Binnie Barnes

Born: 1903-03-25

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Gittel Enoyce "Binnie" Barnes (25 May 1903 – 27 July 1998), later known as Gertrude Maude Barnes, was an English actress. She was born in Islington to a Jewish father and an Italian mother and was brought up as a Jew. She worked on a farm and in hospital as a probationer. She then became a ballroom dancer and Tex McLeod's stage partner. Later she was in cabaret and revue. 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 Britain, then in Hollywood, until 1973, with her final role in the comedy 40 Carats. Her most famous film was probably The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933), starring Charles Laughton in the title role, with Barnes as Katherine Howard. She was married to film producer Mike Frankovich and became an American citizen. They adopted three children. She died of natural causes at the age of 95 in Beverly Hills, California, in 1998, survived by her three children, including production manager Mike Frankovich Jr. and producer Peter Frankovich. Her interment was in Glendale's Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery. Description above from the Wikipedia article Binnie Barnes, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


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The Trouble with Angels

as Sister Celestine
Released: 1966-03-29

Mary and her friend, Rachel, are new students at St. Francis Academy, a boarding school run by...

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Holiday

as Laura Cram
Released: 1938-05-26

Johnny Case, a freethinking financier, has finally found the girl of his dreams — Julia Seton,...

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The Private Life of Henry VIII

as Katherine Howard
Released: 1933-08-17

Renowned for his excess, King Henry VIII goes through a series of wives during his rule. With...

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The Spanish Main

as Anne Bonney
Released: 1945-10-01

Laurent van Horn is the leader of a band of Dutch refugees on a ship seeking freedom in the...

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The Last of the Mohicans

as Alice Munro
Released: 1936-07-02

The story is set in the British province of New York during the French and Indian War, and...

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Broadway Melody of 1938

as Caroline Whipple
Released: 1937-08-20

Steve Raleight wants to produce a show on Broadway. He finds a backer, Herman Whipple and a...

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40 Carats

as Maud Ericson
Released: 1973-06-28

After an overnight fling with a man nearly 20 years her junior while vacationing in Greece, Ann...

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The Time of Their Lives

as Mildred Dean
Released: 1946-08-13

Two ghosts, who were mistakenly branded as traitors during the Revolutionary War, return to 20th...

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The Divorce of Lady X

as Lady Claire Mere
Released: 1938-01-15

The morning after a London barrister lets a mystery woman stay in his suite, a friend files for...

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Small Town Girl

as Priscilla Hyde
Released: 1936-04-10

Kay is a girl living in a small rural town whose life is just too dull and repetitious to bear....

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Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows

as Sister Celestine
Released: 1968-04-10

Mother Superior of St. Francis Academy is challenged by a modern young nun when they take the...

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In Old California

as Lacey Miller
Released: 1942-05-31

Boston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss...

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La Fiesta de Santa Barbara

as Self
Released: 1935-12-07

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The Adventures of Marco Polo

as Nazama
Released: 1938-04-07

The Venetian traveler Marco Polo meets Kublai Khan and foils a plotter with fireworks in...

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The Three Musketeers

as Milady De Winter
Released: 1939-02-17

A parodic remake of the story of the young Gascon D'Artagnan, who arrives in Paris, his heart...

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The Pirates of Capri

as Queen Maria Carolina
Released: 1949-12-25

A group of men calling themselves 'The Pirates of Capri", headed by Captain Sirroco, who is...

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Up in Mabel's Room

as Alicia Larchmont
Released: 1944-09-12

Newly-married Gary Ainsworth (Dennis O'Keefe) once gave his former sweetheart Mabel (Gail...

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The Private Life of Don Juan

as Rosita, a Maid Pure and Simple
Released: 1934-01-01

What do women want? Don Juan is aging. He's arrived secretly in Seville after a 20 year absence....

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'Til We Meet Again

as Comtesse de Bresac
Released: 1940-04-20

Dying Joan Ames meets criminal Dan Hardesty on a luxury liner as he is being transported back to...

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The Hour Before the Dawn

as May Hetherton
Released: 1944-05-10

A beautiful Austrian refugee in England--who is also a Nazi agent--marries a scholarly English...

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Decameron Nights

as Comtesse di Firenze / Nerina / Old Witch
Released: 1953-01-13

Italian poet Boccaccio (Louis Jourdan) hides in the court of Fiammetta (Joan Fontaine) and tells...

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One Exciting Adventure

as Rena Sorel
Released: 1934-09-01

One Exciting Adventure is a 1934 American comedy film directed by Ernst L. Frank. It is a remake...

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Three Smart Girls

as Donna Lyons
Released: 1936-12-20

The three Craig sisters – Penny, Kay, and Joan – go to New York to stop their divorced father...

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Legends of the West

as Jerry in 'Frontier Marshall'
Released: 1992-09-08

Host Jack Palance explores how Hollywood has depicted Western legends like George Armstrong...

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It's in the Bag!

as Eve Floogle
Released: 1945-04-21

The ringmaster of a flea circus inherits a fortune...if he can find which chair it's hidden in.

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The Dude Goes West

as Kiki Kelly
Released: 1948-05-30

Daniel Bone is aiming for success. A Brooklyn gunsmith by trade, he figures the place to be is...

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Rendezvous

as Olivia Karloff
Released: 1935-10-25

A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies.

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Fugitive Lady

as Esther Clementi
Released: 1950-05-08

A man drives his car off a cliff in an apparent suicide. One insurance investigator is not so...

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Three Girls About Town

as Faith Banner
Released: 1941-10-23

Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next...

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Frontier Marshal

as Jerry
Released: 1939-07-28

Wyatt Earp agrees to become marshal and establish order in Tombstone in this very romanticized...

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Gateway

as Mrs. Fay Sims
Released: 1938-08-05

Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she...

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I Married an Angel

as Peggy
Released: 1942-07-09

A count who ignores an infatuated secretary thinks he has met his match when an angel from...

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Wife, Husband and Friend

as Cecil Carver
Released: 1939-03-03

Woman hopes to be a great singer and is encouraged by her scheming teacher. After she flops her...

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Land of Liberty

as (archive footage)
Released: 1939-06-15

This film tells the history of the United States from pre-Revolution through 1939.

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Heads We Go

as Lil Pickering
Released: 1933-07-28

A model inherits a great deal of money and pretends to be a movie star.

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The Man from Down Under

as Aggie Dawlins
Released: 1943-08-04

An Australian blowhard raises two orphaned children as his own in the years leading up to WWII.

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Thanks for Everything

as Kay Swift
Released: 1938-12-23

Promoters set up a radio contest to find the average American and use him to sell food, apparel...

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If Winter Comes

as Natalie Bagshaw
Released: 1947-12-31

The small English town of Penny Green is swarming with scandal when textbook author Mark,...

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Sutter's Gold

as Countess Elizabeth Bartoffski
Released: 1936-03-01

Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.

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The Magnificent Brute

as Della Lane
Released: 1936-10-11

A love triangle forms the basis of this drama. It all begins in a steel mill when a steel worker...

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There's Always Tomorrow

as Alice Vail
Released: 1934-11-01

Ignored by his ever-busy wife and children, a middle-aged businessman finds companionship with a...

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Getting Gertie's Garter

as Barbara
Released: 1945-11-27

Dennis O'Keefe, newly married to lovely Sheila Ryan, is in a jam. O'Keefe's former girl friend,...

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A Dream Comes True

as Herself (uncredited)
Released: 1935-12-31

A promotional short to hype the production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935).

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Barbary Coast Gent

as Lil Damish
Released: 1944-09-01

Honest Plush Brannon is a con-man thrown out of the Barbary Coast in San Francisco in the 1880s...

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Man About Town

as Lady Arlington
Released: 1939-06-29

Producer Bob Temple, who's brought an American show to London, loves his star Diana, but she...

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A Night in Montmartre

as Therese
Released: 1931-07-16

A young couple live under a café in Paris that, unknown to them, is owned by a brutal...

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Three Blind Mice

as Miriam Harrington
Released: 1938-06-18

Three sisters take their small inheritance and move from Kansas to California in search of rich...

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Angels with Broken Wings

as Sybil Barton
Released: 1941-05-27

Charlotte Lord, a widow in her early forties and owner of Manhattan's smartest modiste shop, is...

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Always Goodbye

as Harriet Martin
Released: 1938-06-24

Following the death of her fiancé, Margot Weston is left pregnant and unmarried. Former doctor...

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New Wine

as Countess Marie Duvarre
Released: 1941-09-10

The romantic story of Franz Schubert 's fight for recognition of his music. The 1941 Reinhold...

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Day-time Wife

as Blanche
Released: 1939-11-24

When a young wife discovers her husband of two years is involved with his beautiful secretary,...

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My Own True Love

as Geraldine
Released: 1948-07-01

Following World War II, a woman tries to help her fiance understand his son's traumatic...

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This Thing Called Love

as Charlotte Campbell
Released: 1940-12-20

Two professional people marry, but the wife insists that they be celibate for the first three...

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Gift of Gab

as Maid
Released: 1934-09-01

Conceited radio announcer irritates everyone else at the station.

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Shadow of the Eagle

as Catherine - Empress of Russia
Released: 1950-09-11

During the eighteenth century the Empress of Russia sends her lover to kidnap her rival for the...

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Tropic Holiday

as Marilyn Joyce
Released: 1938-06-29

A screenwriter falls in love with a Mexican woman while searching for a story line south of the...

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The First Hundred Years

as Claudia Weston
Released: 1938-03-12

David and Lynn are a happily married couple. When David gets his dream job in another state,...

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Call Out the Marines

as Violet 'Vi' Hall
Released: 1942-02-13

Two Marine sergeants (Victor McLaglen, Edmund Lowe) flirt with a cafe girl (Binnie Barnes) in...

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Blow-Ups of 1947

as Self
Released: 1947-12-31

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1947.

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Dr. Josser K.C.

as Rosa Wopp
Released: 1931-11-04

'Crook dons disguises to attempt blackmail.' (British Film Catalogue)

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Strip, Strip, Hooray!

as Spanish Lady
Released: 1932-09-26

A specialist sunbathing camp is threatened by a campaign by the leader of the 'Wear More Clothes...

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Diamond Jim

as Lillian Russell
Released: 1935-09-01

A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.

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Malaga

as Frisco
Released: 1954-06-24

A female former OSS agent is sent to Tangiers, Morocco, to infiltrate and destroy an...

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The Lady Is Willing

as Helene Dupont
Released: 1934-08-10

In this comedy-mystery, a private detective helps three businessmen get even with the man who...

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Skylark

as Myrtle Valentine
Released: 1941-11-21

As her fifth wedding anniversary approaches, a woman realizes that she is fed up with always...

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The Innocents of Chicago

as Peg Guinan
Released: 1932-03-20

A British comedy film directed by Lupino Lane

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Breezing Home

as Henrietta Fairfax
Released: 1937-02-01

Bookmakers try to fix a horse race.

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Tight Shoes

as Sybil Ash
Released: 1941-06-13

A crook with big feet buys shoes that are too tight from a salesman, then decides to use the...

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Out of the Blue

as Rosa
Released: 1931-11-05

Impoverished aristocrat's daughter Tommy Tucker is in love with radio announcer Bill Coverdale,...

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The Donna Reed Show

as uncredited
First aired: 1958-09-24

Revolves around typical family problems, such as firing a clumsy housekeeper, throwing a...

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Your Show of Shows

as uncredited
First aired: 1950-02-25

Your Show of Shows was a live 90-minute variety show that was broadcast weekly in the United...

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