Barbara Darrow

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Barbara Darrow (* 18 November 1931 in Los Angeles , California as Barbara Georgina Wittlinger ; † 26. August 2018 ) was an American actress .

Life

Barbara Darrow was born in 1931 under the name Barbara Georgine Wittlinger in Los Angeles (district of Hollywood ) as the daughter of a landscape architect and an actress. Her uncle was the silent film actor John Darrow , whose last name she later adopted as a stage name.

Darrow was signed to RKO Pictures by Howard Hughes in 1951 . The first role after the signing of the contract, not yet mentioned in the credits, followed in the same year in the musical comedy My husband wants to marry . She made her film debut the year before in the drama A Life of Her Own . This was followed by other unnamed appearances in several film productions, before she got the role of Simone in The Mountain of Temptation in 1956 , after the original cast Marla English was canceled due to illness. Another important role in Darrow's film career was that of Kaeel at the side of Zsa Zsa Gabor in the 1958 science fiction film In the Talons of Venus . In 1960 she made her last feature film with The longer, the better .

After quitting her job as a film actress, Darrow appeared in several television shows and series, including in Dezernat M and Peter Gunn . In 1977 she ended her acting career with two guest roles in Die Zwei with the shoot .

Barbara Darrow was married to talent agent and later entrepreneur Thomas David Tannenbaum from 1956 until his death in 2001, whose father David Tannenbaum was Mayor of San Diego from 1952 to 1956 . The couple had three children together. Darrow died on August 26, 2018 at the age of 86. She was buried in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Barbara Georgine Wittlinger Tannenbaum. In: Find a Grave . April 17, 2019, accessed on May 28, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Darrow, Barbara
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wittlinger, Barbara Georgine; Wittlinger Tannenbaum, Barbara Georgine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Los Angeles , California , United States
DATE OF DEATH August 26, 2018