Barbara Read

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1917-12-29 (46 years old)

Deathday

1963-12-11

Place of Birth

Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada

Barbara Read

Biography

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...

Acting

1937

Make Way for Tomorrow

as Rhoda Cooper

1948

Coroner Creek

as Abbie Miles (as Barbara Reed)

1936

Three Smart Girls

as Kay Craig

1947

Key Witness

as Martha Higby (as Barbara Reed)

1946

Behind the Mask

as Margo Lane

1946

The Missing Lady

as Margo Lane

1946

The Shadow Returns

as Margo Lane

1940

Curtain Call

as Helen Middleton

1940

Married and in Love

as Helen Yates

1939

Sorority House

as Dotty Spencer

1938

Midnight Intruder

as Patricia Hammond

1938

The Crime of Doctor Hallet

as Claire Saunders

1939

The Spellbinder

as Janet Marlowe

1942

Too Many Women

as Linda Pearson

1946

Death Valley

as Mitzi

1942

Rubber Racketeers

as Mary Dale

1937

The Mighty Treve

as Aileen Fenno

1947

Ginger

as Peggy Sullivan (as Barbara Reed)

1937

Merry Go Round of 1938

as Clarice Stockbridge

1937

Production

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