Synopsis: In this romance, a wealthy young heiress marries an avaricious foreigner to please her father and then dreams of finding herself an all-American boy who falls in love her and not her fortune. Not surprisingly, her marriage falls apart and soon afterward, she falls in love with and marries a fellow Read More

A Date with the Falcon

Actors: George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, James Gleason, Allen Jenkins, Mona Maris

Synopsis: This second entry in RKO Radio's "Falcon" series begins with Gay Lawrence (George Sanders), aka the Falcon, promising to give up his private-eye activities for the sake of fiancee Helen Reed (Wendy Barrie). This resolves lasts for about eight minutes, whereupon Lawrence tackles the case of a Read More

The Gay Falcon

Actors: George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, Allen Jenkins, Anne Hunter, Gladys Cooper

Synopsis: When the film rights to its "Saint" series proved too expensive to renew, RKO Radio came up with a lookalike property in the form of "The Falcon", even engaging George Sanders, the best of the "Saint" impersonators, to play the studio's newest gentleman detective. The Gay Falcon opens as Gay Read More

Public Enemies

Actors: Phillip Terry, Wendy Barrie, Edgar Kennedy, William Frawley, Marc Lawrence

Synopsis: In this drama an eager-beaver reporter loses his job when he prints a false story about a society girl. The unemployed reporter, anxious to redeem himself, then gets involves in a gangster backed smuggling operation. Meanwhile the wronged socialite falls in love with him. Unfortunately, he will Read More

Gangs of the City

Synopsis: A crime organization affects the lives of an ex-newspaper reporter and the socialite who cost the reporter his job. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Saint in Palm Springs

Actors: George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, Paul Guilfoyle, Jonathan Hale, Linda Hayes

Synopsis: George Sanders makes his final appearance as crook-turned-detective Simon Templar, a.k.a. "The Saint," in The Saint in Palm Springs. The gimmick in this one is a set of rare stamps, smuggled from England. Wendy Barrie is the true heir to this treasure, and the Saint is engaged to protect her and Read More

Women in War

Actors: Elsie Janis, Wendy Barrie, Patric Knowles, Mae Clarke

Synopsis: Musical comedy favorite Elsie Janis, who gained renown in WW1 as "The Sweetheart of the AEF", returned to the screen after a long absence in Republic's Women in War. The story is the old chestnut about two volunteer Red Cross nurses, Pamela (Wendy Barrie) and Gail (Mae Clarke), both in love with Read More

Cross Country Romance

Actors: Gene Raymond, Wendy Barrie, Hedda Hopper, Billy Gilbert, G.P. Huntley

Synopsis: Eleanor Browne's novel Highway to Romance was the source for this moneyspinning RKO Radio comedy. Obviously inspired by It Happened One Night, the story is set in motion by runaway heiress Diane (Wendy Barrie), who hopes to escape from her impending marriage. Stowing away in the trailer owned by Read More

The Saint Takes Over

Actors: George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, Jonathan Hale, Paul Guilfoyle, Morgan Conway

Synopsis: In this fourth film in RKO's series based on Leslie Charteris' modern Robin Hood "The Saint", George Sanders plays Simon Templar, alias the title character. The Saint's quarry is a ring of gamblers who have been fixing horse races. Inspector Fernack (Jonathan Hale), the Saint's friendly adversary Read More

Men Against the Sky

Actors: Richard Dix, Wendy Barrie, Edmund Lowe, Kent Taylor, Granville Bates

Synopsis: Richard Dix is his usual strong, silent self in RKO Radio's Men Against the Sky. Dix plays a washed-up pilot who designs a revolutionary new plane. Realizing that he is persona non grata in the aviation industry due to his irresponsibility and alcoholism, Dix allows his sister Wendy Barrie to take Read More

Who Killed Aunt Maggie?

Actors: John Hubbard, Wendy Barrie, Edgar Kennedy, Elizabeth Patterson, Onslow Stevens

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Medora Field, Who Killed Aunt Maggie? would appear to be an attempt by Republic Pictures to launch a new series of comedy-mysteries a la MGM's The Thin Man. When a much-despised matriarch (Elizabeth Patterson) is murdered-or apparently murdered-all of her relatives and Read More

Pacific Liner

Actors: Victor McLaglen, Chester Morris, Wendy Barrie, Alan Hale, Barry Fitzgerald

Synopsis: An outbreak of cholera threatens a luxury liner in this surprisingly low-budget melodrama from RKO. En route from Shanghai to San Francisco, chief engineer Crusher McKay (Victor McLaglen) and shipboard doctor Tony Craig (Chester Morris) become rivals for the attention of nurse Ann Grayson (Wendy Read More

The Witness Vanishes

Actors: Edmund Lowe, Wendy Barrie, Walter Kingsford, Forrester Harvey

Synopsis: In this mystery, a newspaper executive and three of his colleagues conspire to have the owner of the highly-respected London Sun committed to an insane asylum. The hapless publisher manages to escape. Soon after, the four collaborators begin dying one-by-one. Oddly their obituaries appear in a Read More

Newsboy's Home

Actors: Jackie Cooper, Edmund Lowe, Wendy Barrie, Edward Norris, Samuel S. Hinds

Synopsis: The "Little Tough Guys" get involved in a circulation war between a paper with underhanded tactics and a paper being mismanaged by the woman who inherited it. The Tough Guys' leader is partial to the latter, since it took him in when his sheriff father was murdered. He helps draw readers away from Read More

Day-Time Wife

Actors: Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Warren William, Binnie Barnes, Wendy Barrie

Synopsis: The extramarital shenanigans of a young married couple provide the basis of this surprisingly racy (for 1939 Hollywood) comedy. The trouble begins on the couple's second anniversary when he calls to say that he will be held up at the office. Later the wife finds lipstick on his collar and becomes Read More

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Actors: Richard Greene, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Lionel Atwill, John Carradine, Wendy Barrie

Synopsis: Though it takes a few liberties with the Arthur Conan Doyle original -- not the least of which is turning Sherlock Holmes into the second lead -- The Hound of the Baskervilles ranks as one of the best screen versions of this oft-told tale. After learning the history of the Baskerville curse from Read More

The Saint Strikes Back

Actors: George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, Jonathan Hale, Jerome Cowan, Neil Hamilton

Synopsis: The Saint Strikes Back was the second in the series of films featuring Simon Templay, better known as The Saint, and the first to star George Sanders in the role. Val Travers (Wendy Barrie) is the daughter of a police detective who killed himself after being dishonorably let go from the San Read More

Five Came Back

Actors: Chester Morris, Lucille Ball, Wendy Barrie, John Carradine, Allen Jenkins

Synopsis: Often cited as a "model" B picture, Five Came Back is set in motion when the twelve-seat passenger plane "Southern Star" crashes into a treacherous South American jungle. With a hostile tribe of headhunters drawing ever closer, pilots Bill (Chester Morris) and Joe (Kent Taylor) race against time Read More

I Am the Law

Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Barbara O'Neil, Wendy Barrie, Otto Kruger

Synopsis: I Am the Law is arguably the best of the late-1930s films inspired by the racket-busting career of New York district attorney Thomas E. Dewey. Edward G. Robinson switches to the right side of the law as the Dewey counterpart, here named John Lindsay (!) A feisty, no-nonsense law professor, Lindsay Read More

Breezing Home

Actors: William Gargan, Binnie Barnes, Wendy Barrie, Raymond Walburn, Alma Kruger

Synopsis: Framed by the fast-paced world of horse racing, this romance centers upon the wealthy young owner of a racing stable who falls in love with a beautiful singer who has just been given Galaxy, a promising young horse, by one of her beaus. Galaxy is accompanied by a trainer, who is also in love with Read More

Prescription for Romance

Actors: Mischa Auer, Wendy Barrie, Kent Taylor, Dorothea Kent, Frank Jenks

Synopsis: In this romance, a detective teams up with a count and travels to Budapest in search of an embezzler. While there, the two get involved with a female physician in whose house the criminal is concealed (the doctor doesn't know this). Soon the detective and the doctor are involved. Fortunately, by Read More

Vengeance

Actors: Lyle Talbot, Wendy Barrie, Marc Lawrence, Eddie Acuff, Lucille Lund

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a cop is ashamed because a fearful moment prevented him from stopping a bank robbery. He feels so bad he turns in his badge. He then joins the bank robbers' gang and brings them to justice. The story was originally titled What Price Vengeance? ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Dead End

Actors: Sylvia Sidney, Joel McCrea, Humphrey Bogart, Wendy Barrie, Claire Trevor

Synopsis: Adapted by Lillian Hellman from Sidney Kingsley's Broadway play, Dead End concerns itself with several denizens of New York's East River district. Here the elite and the slum-dwellers rub shoulders due to the close proximity of the riverfront tenements with the East Side luxury hotels. Slum girl Read More

Wings over Honolulu

Actors: Wendy Barrie, Ray Milland, William Gargan, Kent Taylor

Synopsis: In this wartime drama, a young woman nearly comes unhinged when her husband, a Navy pilot, is transferred to Pearl Harbor on their wedding day. She goes with him. Once in Hawaii she is surprised to see her ex-boyfriend sailing about in an expensive yacht. Her husband becomes totally engrossed in Read More

A Girl with Ideas

Actors: Wendy Barrie, Walter Pidgeon, Kent Taylor, Dorothea Kent, George Barbier

Synopsis: Girl with Ideas was Universal Pictures' version of MGM's matchless Libeled Lady. Wendy Barrie plays a society girl miffed at the bad press she's been getting in a local newspaper. Unable to convince publisher Walter Pidgeon to cease and desist, Barrie takes her case to court. She wins not only the Read More

Ticket to Paradise

Actors: Roger Pryor, Wendy Barrie, Andrew Tombes, Luis Alberni

Synopsis: In this comedy, an amnesiac takes off with a young woman. This causes the woman's father to hire a detective to find them. Real mayhem ensues when a nightclub owner/gangster gets involved. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Speed

Actors: James Stewart, Wendy Barrie, Una Merkel, Weldon Heyburn, Ted Healy

Synopsis: The fast-paced world of Indy car racing provides the backdrop for this drama. The story centers on a test driver who works at a major auto plant. He and his cohorts have invented a new kind of carburetor and are feverishly working to perfect and use it in the upcoming Indianapolis 500. As the race Read More

Give Her a Ring

Actors: Wendy Barrie, Erik Rhodes, Zelma O'Neal

Synopsis: A mid-1930s precursor to the 1956 Broadway musical Bells are Ringing, Give Her a Ring concerns a group of melodic telephone operators who get involved in the lives of their clients. One of these is Karen Swenson (Wendy Barrie), whose inability to mind her own business gets her in all sorts of Read More

Love on a Bet

Actors: Gene Raymond, Wendy Barrie, Helen Broderick, William Collier, Sr., Walter Johnson

Synopsis: Love on a Bet is a lightweight programmer from the "Get Rich Quick Wallingford" school of comedy. Gene Raymond stars as Michael, a fresh young sprout who needs $15,000 to produce a Broadway play. His rich uncle Carlton (William Collier Jr.) agrees to pony up the money, but only on the condition Read More

Under Your Spell

Actors: Lawrence Tibbett, Wendy Barrie, Gregory Ratoff, Arthur Treacher, Gregory Gaye

Synopsis: Otto Preminger was able to make his directorial debut on Under Your Spell solely because Darryl Zanuck couldn't care less about the film's quality; it was a contractual obligation film for Lawrence Tibbett, who was proving a washout as a film star. In Spell, Tibbett plays Anthony Allen, a world Read More

College Scandal

Actors: Arline Judge, Kent Taylor, Wendy Barrie, William Frawley, Ben Baker

Synopsis: Never mind the title and the musical content: College Scandal is at heart a murder mystery, and a pretty suspenseful one at that. Several mysterious killings have taken place at a co-ed college, and it looks as though there won't be anyone left alive to appear in the annual campus musical. The Read More

A Feather in Her Hat

Actors: Pauline Lord, Basil Rathbone, Louis Hayward, Billie Burke, Wendy Barrie

Synopsis: Legendary stage actress Pauline Lord made but a few films, but was always worth watching whenever she took command of the screen. In Feather in Her Hat, Lord plays cockney storekeeper Clarissa Phipps, who worries that her son Richard will grow up being ashamed of her humble vocation. Thus, she Read More

Scandals of Paris

Synopsis: In this comedy, an artists paints his clothed model as if she had been dressed in very revealing garb. Later his servant sells the work to the manager of a soap company who wants to use it for advertising. The campaign is a great success and all are pleased--except the company president who sees Read More

The Big Broadcast of 1936

Actors: Jack Oakie, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Lyda Roberti, Wendy Barrie, Bing Crosby

Synopsis: After a false start in 1932, Paramount's Big Broadcast series was jump-started in late 1935 with The Big Broadcast of 1936. The wisp of a storyline involves two-bit radio station owner Spud (Jack Oakie), who doubles as the station's sole announcer while his comic partner Smiley (Henry Wadsworth) Read More

Millions in the Air

Actors: John Howard, Willie Howard, Robert Cummings, Inez Courtney

Synopsis: The title doesn't refer to mosquitoes but to the amount of money that could be earned in the radio business of the 1930s. Samuel S. Hinds plays a Major Bowes-type entrepreneur who sponsors a weekly radio amateur contest. Hinds' daughter Wendy Barrie has show-biz aspirations, but dad won't hear of Read More

It's a Small World

Actors: Spencer Tracy, Wendy Barrie, Raymond Walburn, Virginia Sale, Astrid Allwyn

Synopsis: It's a Small World was the latest in a long line of It Happened One Night clones, this time starring Spencer Tracy and Wendy Barrie as rough approximations of Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert. It all begins when spoiled socialite Jane Dale (Barrie) and abrasive lawyer Bill Shevlin (Tracy) "meet Read More

It's a Boy

Actors: Leslie Henson, Albert Burdon, Edward Everett Horton, Heather Thatcher, Alfred Drayton

Synopsis: It's a Boy was freely adapted from a German play by Franz Arnold and Ernest Bach. On the eve of his marriage to Anita Gunn (Heather Thatcher), Dudley Leake (Edward Everett Horton) is confronted by Joe Piper (Albert Burdon), who claims to be Dudley's illegitimate son. Best man James Skippett (Leslie Henson Read More

The Man I Want

Without You

Synopsis: In this comedy, an aspiring writer leaves her husband, a composer, to pursue a career as a playwright. After six months, the woman finds herself courted by a handsome baron who uses her to facilitate his own divorce. Fortunately, she figures out his scheme before it is too late. She reconciles Read More

Murder at the Inn

Freedom of the Seas

Synopsis: Freedom of the Seas is sometimes listed as French stage director Marcel Varnel's first film; it's actually his first British film, after a two-year stay in Hollywood. Clifford Mollison stars as a meek London clerk who surprises his colleagues by being among the first to sign up when World War I is Read More

If I Were Rich

Actors: Robert Donat, Wendy Barrie, Edmund Gwenn, Clifford Heatherley

Synopsis: Robert Donat stars as a businessman struggling to keep his company afloat in this British comedy also known as Cash. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The House of Trent

Synopsis: In this drama, a country physician earns the gratitude of an important newspaper publisher by saving the man's daughter's life. When the old doctor dies, his son endeavors to follow in his footsteps and become a doctor too. While in med school, he meets the daughter and they fall in love. Her Read More

The Private Life of Henry VIII

Actors: Charles Laughton, Binnie Barnes, Merle Oberon, Elsa Lanchester, Everley Gregg

Synopsis: Charles Laughton became an international star by chewing both mutton and scenes in his Oscar-winning turn as King Henry VIII. Alexander Korda's British super-production also put the British cinema on the map, which, until this film, received precious little respect in the international film Read More

This Acting Business

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, two aspiring actors fall in love and marry against the wishes of their parents. The two begin working in the same play and marital mayhem ensues. Just when it seems as if their parents were right, the woman turns up pregnant and the joyous newlyweds soon reconcile their Read More

Collision

Synopsis: Wendy Barrie made her film debut in the verbose British mystery Collision. Wendy takes a back seat to top-billed Sunday Wilshin, who plays a scheming widow. To cover up her complicity in a jewel theft, Wilshin contrives to pin the blame on newlywed Gerald Rawlinson. With the help of Rawlinson's Read More

The Barton Mystery

Synopsis: The Barton Mystery was adapted from a play by Walter Hackett, previously filmed as a silent in 1920. Carried over from the earlier version is veteran British stage actor Lyn Harding, cast as a slimy blackmailer. When Harding is murdered, suspicion falls upon one of his extortion victims. To save Read More

Wedding Rehearsal

Actors: George Grossmith, Roland Young, John Loder, Lady Tree, Merle Oberon

Synopsis: Quite popular when first released, Wedding Rehearsal is a bit obscure today, which is a shame when one considers the talented cast and production staff. Roland Young plays a diffident aristocrat who is pressured to marry by his veddy proper family. Imagine their shock when Young falls in love with Read More

Threads

The Callbox Mystery

Synopsis: Fans of Doctor Who should know that a callbox is the British term for a police telephone booth. It stands to reason, then, that a detective should figure prominently in the 1932 The Callbox Mystery. That detective is Inspector Layton (Harold French, who later became a prolific director), who at Read More

Where is This Lady?

Actors: Marta Eggerth, Wendy Barrie, Owen Nares, Gibb McLaughlin

Synopsis: In this musical romance, the chairman of a financially foundering bank is forced into a relationship with a supposed heiress. Unfortunately, they both love others and in their passion forget all about the bank. After the institution folds, it is turned into a popular nightclub. ~ Sandra Brennan Read More