Barbara Jo Allen

Barbara Jo Allen

출생 : 1906-09-02, New York City, New York, USA

사망 : 1974-09-14

약력

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 at the Sorbonne. Concentrating on language, she became proficient in French, Spanish, German and Italian. After the death of her parents, she moved to Los Angeles where she lived with her uncle. In 1937, she debuted on network radio drama as Beth Holly on NBC's One Man's Family, followed by roles on Death Valley Days, I Love a Mystery and other radio series. According to Allen, her Vera Vague character was “sort of a frustrated female, dumb, always ambitious and overzealous… a spouting Bureau of Misinformation.” After Vera was introduced in 1939 on NBC Matinee, she became a regular with Bob Hope beginning in 1941. Allen appeared in at least 60 movies and TV series between 1938 and 1963, often credited as Vera Vague rather than her own name. The character she created was so popular that she eventually adopted the character name as her professional name. From 1943 to 1952, as Vera, she made more than a dozen comedy two-reel short subjects for Columbia Pictures. In 1948, she did less acting and instead opened her own commercial orchid business, while also serving as the Honorary Mayor of Woodland Hills, California. In 1953, as Vera, she hosted her own television series, Follow the Leader, a CBS audience participation show. In 1958, she appeared as Mabel, the boss of the flight attendants, in Jeannie Carson's syndicated version of her situation comedy Hey, Jeannie! The program aired only six episodes in syndication. Allen's first marriage was to actor Barton Yarborough. They had one child together. In 1946, the couple co-starred in the two-reel comedy short, Hiss and Yell, nominated for an Academy Award as Best Short Subject. In 1931-32, Allen married Charles H. Crosby. In 1943, she married Bob Hope's producer, Norman Morrell. They had one child and were married for three decades, until her 1974 death in Santa Barbara, California.

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Barbara Jo Allen

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Disney’s Coyote Tales
Goliath II’s Mother (voice)
Through redubbed footage of The Coyote's Lament, the coyote's relationship with man and dog is shown from the coyote's point of view, as seen in various Disney cartoons.
아더왕의 검
Scullery Maid (voice) (uncredited)
영국의 왕이 후계자를 남기지 못한 채 죽는다. 바위에서 전설의 검 엑스칼리버를 뽑는 자가 왕이 될 것이라는 예언에 따라 수많은 사람들이 칼을 뽑으려 하지만 그 누구도 성공하지 못하고, 전설의 검 엑스칼리버는 점차 사람들의 기억 속에서 잊혀진다. 한편 숲속에 사는 마법사 멀린의 제자 아더는 엑토르 경의 성에서 종자 노릇을 한다. 꿈을 크게 가지라는 멀린의 충고에도 어린 아더는 아직 우유부단하기만 하다. 새해 첫날 새로운 왕을 뽑기 위한 대회가 열리고, 대회에 종자로 따라온 아더는 칼을 잃어버린 뒤 바위에 꽂힌 칼을 빼어 갖다주게 되는데...
Goliath II
Goliath II's Mother
Goliath II is a 6-inch-tall elephant (son of the huge Goliath). He's a big disappointment to his father, but mom is proud of Goliath II anyway. Goliath II is constantly getting into trouble because he's so small. In particular, the tiger Raja looks for every opportunity to try a bite-size taste of elephant. After one incident where he ran away and his mother scolded him, he runs away. After he's rescued, the rest of the elephants are terrified of a mouse, but Goliath II stands his ground.
Born to Be Loved
Irene Hoffman
Director Hugo Haas reprises the theme of romantic love in this routine yet innocent story of matchmaking. The setting is an overcrowded tenement building in which the residents seem to live beyond the reach of muggers or drug dealers or trigger-happy gangs because they mingle and mix in the halls as they energetically interact with each other.
잠자는 숲속의 공주
Fauna (voice)
오랜 기다림 끝에 스테판 왕과 왕비 사이에 오로라 공주가 태어난다. 왕은 이 날을 축제일로 정하고 온 왕국은 기쁨에 들떠 있다. 요정 프로라, 포나, 메리웨더는 아기에게 한가지씩 축복을 내려준다. 프로라는 아름다움을, 포나는 고운 목소리를, 그리고 메리웨더가 영원히 행복하라고 축복을 내리려는 순간, 축제에 초대 받지 못한 데 앙심을 품은 악의 요정 멀레피센트가 나타나 공주가 16세 생일날 물레바늘에 손가락이 찔려 죽을 것이라는 저주를 내리고 사라진다. 왕은 공주에게 닥쳐올 재앙을 막고자 나라안의 모든 물레를 불태우라고 명령을 내리고, 요정들은 마녀의 눈을 피해 숲속에서 공주를 기르도록 왕비를 설득하는데...
The Opposite Sex
Dolly DeHaven
Former radio singer Kay learns from her gossipy friends that her husband, Steve, has had an affair with chorus girl Crystal. Devastated, Kay tries to ignore the information, but when Crystal performs one of her musical numbers at a charity benefit, she breaks down and goes to Reno to file for divorce. However, when she hears that gold-digging Crystal is making Steve unhappy, Kay resolves to get her husband back. The Opposite Sex is a remake of the 1939 comedy The Women.
Mohawk
Aunt Agatha
An artist working in a remote army post is juggling the storekeeper's daughter, his fiancée newly arrived from the east, and the Indian Chief's daughter. But when a vengeful settler manages to get the army and the braves at each other's throats his troubles really begin.
Columbia Laff Hour
Vera Vague (archive footage)
A Columbia Pictures feature, featuring 4 unedited shorts, released between 1947-1956, featuring Shemp Howard.
Happy Go Wacky
Vera Vague
Nurse Vera is hired by a patient to help him get rid of some unwelcome relatives living at his house.
She Took a Powder
Vera Vague
Vera's fiancee tries to cure her of her hypochondria.
Nursie Behave
Vera Vague
Vera Vague, in the All-StarComedy works for the district attorney, and when his two-timing fiancee and her boyfriend try some trickery, Vera steps in with some effective wrestling holds.
Square Dance Katy
Gypsy Jones
In this musical, an ambitious young singer and her band leave their small hometown to head for the Big Apple in hopes of finding fame and fortune.
Wha' Happen?
Vera
Suffering from amnesia, Vera thinks she's responsible for a burglary.
Clunked in the Clink
Vera Vague
Vera's husband thinks she ahs been killed in a plane crash, unaware she has been arrested for speeding on the way to the airport.
Miss in a Mess
Vera Vague
Vera Vague marries a man who is the twin-image of an escaped ax-murderer. The key word here is "escaped", as that guarantees that Vera will get involved with the ax-murderer thinking he is her husband.
Cupid Goes Nuts
Vera Vague / Prudy Vague
Vera plays twin sisters of opposite personalities.
Reno-Vated
Vera Butts
After Vera divorces her husband, she marries her lawyer.
Earl Carroll Sketchbook
Sherry Lane
An aspiring singer and her lover, a songwriter who has desperately resorted to writing radio jingles, have many conflicts on their road to success...
Headin' for a Weddin'
Vera Vague
Vera and Claire vie for the affections of a handsome millionaire cowboy.
Hiss and Yell
Vera Vague
Vera thinks she's witnessed a man decapitating his wife. Actually, she's only seen magician Bluebeard the Great rehearsing his act. Still convinced that the magician is a killer, Vera goes through all sorts of comic agony when she is forced to share the same train compartment with Bluebeard (who doesn't help matters when he offers her a sandwich consisting of "scrambled brains and tongue").
Calling All Fibbers
Vera Vague
Vera pretends to have been injured in an auto accident in order to get out of two conflicting engagements.
Snafu
Madge Stevens
A 14-year-old boy lies about his age and enlists in the United State Marine Corps without his family's consent or knowledge. He is sent into battle in the Pacific war-zone, decorated, and spotted in a newsreel by his family. The family asks the War Department to discharge him and send him home.
The Jury Goes Round 'n' Round
Vera Vague
Vera is one of many of a group of jurors who must work together to come up with a decision whether or not a man is guilty of murder.
She Snoops to Conquer
Vera
Vera Vague (Barbara Jo Allen) is a reporter aiming to march her editor boss down the aisle. He agrees to marry her if she can uncover a key spy. She nets a whole ring of spies.
Lake Placid Serenade
Countess
On a peaceful, pre-war winter in Czechoslovakia, the genial godfather, Jaroslav Haschek, of Vera Hascheck, presents the young girl with her first pair of ice skates. Soon, she astonished the warm-hearted people of her village with her skill, and she is acclaimed a marvel-on-ice.
Girl Rush
Suzie Banks
During the California Gold Rush, two down-on-their-luck vaudevillians attempt to become wealthy by bringing a girlie show to an all-male western mining town.
Strife of the Party
Vera Clayton
Vera Vague (Barbara Jo Allen) locks herself in her garage and has to be freed by her neighbor. Later, she discovers that the wife of her husband's boss has lost a necklace, and Vera suspects the neighbor.
Rosie the Riveter
Vera Watson
In this romantic wartime comedy, four female defense plant workers share a house with four male workers. The situation is on the up and up as the men and women work different shifts and they are only making due because there is a housing shortage. Unfortunately, they soon begin to fight about who gets the house during certain hours. Romance ensues.
Henry Aldrich Plays Cupid
Mrs. Terwilliger ("Blue Eyes")
High-school student Henry Aldrich hopes to improve his grades by finding a sweetheart for his unmarried teacher.
Moon Over Las Vegas
Auntie
A beautiful woman goes to Las Vegas in a scheme to make her husbnd jealous, but once she gets there she becomes involved with another man.
Cowboy Canteen
Vera Vague
Song and comedy revue, featuring Western talents, along with a theatrical troupe taking their vacation on the Lazy B Ranch run by Steve Bradley. Steve is about to enter the army and he and Tex Coulter compete for the love of Connie Grey.
Doctor, Feel My Pulse
Vera Vague
Vera, a hypochondriac, mistakes an escaped lunatic for a physician who can help "cure" her.
You Dear Boy!
Vera
Vera pretends to be insane in order to get out of a prearranged marriage.
Get Going
Matilda Jones
Judy King (Grace McDonald), newly arrived in Washington, applies for a secretary job with a government agency and while being interviewed by Bob Carlton (Robert Paige), an agent with the bureau, jokingly hints she may be a spy. While investigating her, he clears Judy and falls in love with her... and then uncovers a real Nazi spy ring.
Swing Your Partner
Vera Vague
Caroline Bird, the crotchety and stingy owner of Bird Milk Products, is not amused when her employees at the Dairyville factory, the oldest plant in the company, broadcast a special radio program in honor of her birthday. Employees Lulubelle, Scotty and Vera Vague, fed up with the terrible working conditions at Dairyville, cut into the broadcast, and Lulubelle asserts that Caroline is a "big hunk of cheese." Lane, the factory manager, cannot find the culprit, and so Caroline goes with her secretary, Dale Evans, to Dairyville.
Ice Capades Revue
Aunt Nellie
Promoter Ann Porter decides to start her own Ice Show despite the efforts of ex-racketeer Duke Baldwin who owns a rival show. Jeff Stewart, a rich, suave young Broadwayite, falls in love with Ann and aids her in her fight against Baldwin.
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
Tabitha Hazy
In the shanty town called the Cabbage Patch, Mrs. Wiggs scrabbles for survival with her brood of children and hopes for the return of her husband, who left many years before.
Priorities on Parade
Mariposa Ginsbotham
Band leader Johnny Draper auditions his band, the Dixie Pixies, at the Eagle Aircraft Co., hoping to be hired to play for the workers in the plant. However, personnel manager E. V. Hartley can only offer them regular jobs, and when Johnny inspires the Dixie Pixies to work in the plant, lead singer and dancer Donna D'Arcy leaves the band for a singing job at the Club Martel in downtown Los Angeles.
Larceny, Inc.
Mademoiselle Gloria
Three ex-cons buy a luggage shop to tunnel into the bank vault next door. But despite all they can do, the shop prospers...
Design for Scandal
Janie
A newsman (Walter Pidgeon) falls in love on Cape Cod with the judge (Rosalind Russell) his angry boss (Edward Arnold) expects him to discredit.
Buy Me That Town
Henriette Teagarden
A gangster and his mob buy a small-town in this warm comedy. They, tired of trying to make it as big city hoods, buy the town to use as a hideout. The leader of the gang begins to have a change of heart after he begins falling for a local girl.
Ice-Capades
Vera Vague
Bob Clemens is a cameraman for newsreels. Assigned to shoot the Swiss ice skater Karen Vadja, he arrives too late, so decides to film a woman skating on a different New York rink and pass her off as Karen. The scheme backfires when promoter Larry Herman takes a look at Bob's film and decides to make the skater a star. Unfortunately, it's actually amateur (and illegal immigrant) Marie Bergin in the newsreel footage, not the great figure skater from Switzerland. Chaos ensues as Bob tries to straighten everybody out.
Kiss the Boys Goodbye
Myra Stanhope
New York chorus girl Cindy Lou Bethany becomes frustrated when she prepares for an audition for a Broadway musical, but the auditions close and her roommate, Gwen Abbott, is hired to be secretary to Top Rumson, the show's financial backer. Gwen tells Cindy that the director, Lloyd Lloyd, and composer, Dick Rayburn, have been sent to the South on a talent search for a classic Southern belle type to star in the show, although their shows usually feature Myra Stanhope, an actress whose style is hopelessly inappropriate for this show. Desperate for work, Cindy returns to her aunt Lily Lou and uncle Jefferson Davis Bethany's home in the South and schemes to get Lloyd and Rayburn to audition her.
The Mad Doctor
Louise Watkins (as Barbara Allen [Vera Vague])
A reporter sleuths the mystery behind an oft-married Viennese doctor whose wives met mysterious fates.
Melody and Moonlight
Adelaide Barnett
Jane Frazee made her starring film debut in the Republic B-plus musical Melody and Moonlight. The plot is motivated by the show-biz aspirations of bellboy Danny O'Brien (Johnny Downs). With the help of a wealthy chiropodist (Jerry Colonna), O'Brien not only gets to star on a big-time radio show, but also sprinkles stardust upon his sweetheart Kay Barnett (Jane Frazee)-who, unbeknownst to everyone but the audience, is the daughter of the show's sponsor.
Melody Ranch
Veronica Whipple
His Arizona hometown of Torpedo invites Gene back to be the honorary sheriff of the Frontier Days Celebration.
Sing, Dance, Plenty Hot
Susan
In this musical, a con man makes a good living by promoting bogus charity shows. He gets the communities all revved up and then skips town with all their money. But then he meets three earnest people wanting to garner financial support for an orphanage. This time the con man's loyal assistant finally catches on to the wicked scam and turns him in to the police. Meanwhile, the newly reformed assistant and one of the charity workers fall in loves.
브로드웨이 멜로디 오브 1940
Ms. Konk (uncredited)
Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. A producer discovers Brett as the new partner for Clare Bennett, but Brett, who thinks he is one of the people they lent money to, gives him the name of his partner.
Village Barn Dance
Vera Vague
Dan Martin, an unemployed college graduate, drifts into the town of Lyndale, only to learn that the town and everything in it are dominated by Minerva Withers, a tight-fisted, old skinflint whose welcome does not extend to tramps.
Kennedy the Great
Mrs. John Potter
A short film about a family man who realizes he's a bore at social gatherings so he purchases a trunk full of magic tricks hoping to soon be the life of the party.
여자들
Receptionist (uncredited)
100명의 여성이 등장하는 동안 단 한 명의 남성도 등장하지 않는 ‘여성들만의 영화’. 뉴욕 맨하튼에 사는 상류층 여자들의 우정과 질투, 사랑 등을 다룬 작품으로 클레어 부스 루스의 연극이 원작이다. 「위대한 개츠비」의 F. 스콧 피츠제럴드와 극작가 도널드 오그든 스튜어트가 각본에 참여했다.
Moving Vanities
Mrs. Errol
Leon Errol moves because of a rent increase.