Know For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1917-12-29 (46 years old)
Deathday
1963-12-11
Place of Birth
Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada
Also known As
Barbara French Read
Barbara Reed
Born in Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada, Barbara Read was the daughter of a contractor. Under contract to Columbia, she was paid but never used for a single picture. She quit in disgust. She was later signed by Universal and was cast as one of the Craig sisters inThree Smart Girls (1936) along with Deanna Durbin and Nan Grey. This was Barbara's first and best remembered film. Her career was over by the time she married actor William Talman, of "Perry Mason" fame, in 1953. The couple had two children: Barbara ("Barbie") and William III ("Bobo"). The marriage was turbulent as both she and Talman suffered from alcohol problems. They divorced in 196...
1937
as Rhoda Cooper
1948
as Abbie Miles (as Barbara Reed)
1936
as Kay Craig
1947
as Martha Higby (as Barbara Reed)
1946
as Margo Lane
1946
as Margo Lane
1946
as Margo Lane
1940
as Helen Middleton
1940
as Helen Yates
1939
as Dotty Spencer
1937
as Nan
1938
as Patricia Hammond
1938
as Claire Saunders
1939
as Janet Marlowe
1942
as Linda Pearson
1946
as Mitzi
1942
as Mary Dale
1937
as Aileen Fenno
1947
as Peggy Sullivan (as Barbara Reed)
1937
as Clarice Stockbridge
1937
as Lucy
1986
as Story
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