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Joanna Barnes

Joanna Barnes

Actor · 1934 – 2022 · Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Barnes' initial appearance on television was in the episode "The Man Who Beat Lupo" on Ford Theatre. 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, What's My Line, and the crime drama Richard Diamond, Private Detective. In 1960-61, 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. 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 and was host of the ABC daytime talk show Dateline: Hollywood in 1967. She was also a frequent panelist in the early years of the syndicated version of What's My Line?. 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). 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, which earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination for New Star of the Year. Barnes became the 13th actress to play Jane when she appeared in Tarzan, the Ape Man, with Denny Miller as Tarzan. 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 fiancee Meredith Blake (Elaine Hendrix). As well, she appeared in The War Wagon, a western movie starring John Wayne and Kirk Douglas. 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." She wrote a book, titled Starting from Scratch, about home decorating and several novels, including The Deceivers, Who Is Carla Hart?, Pastora, and Silverwood. She wrote a weekly book review for the Los Angeles Times, and her column "Touching Home" was carried by The Chicago Tribune and the New York News Syndicate.

Series24

  • TV7.0

    What's My Line?

    1950 · 29 votes

  • TV7.5

    Murder, She Wrote

    1984 · 471 votes

  • TV7.6

    Cheers

    1982 · 712 votes

  • TV7.0

    Maverick

    1957 · 43 votes

  • TV5.7

    Dr. Kildare

    1961 · 19 votes

  • TV7.5

    Quincy, M.E.

    1976 · 123 votes

  • TV6.8

    Mannix

    1967 · 56 votes

  • TV7.2

    Hawaii Five-O

    1969 · 164 votes

  • TV7.3

    Have Gun, Will Travel

    1957 · 44 votes

  • TV7.0

    The Name of the Game

    1968 · 13 votes

  • TV5.9
  • TV6.7

    Charlie's Angels

    1976 · 241 votes

  • TV7.1

    Remington Steele

    1982 · 147 votes

  • TV6.9

    The Beverly Hillbillies

    1962 · 139 votes

  • TV7.3

    Barney Miller

    1975 · 62 votes

  • TV8.0

    The Untouchables

    1959 · 139 votes

  • TV6.6

    Trapper John, M.D.

    1979 · 23 votes

  • TV6.2

    Cheyenne

    1955 · 26 votes

  • TV6.6

    Marcus Welby, M.D.

    1969 · 20 votes

  • TV6.9

    Hart to Hart

    1979 · 133 votes

  • TV6.5

    Fantasy Island

    1978 · 130 votes

  • TV5.6

    Hawaiian Eye

    1959 · 10 votes

  • TV7.2

    McCloud

    1970 · 53 votes

  • TV6.1

    Adventures in Paradise

    1959 · 7 votes

Movies21

  • Movie7.2

    The Parent Trap

    1998 · 4.7K votes

  • Movie7.5

    Spartacus

    1960 · 2.5K votes

  • Movie7.0

    The Parent Trap

    1961 · 442 votes

  • Movie6.8

    The War Wagon

    1967 · 232 votes

  • Movie5.2

    Don't Make Waves

    1967 · 38 votes

  • Movie7.0

    Auntie Mame

    1958 · 129 votes

  • Movie5.8

    Goodbye Charlie

    1964 · 29 votes

  • Movie6.5

    The Garment Jungle

    1957 · 27 votes

  • Movie3.6
  • Movie6.3
  • Movie4.5

    Tarzan, the Ape Man

    1959 · 8 votes

  • Movie7.0

    Home Before Dark

    1958 · 23 votes

  • Movie5.7

    Too Many Thieves

    1966 · 3 votes

  • Movie4.7

    B.S. I Love You

    1971 · 3 votes

  • Movie6.4

    No Time to Be Young

    1957 · 9 votes

  • Movie7.0
  • Movie
  • Movie6.4

    Violent Road

    1958 · 8 votes

  • Movie
  • Movie4.5
  • Movie7.0

    The Purple Hills

    1961 · 2 votes