Wendy Barrie

Personal Info

Birthday

April 18, 1912

Day of Death

1978-02-02

(65 years old)

Place of Birth

Hong Kong, British Crown Colony [now China]

Also Known As

Marguerite Wendy Jenkins

Wendy Barrie

Biography

Wendy Barrie was a British actress who worked in British and American films. Barrie was born in London to English parents.

Her father, Francis Charles John Graigoe Jenkin KC (1883 – 1936), was an employee of Great Western (according to the 1901 census), who then joined the Royal Fusiliers in 1902. Her mother was Ellen McDonagh. Hollywood gave her a more exotic parentage with her father being a King's Counsel and her mother a Russian-Jewish actress who had performed in the world's first professional Yiddish-language theater troupe.

Known For

The Big Broadcast of 1936

Dead End

The Saint Takes Over

The Private Life of Henry VIII

Wings Over Honolulu

Newsboys' Home

Men Against the Sky

It Should Happen to You

Filmography

1954
It Should Happen to You
as Guest Panelist
1943
Submarine Alert
as Ann Patterson
Follies Girl
as Anne Merriday
Forever and a Day
as Edith Trimble-Pomfret
1942
Eyes of the Underworld
as Betty Standing
A Date with the Falcon
as Helen Reed
1941
Gangs Of The City
as Bonnie Parker
The Gay Falcon
as Helen Reed
Repent at Leisure
as Emily Baldwin
The Saint In Palm Springs
as Elna Johnson
1940
Who Killed Aunt Maggie?
as Sally Ambler
Men Against the Sky
as Kay Mercedes
Cross-Country Romance
as Diane North
The Saint Takes Over
as Ruth Summers
Women in War
as Pamela Starr
1939
Day-time Wife
as Kitty Fraser
The Witness Vanishes
as Joan Marplay
Five Came Back
as Alice Melbourne
The Hound of the Baskervilles
as Beryl Stapleton
The Saint Strikes Back
as Valerie 'Val' Travers
Pacific Liner
as Ann Grayson
1938
Newsboys' Home
as Gwen Dutton
I Am the Law
as Frances 'Frankie' Ballou
1937
Prescription for Romance
as Valerie Wilson
A Girl with Ideas
as Mary Morton
Dead End
as Kay Burton
What Price Vengeance
as Polly Moore
Wings Over Honolulu
as Lauralee Curtis
Breezing Home
as Gloria Lee
1936
Under Your Spell
as Cynthia Drexel
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
as Self
Ticket to Paradise
as Jane Forbes
Speed
as Jane Mitchell
Love on a Bet
as Paula Gilbert
1935
Millions in the Air
as Marion Keller
A Feather in Her Hat
as Pauline Anders
The Big Broadcast of 1936
as Sue
College Scandal
as Julie Fresnel
It's A Small World
as Jane Dale
There Goes Susie
as Madeleine Sarteaux
1934
Freedom of the Seas
as Phyllis Harcourt
Give Her a Ring
as Karen Svenson
It's a Boy
as Mary Bogle
1933
This Acting Business
as Joyce
The House of Trent
as Angela Fairdown
Cash
as Lilian Gilbert
The Private Life of Henry VIII
as Jane Seymour
1932
Where Is This Lady?
as Lucie Kleiner
The Barton Mystery
as Phyllis Grey
Wedding Rehearsal
as Lady Mary Rose Wroxbury
Collision
as Joyce Maynard
The Callbox Mystery
as Iris Banner
Threads
as Olive Wynn