Barbara Jo Allen

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1906-09-02 (68 years old)

Deathday

1974-09-14

Place of Birth

New York City, New York, USA

Barbara Jo Allen

Biography

From Wikipedia Barbara Jo Allen (September 2, 1906 – September 14, 1974) was an actress also known as Vera Vague, the spinster character she created and portrayed on radio and in films during the 1940s and 1950s. She based the character on a woman she had seen delivering a PTA literature lecture in a confused manner. As Vague, she popularized the catch phrase "You dear boy!" Allen's acting ability first surfaced in school plays. Following her high school graduation, she went to Paris to study at the Sorbonne. Concentrating on language, she became proficient in French, Spanish, German and Italian. After the death of her parents, she moved to...

Acting

1959

Sleeping Beauty

as Fauna (voice)

1940

The Mad Doctor

as Louise Watkins (as Barbara Allen [Vera Vague])

1939

Moving Vanities

as Mrs. Errol

1942

Larceny, Inc.

as Mademoiselle Gloria

1960

Goliath II

as Goliath II's Mother

1944

Girl Rush

as Suzie Banks

1941

Kiss the Boys Goodbye

as Myra Stanhope

1941

Ice-Capades

as Vera Vague

1959

Born to Be Loved

as Irene Hoffman

1945

Snafu

as Madge Stevens

1956

Mohawk

as Aunt Agatha

1944

1944

Rosie the Riveter

as Vera Watson

1944

Henry Aldrich Plays Cupid

as Mrs. Terwilliger ("Blue Eyes")

1939

The Women

as Receptionist (uncredited)

1946

Hiss and Yell

as Vera Vague

1940

Village Barn Dance

as Vera Vague

1946

1940

Broadway Melody of 1940

as Ms. Konk (uncredited)

1942

Ice Capades Revue

as Aunt Nellie

1940

Melody and Moonlight

as Adelaide Barnett

1950

Square Dance Katy

as Gypsy Jones

1943

Get Going

as Matilda Jones

1941

Buy Me That Town

as Henriette Teagarden

1944

Cowboy Canteen

as Vera Vague

1956

The Opposite Sex

as Dolly DeHaven

1940

Melody Ranch

as Veronica Whipple

1956

Columbia Laff Hour

as Vera Vague (archive footage)

1944

1952

Happy Go Wacky

as Vera Vague

1944

Strife of the Party

as Vera Clayton

1945

Calling All Fibbers

as Vera Vague

1943

1944

1946

Reno-Vated

as Vera Butts

1947

Cupid Goes Nuts

as Vera Vague / Prudy Vague

1946

1949

Miss in a Mess

as Vera Vague

1949

1950

Nursie Behave

as Vera Vague

1949

1951

She Took a Powder

as Vera Vague

1942

Priorities on Parade

as Mariposa Ginsbotham

1963

The Sword in the Stone

as Scullery Maid (voice) (uncredited)

1941

1943

Swing Your Partner

as Vera Vague

1939

Kennedy the Great

as Mrs. John Potter

1991

Disney’s Coyote Tales

as Goliath II’s Mother (voice)

1974

The Three Stooges Follies

as Vera Clayton (archive footage)

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