Barbara Read
Birthday
1917/12/29
Day of death
1963/12/11 (45 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada
Also know as
Barbara French Read, Barbara Reed
Biography
Born in Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada, Barbara Read was the daughter of a contractor. Under contract to Columbia, she was paid but never used for a single picture. She quit in disgust. She was later signed by Universal and was cast as one of the Craig sisters inThree Smart Girls (1936) along with Deanna Durbin and Nan Grey. This was Barbara's first and best remembered film. Her career was over by the time she married actor William Talman, of "Perry Mason" fame, in 1953. The couple had two childre...Read more
Acting
(1937) Make Way for Tomorrow
as Rhoda Cooper
(1948) Coroner Creek
as Abbie Miles (as Barbara Reed)
(1936) Three Smart Girls
as Kay Craig
(1947) Key Witness
as Martha Higby (as Barbara Reed)
(1946) Behind the Mask
as Margo Lane
(1946) The Missing Lady
as Margo Lane
(1946) The Shadow Returns
as Margo Lane
(1940) Curtain Call
as Helen Middleton
(1940) Married and in Love
as Helen Yates
(1939) Sorority House
as Dotty Spencer
(1937) The Man Who Cried Wolf
as Nan
(1938) Midnight Intruder
as Patricia Hammond
(1938) The Crime of Doctor Hallet
as Claire Saunders
(1939) The Spellbinder
as Janet Marlowe
(1942) Too Many Women
as Linda Pearson
(1946) Death Valley
as Mitzi
(1942) Rubber Racketeers
as Mary Dale
(1937) The Mighty Treve
as Aileen Fenno
(1947) Ginger
as Peggy Sullivan (as Barbara Reed)
(1937) Merry Go Round of 1938
as Clarice Stockbridge
(1937) The Road Back
as Lucy