Mona Barrie

Mona Barrie Biography

Mona Barrie (18 December 1909 " 27 June 1964) was an English actress in American theatre and films.

Career

Born Mona Barlee Smith in London, she was educated in Australia and made her professional debut as a ballet dancer in Sydney at the age of sixteen. This led to a solo act in musical comedies. In 1933 she emigrated to New York, was given a test for films and this led to signing with Fox Film Corporation and making her film debut in the 1934 film Sleepers East using the stage name Mona Barrie. While her lack of a glamorous beauty resulted in her generally being cast in important but secondary roles, during a film career spanning almost twenty years she appeared in more than fifty films. For her contribution to the industry, Mona Barrie has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6140 Hollywood Blvd.

Barrie co-starred in 1942's Dawn on the Great Divide, the last film Buck Jones made before he died in the Cocoanut Grove fire in Boston, Massachusetts.

A stage actress as well, Mona Barrie performed at various playhouses across the U.S. and debuted on Broadway in 1937.

Personal life

From 1938 until her death she was married to Canadian Paul Macklin Bolton. Mona Barrie died in 1964 in Los Angeles, California. She and her husband are buried together in the Knox United Church Cemetery in Agincourt, Ontario.

Partial filmography

Charlie Chan in London (1934)
Unwelcome Stranger (1935)
Mystery Woman (1935)
King of Burlesque (1936)
Love on the Run (1936)
A Message to Garcia (1936)
I Met Him in Paris (1937)
Something to Sing About (1937)
Say It in French (1938)
Men Are Such Fools (1938)
I Take This Woman (1940)
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941)
Cairo (1942)
Today I Hang (1942)
Dawn on the Great Divide (1942)
Storm Over Lisbon (1944)
Just Before Dawn (1946)
Cass Timberlane (1947)
My Dog Rusty (1948)
The First Time (1952)
Strange Fascination (1952)
Plunder of the Sun (1953)

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