Lynn Bari

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Lynn Bari
Bari in The Amazing Mr. X
Born	Margaret Schuyler Fisher December 18, 1913(1913-12-18) Roanoke, Virginia
Died	November 20, 1989 (aged 75) Santa Monica, California
Spouse(s)	Walter Kane (1939-1943) Sidney Luft (1943-1950) Nathan Rickles (1955-1972)

Lynn Bari, born Margaret Schuyler Fisher (December 18, 1913 – November 20, 1989), was a movie actress (usually in B-movies) who specialized in playing sultry, statuesque man-killers in over one hundred 20th Century Fox films from the early 1930s through the 1940s.

Born in Roanoke, Virginia, most of her early films, before getting supporting parts, were uncredited roles usually playing receptionists or chorus girls.

Bari's rare leading roles include China Girl (1942) and Hello, Frisco, Hello (1943). However, in the B movies she was in, Lynn was usually cast as a villainess. Some examples include the films Shock and Nocturne (both 1946).

Notable exceptions to this general theme was The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1944). Lynn Bari's last film appearance was as the mother of rebellious teenager Patty McCormack in The Young Runaways (1968).

In July 1952, Bari appeared in her own situation comedy called Boss Lady. She portrayed Gwen Allen, the beautiful top executive of a construction firm. Not the least of her troubles in the assignment was that of being able to hire a general manager who did not fall in love with her. [TV News, July 4, 1952]

Commenting on her "other woman" roles, Bari once said, "I seem to be a woman always with a gun in her purse. I'm terrified of guns. I go from one set to the other shooting people and stealing husbands!"

She died of an apparent heart attack in Santa Monica, California at the age of 75.