Joanna Barnes

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Joanna Barnes (born November 15, 1934 in Boston , Massachusetts ) is an American actress and writer .

Life

The Boston house where Joanna Barnes grew up had belonged to her family since 1634. She graduated from Milton Academy and Smith College in 1956 , where she was an editor for the college newspaper and received the Phi Beta Kappa key .

After college, she actually aspired to writing, but was sent to Columbia Studios by actress Carmel Myers . There she was signed as an actress. She received a Golden Globe Award nomination for the role of Gloria Upson in The Great Aunt . She played Jane Parker in Tarzan, the lord of the jungle and Claudia Marius in Stanley Kubrick's film Spartacus . She also had bigger roles in Goodbye Charlie by Vincente Minnelli , in The Magnificent by Burt Kennedy and in The Naked Mile by Alexander Mackendrick . She also appeared in two film adaptations of Erich Kästner's novel Das doppelte Lottchen : In 1961, in The Announcement of Her Parents 'Marriage , she played Vicky Robinson, who wants to marry the twins' father in order to get his money. In 1998, in A Twin Seldom Comes Alone , the corresponding character was named Meredith Blake and was portrayed by Elaine Hendrix . Joanna Barnes played the character's mother, Vicki Blake.

Joanna Barnes has appeared in many series, she has guest roles in such successful series as Maverick , The Untouchables , 77 Sunset Strip , aka Smith and Jones , Dr. med. Marcus Welby , Quincy , Charlie's Angels , Trapper John, MD , Hard but warm , Remington Steele or murder is her hobby . In 21 Beacon Street she played the role of Lola, one of the leading roles, and in The Trials of O'Brien she played the ex-wife of Daniel O'Brien ( Peter Falk ). From 1965 she was a member of the advice team in the very successful entertainment show What's My Line .

Joanna Barnes was dubbed several times by Bettina Schön , but also by Regine Albrecht , Hallgard Bruckhaus , Brita Sommer , Barbara Adolph and Doris Gallart .

In addition to her acting career, Joanna Barnes also worked as a writer. Early on, she wrote a weekly interior decorating column called Touching Home for the Chicago Tribune . Soon she was also writing book reviews for the Los Angeles Times . In addition, from 1968 she published her own books, first a book on interior decoration, then the novels The Deceivers , Who Is Carla Hart? , Pastora and Silverwood .

Joanna Barnes was married three times, first briefly to Richard Edward Herndon, from 1962 to the divorce in 1967 with the actor Lawrence Dobkin and finally from 1980 until his death on January 17, 2012 with the architect Jack Lionel Warner.

Filmography (selection)

Movies

TV Shows

Awards

At the Golden Globe Awards in 1959 , Joanna Barnes was nominated for Best Young Actress for her performance in the film The Great Aunt , but could not win the award.

Books

In many places the books of several authors with the name Joanna Barnes are listed together. In 1988 the Los Angeles Times wrote that Barnes was working on her sixth book, the fifth novel, and almost 20 years later Joanna Barnes said in an interview with the British fanzine Simian Scrolls that she was working on her sixth book for the move to Northern California stopped.

The listing follows the UC Santa Barbara Library. The Library of Congress lists only the four novels.

Web links

Commons : Joanna Barnes  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Hedda Hopper : Joanna Barnes Oriented to Work . In: Los Angeles Times . January 5, 1965 (in English, online [accessed October 16, 2016]).
  2. ↑ a b A Jane With a Brain For Tarzan . In: Life Magazine . November 16, 1959, p.  71–73 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed October 16, 2016]).
  3. ↑ a b Hal Erickson : Joanna Barnes. In: AllMovie. Retrieved October 16, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Joanna Barnes. In: Turner Classic Movies . Retrieved October 27, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Joanna Barnes. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on October 16, 2016 .
  6. ^ Joanna Barnes: Spice for Kitchen . In: Chicago Tribune . Chicago December 22, 1963 ( Example for Touching Home [accessed October 16, 2016]).
  7. ^ A b Joanna Barnes: The Loneliness of the Later Intimacies: SECOND CHANCES by Alice Adams (Alfred A. Knopf: $ 18.95; 257 pp.) . In: Los Angeles Times . Los Angeles May 8, 1988 (English, sample book review [accessed October 16, 2016]).
  8. ↑ STARTING FROM SCRATCH: A Guide to Home Decorating. In: Kirkus. August 20, 1968, accessed October 16, 2016 .
  9. ↑ For the listing see #Romane .
  10. ^ John Leonard : Books of The Times . In: The New York Times . September 29, 1970 (English, online [accessed September 16, 2016] third review in the article).
  11. ↑ WHO IS CARLA HART? In: Kirkus. April 30, 1973, accessed October 16, 2016 .
  12. ^ Pastora. In: Goodreads. Retrieved October 16, 2016 .
  13. ↑ Vernon Scott: Truth in 'Silverwood' Stranger Than It's Fiction . In: Chicago Tribune . April 4, 1985 (in English, online [accessed October 16, 2016]).
  14. ↑ a b c Joanna Barnes. In: Memorial da Fama. Retrieved October 16, 2016 (Portuguese).
  15. ↑ a b Joanna Barnes in the Notable Names Database (English)
  16. ↑ PASSINGS: Richard J. Sheirer, Jiri Raska, Jack Lionel Warner. In: Los Angeles Times. January 23, 2012, accessed October 16, 2016 .
  17. ↑ For example, Joanna Barnes. In: Goodreads. Retrieved October 16, 2016 .
  18. ^ Dean Preston: Joanna Barnes Carsia . In: Simian Scrolls . tape 12 , 2006, p. 32 (English, online [PDF; accessed on October 16, 2016]).
  19. ↑ Santa Barbara Authors: B. In: UC Santa Barbara Library. Retrieved October 16, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Barnes, Joanna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actress and writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston , Massachusetts , United States