Joanna Barnes
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- November 15, 1934
- Died
- April 29, 2022 (aged 87)
- Birthplace
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Biography
Barnes' initial appearance on television was in the episode "The Man Who Beat Lupo" on Ford Theatre. She made guest appearances on many television series, including the ABC/Warner Bros. programs 77 Sunset Strip and Maverick, CBS's Have Gun - Will Travel, What's My Line, and the crime drama Richard Diamond, Private Detective. In 1960-61, she guest-starred on The Untouchables episode "90 Proof Dame" as the wife of a French exporter of brandy. Barnes appeared as Kate Henniger, with Bing Russell and Arthur Space in the 1958 episode "Ghost Town" of the ABC/WB Western series Colt .45, starring Wayde Preston. In 1959, she portrayed Lola in the NBC detective series 21 Beacon Street. In the 1960s, Barnes worked for producer Martin Ransohoff and appeared in episodes of his The Beverly Hillbillies ("Elly Goes to School" and "The Clampett Look") and was billed as special guest-star. Barnes played Peter Falk's former wife on the 1965–1966 CBS series The Trials of O'Brien and was host of the ABC daytime talk show Dateline: Hollywood in 1967. She was also a frequent panelist in the early years of the syndicated version of What's My Line?. On December 19, 1972, Barnes appeared on The Merv Griffin Show with Joan Fontaine, Zsa Zsa Gabor and Dan Martino (founder of the Dan Martino School for Men). Barnes moved to Los Angeles soon after finishing her education, and took up a contract with Columbia Pictures. She went on to have roles in more than 20 films. Among her most remembered roles is the snooty Gloria Upson in the film Auntie Mame, which earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination for New Star of the Year. Barnes became the 13th actress to play Jane when she appeared in Tarzan, the Ape Man, with Denny Miller as Tarzan. In Disney's original 1961 version of The Parent Trap starring Hayley Mills, Barnes played gold-digger Vicki Robinson, who temporarily comes between Maureen O'Hara and Brian Keith. In the 1998 remake starring Lindsay Lohan, she played Vicki Blake, the mother of the child-hating gold-digger and fiancee Meredith Blake (Elaine Hendrix). As well, she appeared in The War Wagon, a western movie starring John Wayne and Kirk Douglas. Barnes was also a writer and columnist. In 1973, she told newspaper columnist Dick Kleiner that she liked writing because "it is something you do yourself. With acting, if you win an Oscar or an Emmy, you have to thank everybody. If you write a book, it is completely your own." She wrote a book, titled Starting from Scratch, about home decorating and several novels, including The Deceivers, Who Is Carla Hart?, Pastora, and Silverwood. She wrote a weekly book review for the Los Angeles Times, and her column "Touching Home" was carried by The Chicago Tribune and the New York News Syndicate.
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Filmography
The Parent Trap
Movie · as Vicki Blake
A Down Home Country Christmas
Movie · as Mrs. Fullbright
Mackendrick: The Man Who Walked Away
Movie · as Self
Murder, She Wrote
TV · as Lydia Barnett · 1 ep
Secrets of a Mother and Daughter
Movie · as Carina
Remington Steele
TV · as Claudette Crockett · 1 ep
Cheers
TV · as Valerie Crandell · 1 ep
Farewell to the Planet of the Apes
Movie · as Carsia
When the Whistle Blows
TV · 1 ep
Trapper John, M.D.
TV · 1 ep
Hart to Hart
TV · as Rosemary · 1 ep
Fantasy Island
TV · as Liz Perry, Miss Betty Wendover · 1 ep
The Betty White Show
TV · as Connie · 1 ep
Quincy, M.E.
TV · as Margo Bentley · 1 ep
Charlie's Angels
TV · as Julia Lathrop · 1 ep
I Wonder Who's Killing Her Now?
Movie · as Clarice Oliver
S.W.A.T.
TV · 1 ep
Ellery Queen
TV · 1 ep
Matt Helm
TV · as Hannah Bigelow · 1 ep
Barney Miller
TV · as Miss Caroline Fitzjames · 2 eps
Planet of the Apes
TV · as Carsia · 1 ep
Cool Million
TV · as Elizabeth Karinakis · 1 ep
B.S. I Love You
Movie · as Jane Ink
Alias Smith and Jones
TV · 2 eps
Nanny and the Professor
TV · 1 ep
McCloud
TV · as Karen Chandler · 1 ep
Marcus Welby, M.D.
TV · as Laura Daniels, Noreen Saunders · 1 ep
Hawaii Five-O
TV · as Bonnie Soames · 1 ep
The Name of the Game
TV · as Ardith Williams · 1 ep
Don't Make Waves
Movie · as Diane Prescott
The War Wagon
Movie · as Lola
Mannix
TV · 1 ep
Too Many Thieves
Movie · as Katie
The Trials of O'Brien
TV · as Katie O'Brien · 22 eps
Goodbye Charlie
Movie · as Janie Highland
Philbert (Three's a Crowd)
Movie · as Angela
Arrest and Trial
TV · as Melinda Parsons · 1 ep
Vacation Playhouse
TV · 1 ep
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
TV · as Connie · 1 ep
The Beverly Hillbillies
TV · as Cynthia Fenwick · 2 eps
Sam Benedict
TV · as Cordelia Montagne · 1 ep
The Parent Trap
Movie · as Vicky Robinson
The Purple Hills
Movie · as Amy Carter
Cain's Hundred
TV · as Carol Tredman · 1 ep
Target: The Corruptors!
TV · 1 ep
Dr. Kildare
TV · as Dr. Suzanne Shary · 1 ep
The Investigators
TV · as Georgette · 1 ep
Spartacus
Movie · as Claudia Marius
The Tab Hunter Show
TV · 1 ep
Tarzan, the Ape Man
Movie · as Jane
Mr. Lucky
TV · 1 ep
Hawaiian Eye
TV · 1 ep
Philip Marlowe
TV · 1 ep
Adventures in Paradise
TV · as Diane Winthrope · 1 ep
Laramie
TV · 1 ep
21 Beacon Street
TV · as Joanna · 13 eps
The Untouchables
TV · as Marcie McKuen · 1 ep
Auntie Mame
Movie · as Gloria Upson
Violent Road
Movie · as Lawrence's Wife
Home Before Dark
Movie · as Cathy Bergner
77 Sunset Strip
TV · as Lisa Cabot · 1 ep
No Time to Be Young
Movie · as Jeannie
The Garment Jungle
Movie · as Model (uncredited)
Maverick
TV · as Mary Shane, Mrs. Baxter, Abby Taylor, Daphne Tolliver, Felice de Lassignac #1 · 1 ep
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
TV · as Joyce Long · 1 ep
The Real McCoys
TV · 1 ep
M Squad
TV · as Tammy Worth · 1 ep
Have Gun, Will Travel
TV · as Penelope Lacey · 1 ep
Alcoa Theatre
TV · as Eve Freemont · 1 ep
Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers
TV · 1 ep
Cheyenne
TV · as Alice Claney · 1 ep
The Millionaire
TV · as Karen Summers · 1 ep
General Electric Theater
TV · as Princess Camilla · 1 ep
What's My Line?
TV · as Self · 1 ep