What is Lynn Bari?
[[Image:Lynn Bari 2.jpg|right|250px]] '''Lynn Bari''' (born '''Margaret Schuyler Fisher'''; December 18, 1913 – November 20, 1989) was a [[movie]] [[actress]]. She played sultry and statuesque man-killers in about 150 [[20th Century Fox]] movies from the 1930s to 1940s.<ref>{{cite web|title=Celebrating Lynn Bari|date=18 December 2018|publisher=Vienna's Classic Hollywood|url=https://viennasclassichollywood.com/2018/12/18/celebrating-lynn-bari|access-date=August 23, 2020|archive-date=24 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200924005959/https://viennasclassichollywood.com/2018/12/18/celebrating-lynn-bari/|url-status=dead}}</ref> In most of her early movies, Bari often played as [[chorus girl]]s or [[receptionist]]s. She could hardly find starring roles in movies. Rare leading roles were ''[[China Girl (1942 movie)|China Girl]]'' (1942) and ''[[The Spiritualist]]'' (1948). During [[World War II]], Bari was the second most-popular pin-up girl; [[Betty Grable]] was the first. Bari's movie career died out in the 1950s as she approached her 40th birthday. However, she continued working at a limited pace. She played matronly characters instead of temptresses. Bari quickly took up the medium of rising [[television]] in the 1950s. In 1950, she acted in the live sitcom ''Detective's Wife''.<ref>{{cite news|title=Lynn Bari|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2002&dat=19930110&id=K6dUAAAAIBAJ&sjid=gTsNAAAAIBAJ&pg=4896,1789646&hl=en|access-date=August 23, 2020}}</ref> Bari was born near [[Roanoke, Virginia]]. She died of a [[myocardial infarction|heart attack]] in [[Santa Monica, California]] at age 75. ==References== <references/> {{DEFAULTSORT:Bari, Lynn}} [[Category:1913 births]] [[Category:1989 deaths]] [[Category:American television actors]] [[Category:American movie actors]] [[Category:Actors from Virginia]]