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Biography
Gertrude Maud Barnes (25 March 1903 – 27 July 1998), known professionally as Binnie Barnes, was an English actress whose career in films spanned 50 years, from 1923 to 1973.
Career
Barnes was born in Islington, London, the daughter of Rosa Enoyce and George Barnes, a policeman. There were 16 children in her family. Before moving to Hollywood to become an actress, Barnes worked a series of jobs, such as chorus girl, nurse, and dance hostess.
She began her acting career in films in 1923, appearing in a short film made by Lee De Forest in his Phonofilm sound-on-film process. Her film career continued in Great Britain, most notably in The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933) as Katherine Howard, Henry's fifth wife. Barnes' main qualm in accepting roles as an actress was that she not play submissive roles. Barnes once remarked "One picture is just like another to me, as long as I don't have to be a sweet woman". Later, her career continued in Hollywood, until 1973, when she appeared in the comedy 40 Carats, her last acting role.
Movies & TV shows
1973.
1 Movie
40 Carats
1973
After an overnight fling with a man nearly 20 years her junior while vacationing in Greece, Ann Stanley returns to New York assuming she'll never see Peter Latham again. Until, that is, he shows up on...
1968.
1 Movie
Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows
1968
Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows (1968) is a movie comedy starring Rosalind Russell and Stella Stevens. The film is a sequel to The Trouble with Angels (1966) and was written by Blanche Hanalis from a...
1966.
1 Movie
The Trouble with Angels
1966
Mary and her friend, Rachel, are new students at St. Francis Academy, a boarding school run by the iron fist of Mother Superior. The immature teens grow bored and begin playing pranks on both the unsu...
1958.
1 TV show
TV
The Donna Reed Show
6
1958
The Donna Reed Show is an American situation comedy starring Donna Reed as the upper-middle-class housewife Donna Stone. Carl Betz co-stars as her pediatrician husband Dr. Alex Stone, and Shelley Faba...
1956.
1 Movie
Thunderstorm
1956
A luminously beautiful, provocative young woman is rescued near a small fishing village on the Spanish coast. The scene is set for a drama of dangerous passion that threatens to tear apart the simple,...
1954.
1 Movie
Fire Over Africa
1954
Maureen O'Hara hunts drug smugglers in Africa. Director Richard Sale's 1954 film also stars Macdonald Carey and Binnie Barnes.
1953.
1 Movie
Decameron Nights
1953
Italian poet Boccaccio (Louis Jourdan) hides in the court of Fiammetta (Joan Fontaine) and tells three tales of love and lust.
1950.
2 Movies · 2 TV shows
TV
Your Show of Shows
1950
Your Show of Shows was a live 90-minute variety show that was broadcast weekly in the United States on NBC, from February 25, 1950, until June 5, 1954, featuring Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca.
Other fe...
TV
Lux Video Theatre
1950
Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and...
Fugitive Lady
1950
A man drives his car off a cliff in an apparent suicide. One insurance investigator is not so sure it was an accident or suicide and gets 48 hours to prove his case.
Shadow of the Eagle
1950
During the eighteenth century the Empress of Russia sends her lover to kidnap her rival for the throne.
1949.
2 Movies
The Pirates of Capri
1949
A group of men calling themselves 'The Pirates of Capri", headed by Captain Sirroco, who is really Count Amalfi, are trying to restore freedom to the people of Naples. The Queen is advised of the pira...
My Own True Love
1949
Following World War II, a woman tries to help her fiance understand his son's traumatic experience as a G.I., during which he lost a leg and was imprisoned in a Japanese POW camp.
1948.
1 Movie
The Dude Goes West
1948
Daniel Bone is aiming for success. A Brooklyn gunsmith by trade, he figures the place to be is where the guns are. So off he goes into the West and becomes the foe of the notorious Pecos Kid, the capt...
1947.
2 Movies
If Winter Comes
1947
It's 1939 in the small English town of Penny Green and events in Poland are about to change lives. Mark Sabre, a writer of school text books, has married Mabel "on the rebound", after his real love No...
1946.
1 Movie
The Time of Their Lives
1946
Two ghosts who were mistakenly branded as traitors during the Revolutionary War return to 20th century New England to retieve a letter from George Washington which would prove their innocence.
1945.
3 Movies
Getting Gertie's Garter
1945
Dennis O'Keefe, newly married to lovely Sheila Ryan, is in a jam. O'Keefe's former girl friend, exotic dancer Marie McDonald, has in her possession an expensive, jeweled garter given to her by O'Keefe...
It's in the Bag!
1945
The ringmaster of a flea circus inherits a fortune...if he can find which chair it's hidden in.
The Spanish Main
1945
Laurent van Horn is the leader of a band of Dutch refugees on a ship seeking freedom in the Carolinas, when the ship is wrecked on the coast of Cartagene. governed by Don Juan Alvardo, Spainish ruler....
1944.
3 Movies
Up in Mabel's Room
1944
Newly-married Gary Ainsworth (Dennis O'Keefe) once gave his former sweetheart Mabel (Gail Patrick) a sexy negligee with his initials embroidered in the lacework. It is Gary's unenviable task to retrie...
The Hour Before the Dawn
1944
A beautiful Austrian refugee in England--who is also a Nazi agent--marries a scholarly English pacifist. He lives near a secret military base she needs to get information about so she can help in Hitl...
Barbary Coast Gent
1944
Honest Plush Brannon is a con-man thrown out of the Barbary Coast in San Francisco in the 1880s and headed for the gold rush region of Nevada. He discovers a real mine which lead to several complicati...
1943.
1 Movie
The Man from Down Under
1943
An Australian blowhard raises two orphaned children as his own in the years leading up to WWII.
1942.
3 Movies
Call Out the Marines
1942
Two Marine sergeants (Victor McLaglen, Edmund Lowe) flirt with a cafe girl (Binnie Barnes) in San Diego, then find out she's a spy.
I Married an Angel
1942
A playboy drops his many girlfriends when he falls in love with a grounded angel.
In Old California
1942
Boston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss Britt Dawson, who exacts protection payment from the citizenry. Dawson frames Craig with poisoned medicine,...
1941.
5 Movies
Tight Shoes
1941
A crook with big feet buys shoes that are too tight from a salesman, then decides to use the store as a front for illegal gambling.
New Wine
1941
The 1941 biographical musical composer melodrama was based on the life of composer Franz Schubert.
Three Girls About Town
1941
Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the mortician's convention is arriving, and the sister...
Skylark
1941
As her fifth wedding anniversary approaches, a woman realizes that she is fed up with always coming in second to her husband's advertising business. Just at the moment when she is trying to decide wha...
Angels with Broken Wings
1941
Charlotte Lord, a widow in her early forties and owner of Manhattan's smartest modiste shop, is about to marry Guy Barton, a wealthy businessman. But Mexican divorces have been declared illegal, so Gu...
1940.
2 Movies
'Til We Meet Again
1940
Dying Joan Ames meets criminal Dan Hardesty on a luxury liner as he is being transported back to America by policeman Steve Burke to face execution. Joan and Dan fall in love, their fates unbeknownst ...
This Thing Called Love
1940
Two professional people marry, but the wife insists that they be celibate for the first three months to make sure they are truly compatible.
1939.
5 Movies
Man About Town
1939
Producer Bob Temple, who's brought an American show to London, loves his star Diana, but she won't take him seriously as a lover. To show her, he picks up stranger Lady Arlington, whose financier husb...
Wife, Husband and Friend
1939
Woman hopes to be a great singer and is encouraged by her scheming teacher. After she flops her husband, encouraged by an amorous professional singer tries opera and also flops.
The Three Musketeers
1939
A parodic remake of the story of the young Gascon D'Artagnan, who arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king's Musketeers. He is taken under the wings of three of the most respected and feare...
Day-time Wife
1939
When a young wife discovers her husband of two years is involved with his beautiful secretary, she applies for a job as secretary to a business rival.
Frontier Marshal
1939
Wyatt Earp agrees to become marshal and establish order in Tombstone in this very romanticized version of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
1938.
9 Movies
The First Hundred Years
1938
David and Lynn are a happily married couple. When David gets his dream job in another state, Lynn, a high-powered executive, doesn't want to leave NYC and her job
Holiday
4.67
1938
Johnny Case, a freethinking financier, has finally found the girl of his dreams — Julia Seton, the spoiled daughter of a socially prominent millionaire — and she's agreed to marry him. But when Johnny...
Three Blind Mice
1938
Three sisters take their small inheritance and move from Kansas to California in search of rich husbands. To start with Pamela poses as a socialite and Moira and Elizabeth pretend to be her staff.
Tropic Holiday
1938
A screenwriter falls in love with a Mexican woman while searching for a story line south of the border.
Gateway
1938
Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists the amours of another passenger, charges result in her being detained at Ellis Island.
The Adventures of Marco Polo
1938
Gary Cooper plays the Venetian traveler who foils a plot to blow up the Chinese government in medieval China.
The Divorce of Lady X
1938
The morning after a London barrister lets a mystery woman stay in his suite, a friend files for divorce.
Always Goodbye
1938
After the death of her fiancée, Margot Weston is left pregnant and unmarried. Jim Howard helped the desperate Margot. Jim helped her find a home for the baby with Phil Marshall and his wife. Neither t...
Thanks for Everything
1938
Promoters set up a radio contest to find the average American and use him to sell food, apparel and notions. All goes well until he falls in love with a girl who upsets things.
1937.
2 Movies
Broadway Melody of 1938
1937
Steve Raleight wants to produce a show on Broadway. He finds a backer, Herman Whipple and a leading lady, Sally Lee. But Caroline Whipple forces Steve to use a known star, not a newcomer. Sally purcha...
1936.
4 Movies
The Last of the Mohicans
1936
The story is set in the British province of New York during the French and Indian War, and concerns—in part—a Huron massacre (with passive French acquiescence) of between 500 to 1,500 Anglo-American t...
Sutter's Gold
1936
Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.
Three Smart Girls
5.86
1936
The three Craig sisters Penny, Kay, and Joan, go to New York to stop their divorced father from marrying gold digger Donna Lyons and re-unite him with their mother.
Small Town Girl
1936
Kay is a girl living in a small rural town whose life is just too dull and repetitious to bear. One night, she meets young, handsome, and rich Bob Dakin, who asks her for directions while drunk and th...
1935.
4 Movies
A Dream Comes True
1935
A promotional short to hype the production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935).
La Fiesta de Santa Barbara
1935
Hollywood stars participate in a Mexican-themed revue and festival in Santa Barbara. Andy Devine, the "World's Greatest Matador", engages in a bullfight with a dubious bovine supplied by Señor Keaton,...
1934.
6 Movies
The Private Life of Don Juan
1934
What do women want? Don Juan is aging. He's arrived secretly in Seville after a 20 year absence. His wife Dolores, whom he hasn't lived with in five years, still loves him. He refuses to see her; he f...
Forbidden Territory
1934
Britisher Sir Charles Farrington and a son, Rex Farrington, arrive in a Russian Soviet territory searching for another Farrington son, Michael,who has been thrown into prison. Valarie Perrovna is a si...
One Exciting Adventure
1934
One Exciting Adventure is a 1934 American comedy film directed by Ernst L. Frank. It is a remake of the 1933 German film What Women Dream.
The Lady Is Willing
1934
In this comedy-mystery, a private detective helps three businessmen get even with the man who misused their investments. The detective plans to kidnap the man's wife so he can get her signature and re...
There's Always Tomorrow
1934
Ignored by his ever-busy wife and children, a middle-aged businessman finds companionship with a former female employee.
1933.
4 Movies
The Private Life of Henry VIII
1933
Renowned for his excess, King Henry VIII goes through a series of wives during his rule. With Anne Boleyn, his second wife, executed on charges of treason, King Henry weds maid Jane Seymour, but that ...
Counsel's Opinion
1933
Divorce barrister Logan arrives back in London from a trip overseas to find the whole city fogbound. Unable to reach his flat, he books into the exclusive Royal Parks Hotel. Leslie sweet-talks Logan i...
Their Night Out
1933
An evening of cocktails and frolicking lands a chap in hot water when he's suspected of masterminding a criminal gang!
1932.
3 Movies
The Last Coupon
1932
A frugal coal miner turns into a spendthrift when he wins £20,000 on the football pools!
Old Spanish Customers
1932
A henpecked husband is mistaken for a famous toreador while holidaying in Spain!
1931.
2 Movies
Night in Montmartre
1931
A young couple live under a café in Paris that, unknown to them, is owned by a brutal blackmailer. When he is murdered, they fall under suspicion. However, the husband's father, an amateur detective, ...
Out of the Blue
1931
Impoverished aristocrat's daughter Tommy Tucker is in love with radio announcer Bill Coverdale, but he is engaged to her more glamorous sister Angela, who he does not love. Seeking escape from this ho...
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