Corinne Barker on AllMovie

An important star with the pioneering Vitagraph company in the late 1910s, dark-haired Corinne Barker came from the stage -- The Crinoline Girl opposite female impersonator Julian Eltinge and Shirley Kaye opposite Elsie Ferguson -- and was famous for her hourglass figure. Top stardom eluded her after leaving Vitagraph, but Barker had important roles in Mabel Normands Peck's Bad Girl (1918), as Normand's modiste employer, and Why Girl Leaves Home (1921), as the gold digger. The wife of director Hobart Henley, Barker's career was cut short by a debilitating illness.