Joanna Barnes

[johnbear]

Joanna Barnes
Born: November 15, 1934 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0055645/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

[sidaris]

Joanna Barnes - Coppertone ad

[tsunamiSD]

Joanna Barnes, only one picture of her found in this thread - that by Sidaris - and it was a shampoo advert. Here are ones that are mostly from "Tarzan the Ape Man", with Denny Miller in the lead role.

[johnbear]

[cuzzyman927]

[Findcandor]

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This 1957 article has quoted the then-22-
year-old as stating, "My clothes stay on,
gentlemen; no cheesecake pictures, please."
Spoilsport!


I wanted to share with you these views of Joanna Barnes from "Elly Starts to School," a 1963 episode of The Beverly Hillbillies. While I was not consciously aware of this actress (naturally I've seen her in action, although she was yet another who failed to register), I was impressed with how she carried herself. Joanna played a snobby high society girl (who gets conned by Clampett-protective Miss Hathaway into thinking new student Elly May is the latest in haute couture), and she mouthed an unusually interesting stuck-up accent. The lady had comic ability, but of course, she was a fine dramatic performer as well.


Doris Packer played her mother


With the wonderful Nancy Kulp, who played Miss Hathaway, in the third photo.





In the last below, Joanna is seen with her posse, the seldom-heard-of Judi Sherven (second from left; preparation for this post led to a post on Judi), and I believe that is Sharon Tate at left.




Joanna and Sharon would be reunited four years later in Don't Make Waves. Joanna played the neglected wife of Robert Webber whose mistress is Claudia Cardinale, and then Tony Curtis butts in. Sharon Tate (at far left below) played "Malibu," and her scenes on a trampoline were simply magical.


Also in the cast was former Mr. Universe David
Draper, who played an empty-headed muscleman.


Look at the sheer beauty of Joanna Barnes in the shot below. (Other lass, Joanna Cameron, is dreamy, too.) The still is from B.S. I Love You (1971), where an ad man who lives to snatch snatch has an affair with his boss lady (Joanna), and her daughter as well (the other Joanna).




Joanna's most famous role was probably in The Parent Trap (1961), as the golddigger set to marry the father of twin girls, who conspire to have their parents reconcile and thus make life hell for the bride-to-be. The film was remade in 1998 with Lindsay Lohan, and Ms. Barnes returned as the mother of her former character (second shot). In the last photo, she is seen attending the remake's Los Angeles premiere at Mann National Theatre, and she looked pretty snazzy for a sixty-four-year-old.

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Joanna was one of those actresses who was lucky, even though big stardom eluded her. For example, after getting started in 1956, she was hired for six different titles in 1957, and in one TV show, she appeared in a second episode that same year; she simply galloped out of the starting gate, with her streak continuing in 1958 (eight titles), and she found room for three other titles in 1959, even though she was kept busy working on a series (eleven episodes' worth in that one year alone).



One of the 1959 titles was Tarzan the Ape Man, a low-budgeted film that was apparently not received well (interestingly, only four actors received screen credit), and yet it is notable for VEF'ers because Joanna's sex appeal as "Jane" was on display.


In the first photo, actor Cesare Danova got knocked around by Ape Man Dennis Miller, a 6'4" basketball player who made
a pretty good run as an actor, although I've never heard of him. As for the next two, nothing like Tarzan and Jane swimming
to spark interest in a Tarzan movie. Of course, what really lured the audiences in for this one were the "Dancing Hippos."

In 1960, she was in twelve different titles, which was ridiculous. One was Maverick, in which she appeared five different times (twice in 1960)...



This is the MAVERICK episode entitled
"The Resurrection of Joe November," and
pictured are James Garner and Charles
Maxwell.

...And in that same year of 1960, she hit paydirt while appearing as a "degenerate Roman lady... Delicious part," in her words, in the hit film Spartacus. When the Boston Social Register learned she was an actress, apparently from this film, they dropped her.


First photo, left to right: John Gavin (as Julius Caesar), Joanna Barnes, Tony Curtis,
Kirk Douglas, Jean Simmons, Laurence Olivier, Peter Ustinov, Nina Foch, John Dall
and Charles Laughton. Our lady is between Foch and Ustinov in the second photo.


A smattering of her other roles include Judd for the Defense ("The Holy Ground," 1969, pictured with Paul Henreid), The Trials of O'Brien ("What Can Go Wrong," 1965, pictured with Peter Falk and Roger Moore), a TV series with a pre-Columbo Falk playing a defense attorney, and one where Joanna appeared for eleven episodes, or half the show's run. Two of the episodes were combined to make a 1966 movie called Too Many Thieves, (last shot) and Joanna was recruited to show her sexy side, here. (Britt Ekland reportedly played a damsel in distress in this one.)

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Her name was Lola in 1967's The War Wagon, seen here (first photo) on location in Mexico with John Wayne and Kirk Douglas; she was what has been described as the "enslaved wife" of a thief character, played by Keenan Wynn. Next, looking pretty in a swimsuit while posing for a shoot, probably during the 1950s. Last, at the opening of the 721 Club in Beverly Hills, 1972. After getting divorced from her second husband in 1967 — her third marriage in 1980 lasted until that man's death in 2012 — she was living it up and socializing. One of the shameless hussy's dates in 1971 was Henry Kissinger.

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Joanna also worked as an author; pictured below is the cover of her first book from 1970 called The Deceivers, a saucy Hollywood exposé. (A New York Times critic described her as "Jacqueline Susann with a brain.") She followed up with three more novels, the last being published in 1985. The second photo is a screenshot from the second part of a Seattle Today 1982 interview that has been put up on YouTube (Part 1 and Part 2), where she discusses her craft as a writer, and other topics.

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The lovely lady died last year from cancer, at the age of eighty-seven. (Her New York Times obituary.)




In a 1970 McCLOUD episode called "Solid
Gold Swingers," Joanna loosened up and
finally showed off skin (yeah, right).













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