Barbara Perry

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Barbara Mae Perry (born June 22, 1921 in Norfolk , Virginia - † May 5, 2019 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American actress .

Life

Family and Beginnings

Barbara Perry was born to William Covington Perry († 1936) and his wife Victoria Mae (Gates) Perry. Her father was from Hopewell , Virginia , and worked as a keyboardist , conductor, and arranger. a. Has worked for the Happiness Boys , New York NBC Radio Studios ( Blue Network ), his own band Perry's Hot Dogs , Ben Selvin and his orchestra, and many Broadway shows. Her mother, from New Castle , Pennsylvania , sang as soprano in the old building ( Old Metropolitan Opera House ) of the Metropolitan Opera , where she began her career around 1925 under the direction of Giulio Gatti-Casazza . At the age of four, Barbara Perry had her first stage appearance as Butterfly's child ( Trouble ) in the opera Madama Butterfly at the Metropolitan Opera. She was also a member of the Children's Ballet of the Metropolitan Opera.

In the early thirties - her mother had since separated from her husband - Barbara Perry came to Hollywood . Her mother opened Perry's Studios ( Perry's Rehearsal Hall ) there, where she received dance lessons and performed choreographies by Michio Ito and Agnes de Mille at the Hollywood Bowl in the 1930s . She performed as a dancer and tap dancer in numerous night clubs, including a. in the Hotel Nacional de Cuba , in the Chez Paris in Chicago , in the Cocoanut Grove in Los Angeles and in the Café de Paris in London , u. a. in the opening act by Lena Horne and Peggy Lee .

Theater productions

Barbara Perry has appeared in numerous Broadway and Off-Broadway productions. In 1950 she was Mrs. Larry in Happy as Larry on Broadway at the side of Burgess Meredith as husband in the title role. She was also partner of Eddie Foy Jr. as Anna in the musical Rumple (November / December 1957, at the Alvin Theater) with Gretchen Wyler and Stephen Douglass in the lead roles.

In the mid-1950s and early 1960s, Perry studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and played alongside George Formby , Warde Donovan and Sara Gregory in London's West End at the Hippodrome Theater and the Palace Theater. In the early 1980s she appeared on the one-woman show Passionate Ladies , which she wrote and won twice at the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards.

Film appearances

Barbara Perry made her film debut in William Wyler's The Manhattan Star Attorney (1933) with John Barrymore in the lead role; she then starred in The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935) with Claude Rains as the main actor.

After her return to the USA she appeared in numerous TV series, including a. on the Donna Reed Show , the Andy Griffith Show , on My Three Sons and The Dick Van Dyke Show , where she played Buddy Sorrell's wife Pickles alongside Morey Amsterdam before being replaced by Joan Shawlee . She also played the role of friend and neighbor Thelma Brockwood in the sitcom The Hathaways (1961–1962). In the sitcom How I Met Your Mother , she took on the role of neighbor Mrs. Douglas in two episodes. Perry played her last role as a gift shop clerk on the TV series Baskets (2017). Her film and television career spanned an extraordinary 84 years.

Private

Barbara Perry was married twice. Her second husband was the first marriage with dancer Marge Champion married animator Art Babbitt , the Disney character Goofy invented and for Disney productions such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) and Fantasia worked (1940). Perry was married to Babbitt from 1967 until his death in 1992.

Barbara Perry had a daughter, Laurel Lee. She died at the age of 97. "Natural reasons" were given as the cause of death.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Barbara Perry, Actress on 'The Dick Van Dyke Show,' Dies at 97 . Obituary. In: Hollywood Reporter, May 5, 2019. Retrieved May 25, 2019.
  2. ↑ a b c d Nine And A Half Questions With Barbara Perry Babbitt . Interview with Barbara Perry. AWN.com on February 12, 2002. Retrieved May 25, 2019.
  3. ↑ Passionate Ladies - Plus One . Credits. Retrieved May 25, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Perry, Barbara
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Perry, Barbara Mae; Perry Babbitt, Barbara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Norfolk , Virginia , United States
DATE OF DEATH 5th May 2019
Place of death Los Angeles , California , United States