Here is the biography of Lynn Bari:
Marjorie Schuyler Fisher, better known as Lynn Bari, was a curvaceous, dark-haired WWII pin-up beauty and "B" film star. Born on December 18, 1919, in Roanoke, Virginia, she moved to Boston with her mother and elder brother after her father's death in 1927. Her mother remarried a minister, and the family relocated to California when her stepfather was assigned a ministry in Los Angeles.
Bari paid her dues for years as a snappy bit-part chorine, secretary, party girl, and/or glorified extra while being groomed as a starlet under contract to MGM and Fox. Her first released film was the MGM comedy Meet the Baron (1933),in which she provided typical window dressing as a collegian.
In 1937, she received her first billing on screen for a minor part as "Miss Fenwick" in Lancer Spy. Although more bit parts were to dribble in, the year 1938 proved to be her breakthrough year. She finally gained some ground playing the "other woman" role in glossy soaps and musicals, first giving Barbara Stanwyck some trouble in Always Goodbye (1938).
Fox Studios finally handed her some smart co-leads and top supports in such second-tier films as The Return of the Cisco Kid (1939),Pack Up Your Troubles (1939),Hotel for Women (1939),and Hollywood Cavalcade (1939). Anxiously waiting for "the big one", she made do with her strong looks, tending toward unsympathetic parts.
She enjoyed the attention she received playing disparaging society ladies, divas, villainesses, and even a strong-willed prairie flower in such films as Pier 13 (1940),Earthbound (1940),Kit Carson (1940),and Sun Valley Serenade (1941),but they did little to advance her in the ranks.
The very best role of her frisky career came with the grade "A" comedy The Magnificent Dope (1942),in which she shared top billing with Henry Fonda and Don Ameche. But good roles were hard to find in Lynn's case, and she good-naturedly took whatever was given her.
With diminishing offers for film parts by the 1950s, she started leaning heavily towards stage and TV work. She continued her career until the late '60s and then retired. Her last work included the film The Young Runaways (1968) and TV episodes of "The Girl from U.N.C.L.E." and "The F.B.I."
