Barbara Read actress
- Total known movies 21
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 Barbaras 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 children Barbara (Barbie) and William III (Bobo). The marriage was turbulent as both she and Talman suffered from alcohol problems. They divorced in 1960 with Barbara gaining custody of the children. Talman took over custody a year later when Barbaras alcoholism and mental/emotional problems became overbearing. Committed suicide at her Laguna Beach, California home when she turned on the gas jets of her stove and sealed the doors and windows. She left a suicide note blaming ill health. Barbara Read bore a powerful likeness to Deanna Durbin, whose sister she was portraying in Three Smart Girls.Date of Death 11 December 1963, Laguna Beach, California (suicide)
Rhoda Cooper
Movie 1937
Abbie Miles (as Barbara Reed)
Movie 1948
Martha Higby (as Barbara Reed)
Movie 1947
Margo Lane (as Barbara Reed)
Movie 1946
Margo Lane (as Barbara Reed)
Movie 1946
Margo Lane (as Barbara Reed)
Movie 1946
Helen Yates
Movie 1940
Dotty Spencer
Movie 1939
Nan
Movie 1937
Patricia Hammond
Movie 1938
Claire Saunders
Movie 1938
Janet Marlowe
Movie 1939
Linda Pearson
Movie 1942
Mary Dale
Movie 1942
Peggy Sullivan (as Barbara Reed)
Movie 1947
Clarice Stockbridge
Movie 1937
Lucy
Movie 1937
