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Joanna Barnes

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Joanna Barnes
Joanna Elyes 1959
Barnes in 1959
Born(1934-11-15)November 15, 1934
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
DiedApril 29, 2022(2022-04-29) (aged 87)
Sea Ranch, California, U.S.
Alma materSmith College
Occupations
  • Actress
  • writer
Years active1956–2002
Spouses
  • Richard Herndon
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    (m. 1955; div. 1956)​
  • ​
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    (m. 1961; div. 1967)​
  • Jack Lionel Warner
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    (m. 1980; died 2012)​

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

Early life and education

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Barnes was born in Boston, to John Pindar Barnes and the former Alice Weston Mutch. She had two younger sisters, Alice and Judith, and grew up in Hingham, Massachusetts.[2] Barnes attended Milton Academy and then Smith College, from which she graduated in 1956 as a member of Phi Beta Kappa.[3] She majored in English.[4] Barnes received the college's award for poetry, the immediate successor to Sylvia Plath for this recognition. Her research for a magazine article about making movies led to a career change to acting.[5]

Career

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Television

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Barnes' initial appearance on television was in the episode "The Man Who Beat Lupo" on Ford Theatre.[2] She made guest appearances on many television series, including the ABC/Warner Bros. programs 77 Sunset Strip and Maverick, CBS's Have Gun - Will Travel, and the crime drama Richard Diamond, Private Detective. In 1961, she guest-starred on The Untouchables episode "90 Proof Dame" as the wife of a French exporter of brandy.

Barnes appeared as Kate Henniger, with Bing Russell and Arthur Space in the 1958 episode "Ghost Town" of the ABC/WB Western series Colt .45, starring Wayde Preston.[6][7]: 101  In 1959, she portrayed Lola in the NBC detective series 21 Beacon Street.

In the 1960s, Barnes worked for producer Martin Ransohoff and appeared in episodes of his The Beverly Hillbillies ("Elly Goes to School" and "The Clampett Look") and was billed as special guest-star. Barnes played Peter Falk's former wife on the 1965–1966 CBS series The Trials of O'Brien[8] and was host of the ABC daytime talk show Dateline: Hollywood in 1967.[9]

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

She was also a frequent panellist in the early years of the syndicated version of What's My Line?.[10] On December 19, 1972, Barnes appeared on The Merv Griffin Show with Joan Fontaine, Zsa Zsa Gabor and Dan Martino (founder of the Dan Martino School for Men).[citation needed]

Film

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With Peter Falk in The Trials of O'Brien (1965)
With Roger Moore in The Trials of O'Brien

Barnes moved to Los Angeles soon after finishing her education, and took up a contract with Columbia Pictures. She went on to have roles in more than 20 films. Among her most remembered roles is the snooty Gloria Upson in the film Auntie Mame (1958), which earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination for New Star of the Year.[11] Barnes became the 13th actress to play Jane when she appeared in Tarzan, the Ape Man (1959), with Denny Miller as Tarzan. She played the younger of the two Roman women who visited Peter Ustinov's gladiator school and thoughtlessly provoked a slave rebellion 1960's Spartacus. In Disney's original 1961 version of The Parent Trap starring Hayley Mills, Barnes played gold-digger Vicki Robinson, who temporarily comes between Maureen O'Hara and Brian Keith. In the 1998 remake starring Lindsay Lohan, she played Vicki Blake, the mother of the child-hating gold-digger and fiancée Meredith Blake (Elaine Hendrix). In 1967, she appeared in The War Wagon, a Western movie starring John Wayne and Kirk Douglas.[12]

Writing

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Barnes was also a writer and columnist. In 1973, she told newspaper columnist Dick Kleiner that she liked writing because "it is something you do yourself. With acting, if you win an Oscar or an Emmy, you have to thank everybody. If you write a 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 weekly book review[14] for the Los Angeles Times,[15] and her column "Touching Home" was carried by the Chicago Tribune and the New York News Syndicate.[citation needed]

Personal life

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Barnes was married three times. Her marriages to Richard Herndon and Lawrence Dobkin ended in divorce; her marriage to Jack Lionel Warner ended with his death in 2012.[16]

Death

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Barnes died at her home in Sea Ranch, California, on April 29, 2022, aged 87. (Some sources erroneously gave her age at death as 89, although the 1940 U.S. census gives her age as of May 9, 1940 as 5 years.)[16][17] She was survived by her stepchildren and sisters.[18]

Select filmography

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Year Title Role Notes
1956 Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers Episode: "The Regiment"
1957 Ford Theatre Ileana Episode: "The Man Who Beat Lupo"
1957 Playhouse 90 Ellen Blackwell Episode: "The Blackwell Story"
1957 The Garment Jungle Bit Model (uncredited)
1957 Conflict Betty Callister
Laura Ferris 		Episode: "Anything for Money"
Episode: "The Velvet Cage"
1957–1960 Maverick Various 5 episodes
1957 Cheyenne Alice Chaney Episode: "Devil's Canyon"
1958 Cheyenne Adelaide Marshall Episode "Dead to Rights"
1958 Colt .45 Kate Henniger Episode: "Ghost Town"
1958 Violent Road Peg Lawrence
1958 Onionhead Snobbish Girl at Party (uncredited)
1958 Home Before Dark Cathy Bergner
1958 Steve Canyon Joan Richards Episode: "Operation Diplomat"
1958 Auntie Mame Gloria Upson
1959 Beach Patrol Edie West TV movie
1959 21 Beacon Street Lola/Joana 11 episodes
1959 Tarzan, the Ape Man Jane Parker
1959 Hawaiian Eye Rikki Whitman Episode: "A Dime a Dozen"
1960 M Squad Tammy Worth Episode: "The Twisted Way"
1960 Philip Marlowe Lois Conway Episode: "Death Takes a Lover"
1960 The Millionaire Karen Summers Episode: "Millionaire Karen Summers"
1960 The Man from Blackhawk Colette Episode: "Remember Me Not"
1960 Mr. Lucky Laura Lawrence Episode: "Taking a Chance"
1960 General Electric Theater Princess Camilla Episode: "The Ugly Duckling"
1960 Alcoa Theatre Eve Fremont Episode: "333 Montgomery Street"
1960 Richard Diamond, Private Detective Joyce Long Episode: "The Lovely Fraud"
1960 Dante Episode: "One for the Birds"
1960 Spartacus Claudia Marius
1960 Adventures in Paradise Diane Winthrope Episode: "Incident in Suva"
1960 The Tab Hunter Show Episode: "Portia Go Home"
1961 The Tab Hunter Show Isabelle Episode: "Dream Boy"
1961 Bringing Up Buddy Marcia Sutter Episode: "Buddy's Transfer"
1961 Michael Shayne Nora Episode: "Final Settlement"
1961 Stagecoach West Ruby Sanders Episode: "The Outcasts"
1961 The Untouchables Marquise de Bouverais / Marcie McKuen Episode: "90-Proof Dame"
1961 The Parent Trap Vicky Robinson
1961 The Bob Cummings Show Amanda Caulfield Episode: "Executive Sweet"
1961 The Investigators Georgette Episode: "In a Mirror, Darkly"
1961 Target: The Corruptors! Ann Fielding Episode: "The Golden Carpet"
1961 The Purple Hills Amy Carter
1961 Follow the Sun Doris #1 Episode: "The Primitive Clay"
1961 Cain's Hundred Carol Cheston Episode: "Five for One"
1962 Laramie Ruth
Lucy Barton 		Episode: "This Barefoot Kid"
Episode: "War Hero"
1962 Sam Benedict Cordelia Montagne Episode: "Tears for a Nobody Doll"
1962 Have Gun-Will Travel Penelope Lacey Episode: "Penelope"
1962 Alcoa Premiere Sylvia Dorn Episode: "Mr. Easy"
1963 Alcoa Premiere Aggie McCrae Episode: "The Glass Palace"
1963 The Eleventh Hour Dr. Sarah Crowley Episode: "My Name Is Judith, I'm Lost, You See"
1963 Empire Neva Bradford Episode: "Down There, the World"
1963 The Beverly Hillbillies Cynthia Fenwick Episode: "Elly Starts to School"
Episode: "The Clampett Look"
1963 77 Sunset Strip Lisa Cabot Episode: "88 Bars"
1964 Arrest and Trial Melinda Parsons Episode: "A Circle of Strangers"
1964 The Farmer's Daughter Monica Episode: "The Next Mrs. Morley"
1964 Goodbye Charlie Janie Highland
1965 Dr. Kildare Dr. Suzanne Shary Episode: "Make Way for Tomorrow"
1965 Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre Connie Episode: "Simon Says Get Married"
1965–1966 The Trials of O'Brien Katie O'Brien 5 episodes
1967 The War Wagon Lola
1967 Don't Make Waves Diane Prescott
1967 Too Many Thieves Katie
1968 Off to See the Wizard Jane Parker Episode: "Tarzan the Ape Man"
1968 Mannix Phyllis Richards S2-Episode 12: "Fear I to Fall"
1969 The Name of the Game Ardith Episode: "The Perfect Image"
1970 Nanny and the Professor Lynn Carlisle Episode: "The Scientific Approach"
1971 B.S. I Love You Jane Ink
1971 O'Hara, U.S. Treasury Hannah Episode: "Operation: Payoff"
1971 Alias Smith and Jones Janet Judson
Mrs. Hanley 		Episode: "How to Rob a Bank in One Hard Lesson"
Episode: "Miracle at Santa Marta"
1972 Hawaii Five-O Bonnie Soames Episode: "Didn't We Meet at a Murder?"
1972 Cool Million Angela Balcom Episode: "Assault on Gavaloni"
1973 Love, American Style Faith Schiller Episode: "Love and Legend"
1973 The New Perry Mason Mrs. Ballinger Episode: "The Case of the Ominous Oath"
1973 McCloud Karen Chandler Episode: "The Solid Gold Swingers"
1973 Marcus Welby, M.D. Laura Daniels
Noreen Saunders 		Episode: "The Working Heart"
Episode: "Death Is Only a Side Effect"
1974 Planet of the Apes Carsia Episode: "Up Above the World So High"
1975 SWAT Andrea Episode: "Death Carrier"
1975 Matt Helm Hannah Bigelow Episode: "Think Murder"
1975 Ellery Queen Camellia Justice Episode: "The Adventure of the Blunt Instrument"
1975 I Wonder Who's Killing Her Now? Clarice Oliver
1976 Quincy, M.E. Margo Bentley / Barbara Miller Episode: "Who's Who in Neverland"
1976 Executive Suite Sharon Cody 3 episodes
1978 The Betty White Show Episode: "Play Misty for John"
1978–1979 Fantasy Island Various 3 episodes
1979 Charlie's Angels Julia Lathrop Episode: "Angels on Skates"
1980 The Last Resort Episode: "Gone with a Whim"
1980 When the Whistle Blows Mrs. Hamilton Episode: "Macho Man"
1980 Trapper John, M.D. Roz Tremor Episode: "Girl Under Glass: Part 2"
1982 Barney Miller Mrs. Fitzjames Episode: "Chinatown: Part 1"
Episode: "Chinatown: Part 2"
1982 Hart to Hart Rosemary Wentworth Episode: "Hart's Desire"
1983 Remington Steele Claudette Crockett Episode: "My Fair Steele"
1985 Trapper John, M.D. Teresa Hillyer Episode: "In the Eyes of the Beholder"
1986 Benson Reba Sennett Episodes: "Reel Murder" parts 1 & 2
1987 Murder, She Wrote Lydia Barnett Episode: "The Way to Dusty Death"
1989 Cheers Valerie Crandell Episode: "The Visiting Lecher"
1998 The Parent Trap Vicki Blake
2000 Then Came You Lilian Episode: "Then Came the Monthiversary"

References

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  1. ^ "Joanna Barnes". Turner Classic Movies. Archived from the original on October 12, 2021. Retrieved October 12, 2021.
  2. ^ a b Aaker, Everett (2006). Encyclopedia of Early Television Crime Fighters McFarland & Company, Inc., pp. 31-32; ISBN 978-0-7864-6409-8
  3. ^ "Ask the Globe", Boston Globe, September 19, 1997, via HighBeam Research.
  4. ^ Handsaker, Gene (August 6, 1967). "This Pretty Actress Is Also Writer, Interviewer". The High Point Enterprise. The High Point Enterprise. p. 35. Retrieved October 31, 2015 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  5. ^ a b Carter, Michelle (June 19, 1973). "A Creator of Many Images". The Times. The Times. p. 11. Retrieved October 31, 2015 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  6. ^ "Colt .45". TVGuide.com. Retrieved June 29, 2024.
  7. ^ Lentz, Harris M. (1997). Television Westerns Episode Guide: All United States Series, 1949-1996. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-0-7864-7386-1.
  8. ^ Erickson, Hal (October 21, 2009). Encyclopedia of Television Law Shows: Factual and Fictional Series About Judges, Lawyers and the Courtroom, 1948-2008. McFarland. p. 263. ISBN 978-0-7864-5452-5.
  9. ^ McNeil, Alex (1996). Total Television: The Comprehensive Guide to Programming from 1948 to the Present. Penguin Books. p. 199. ISBN 978-0-14-024916-3.
  10. ^ a b "Joanna: Actress, Writer". The San Bernardino County Sun. The San Bernardino County Sun. May 27, 1973. p. 103. Retrieved October 31, 2015 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  11. ^ "Joanna Barnes". Golden Globe Awards. Retrieved November 1, 2015.
  12. ^ Lewis, Michael (1998). True Grits: Recipes Inspired by the Movies of John Wayne. Citadel Press. p. 25. ISBN 978-1-55972-454-8.
  13. ^ Kleiner, Dick (October 21, 1973). "Joanna Barnes Now Novelist". Lubbock Avalanche-Journal. Lubbock Avalanche-Journal. p. 86. Retrieved October 31, 2015 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon Open access icon
  14. ^ Misurell, Ed (November 4, 1965). "She's Better Organized Than a Union". The Daily Notes. The Daily Notes. p. 10. Retrieved October 31, 2015 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  15. ^ Byers, Bill (July 17, 1965). "Joanna Barnes Loses Weight at Maddening Pace". The North Adams Transcript. The North Adams Transcript. p. 9. Retrieved October 31, 2015 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  16. ^ a b Barnes, Mike (April 30, 2022). "Joanna Barnes, Actress in 'The Parent Trap' and 'Auntie Mame,' Dies at 87". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved April 30, 2022.
  17. ^ Notice of death of Joanna Barnes, deadline.com. Accessed May 3, 2022.
  18. ^ "Joanna Barnes, 'The Parent Trap' and 'Tarzan' Actress, Dead at 87" Glenn Garner Published on May 1, 2022 https://people.com/movies/joanna-barnes-the-parent-trap-tarzan-actress-dead-87/ (accessed 10/29/23)
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