Thursday, June 19, 2008

Binnie Barnes



We just like saying her name. It should be repeated more often.


BARNES & DIRECTOR JEAN NEGULESCO c. 1940

This elegantly brassy British comedienne was featured in Charles Laughton's The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933) and Douglas Fairbanks' The Private Life of Don Juan (1934); tiring of private parts, she left England for Hollywood, and supported everyone from Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn, to Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald.


BARNES & JEANETTE MACDONALD IN I MARRIED AN ANGEL (1942)

Barnes' last few films included the Rosalind Russell "angels" movies: The Trouble with Angels (1966) and Where Angels Go...Trouble Follows (1968), as well as the Liv Ullmann/Gene Kelly vehicle Forty Carats (1973). Binnie Barnes passed away in 1998, at age 95.


PUBLICITY STILL FOR THE DUDE GOES WEST (1948)
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2 comments:

  1. Binnie KleinFebruary 2, 2009 at 7:47 PM

    I was named Binnie because my father, back in 1951, admired her in the movies.
    One day, on his travels as a salesman, he met her on a plane by accident. He told her of his daughter's name, and she gave him an 8X10 glossy photo of herself, to give to me, signed "To Binnie from Binnie" "It's been a lucky name for me."

    Thanks for remembering her -
    Binnie Klein
    New Haven, CT

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  2. TJBFebruary 2, 2009 at 9:28 PM

    Thanks for sharing a lovely story! How nice that your dad had the opportunity to meet her, and tell her of her namesake!

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