American actress Joanna Barnes went from Southern-belle complacency to a contract with Warner Bros. studios. Joanna was generally cast as steely-eyed, truculent blondes in such films as Home Before Dark (1958) and (freelancing for director Stanley Kubrick) Spartacus (1960). She also held the dubious distinction of being the latest in a long line of "Janes" in the 1959 cheapie Tarzan of the Apes. Barnes worked a great deal on television in the 1950s and 1960s: she was detective Dennis Morgan's girl Friday on 1959's 21 Beacon Street; the ex-wife of pennyante attorney Peter Falk in the 1965 weekly drama The Trials of O'Brien; and the hostess of the 5-minute ABC gossipfest Dateline Hollywood. In 1973, Joanna gave up acting to pursue a career as a novelist, and to that end took a room in a Los Angeles office building leased exclusively to professional writers. While Joanna Barnes might not be remembered for her writings, she made an indelible impression as Vassar-educated socialite Gloria Upson, who spoke as though she had novacaine in her upper lip (the playwrights' description of the character) in the 1958 film comedy Auntie Mame.
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The Parent Trap
Actor |
1998 | |||
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Cheers: The Visiting Lecher
TV Guest Appearance |
1989 | |||
| 1987 | ||||
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| 1976 | ||||
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Kill My Wife... Please!
Actor |
1976 | |||
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S.W.A.T.: Death Carrier
Actor |
1975 | |||
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Assault on Gavaloni
Actor |
1972 | |||
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B.S. I Love You
Actor |
1971 | |||
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Too Many Thieves
Actor |
1968 | |||
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Don't Make Waves
Actor |
1967 | |||
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The War Wagon
Actor |
1967 | |||
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Goodbye Charlie
Actor |
1964 | |||
| 1963 | ||||
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| 1961 | ||||
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The Parent Trap
Actor |
1961 | |||
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The Purple Hills
Actor |
1961 | |||
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| 1960 | ||||
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Spartacus
Actor |
1960 | |||
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Tarzan, the Ape Man
Actor |
1959 | |||
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Auntie Mame
Actor |
1958 | |||
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Home Before Dark
Actor |
1958 | |||
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| 1958 | ||||
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Violent Road
Actor |
1958 | |||
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Maverick: Ghost Rider
Actor |
1957 |

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