Barbara Jo Allen
Birthday
1906/09/02
Day of death
1974/09/14 (68 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Also know as
Vera Vague, Marian Barbara Henshall
Biography
From Wikipedia Barbara Jo Allen (September 2, 1906 – September 14, 1974) was an actress also known as Vera Vague, the spinster character she created and portrayed on radio and in films during the 1940s and 1950s. She based the character on a woman she had seen delivering a PTA literature lecture in a confused manner. As Vague, she popularized the catch phrase "You dear boy!" Allen's acting ability first surfaced in school plays. Following her high school graduation, she went to Paris to study ...Read more
Acting
(1959) Sleeping Beauty
as Fauna (voice)
(1940) The Mad Doctor
as Louise Watkins (as Barbara Allen [Vera Vague])
(1939) Moving Vanities
as Mrs. Errol
(1942) Larceny, Inc.
as Mademoiselle Gloria
(1960) Goliath II
as Goliath II's Mother
(1944) Girl Rush
as Suzie Banks
(1941) Kiss the Boys Goodbye
as Myra Stanhope
(1941) Ice-Capades
as Vera Vague
(1959) Born to Be Loved
as Irene Hoffman
(1942) Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
as Tabitha Hazy
(1945) Snafu
as Madge Stevens
(1956) Mohawk
as Aunt Agatha
(1944) Moon Over Las Vegas
as Auntie
(1944) Rosie the Riveter
as Vera Watson
(1944) Henry Aldrich Plays Cupid
as Mrs. Terwilliger ("Blue Eyes")
(1939) The Women
as Receptionist (uncredited)
(1946) Hiss and Yell
as Vera Vague
(1940) Village Barn Dance
as Vera Vague
(1946) Earl Carroll Sketchbook
as Sherry Lane
(1940) Broadway Melody of 1940
as Ms. Konk (uncredited)
(1942) Ice Capades Revue
as Aunt Nellie
(1940) Melody and Moonlight
as Adelaide Barnett
(1950) Square Dance Katy
as Gypsy Jones
(1940) Sing, Dance, Plenty Hot
as Susan
(1943) Get Going
as Matilda Jones
(1941) Buy Me That Town
as Henriette Teagarden
(1944) Cowboy Canteen
as Vera Vague
(1956) The Opposite Sex
as Dolly DeHaven
(1940) Melody Ranch
as Veronica Whipple
(1956) Columbia Laff Hour
as Vera Vague (archive footage)
(1944) Lake Placid Serenade
as Countess
(1952) Happy Go Wacky
as Vera Vague
(1944) Strife of the Party
as Vera Clayton
(1944) She Snoops to Conquer
as Vera
(1945) Calling All Fibbers
as Vera Vague
(1943) You Dear Boy!
as Vera
(1945) The Jury Goes Round 'n' Round
as Vera Vague
(1944) Doctor, Feel My Pulse
as Vera Vague
(1946) Reno-Vated
as Vera Butts
(1947) Cupid Goes Nuts
as Vera Vague / Prudy Vague
(1946) Headin' for a Weddin'
as Vera Vague
(1949) Miss in a Mess
as Vera Vague
(1949) Clunked in the Clink
as Vera Vague
(1950) Nursie Behave
as Vera Vague
(1949) Wha' Happen?
as Vera
(1951) She Took a Powder
as Vera Vague
(1942) Priorities on Parade
as Mariposa Ginsbotham
(1963) The Sword in the Stone
as Scullery Maid (voice) (uncredited)
(1941) Design for Scandal
as Janie
(1943) Swing Your Partner
as Vera Vague
(1939) Kennedy the Great
as Mrs. John Potter
(1991) Disney’s Coyote Tales
as Goliath II’s Mother (voice)
(1974) The Three Stooges Follies
as Vera Clayton (archive footage)
(1960) Surfside 6
as ---
(1953) General Electric Theater
as Mrs. Parkinson
(1957) Maverick
as Celia Mallaver
(1954) The George Gobel Show
as Self