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Barbara Lawrence
  • Birth Name:
    Barbara Jo Lawrence
  • Date of Birth:
    February 24, 1930
  • Zodiac Sign:
    Pisces
  • Place of Birth:
    Carnegie, Oklahoma, USA
  • Sex:
    Female
  • Nationality:
    American
  • Education:

    Colorado College

     University of California at Irvine

Family

Barbara Lawrence
  • Spouse:
    Nelson, Lester R. (17 October 1961 - November 1976) (divorced) 2 children, Murphy, Johnny (August 1951 - 1957) (divorced) 2 children, Jeffrey Stone (January 1947 - 24 July 1948) (divorced)

Career

Barbara Lawrence

Trivia

Barbara Lawrence
  • Direct descendant of Sir Francis Eaton, who arrived in America on the Mayflower.
  • Retired to sell real estate in Beverly Hills.
  • In 1955, she was cast as Gertie Cummings in the movie Oklahoma! (1955).
  • In 1954, she was cast in Her Twelve Men (1954), which was the last film that Greer Garson made at MGM.
  • In 1952, she was cast in Here Come the Nelsons (1952), which was the film version of their popular Radio show.
  • She appeared in the critically acclaimed A Letter to Three Wives (1949).
  • As a young girl, she was a model. While completing her studies at UCLA, she co-starred in half a dozen movies for 20th Century Fox.
  • Her career may have only lasted a dozen years, and the number of films slightly more than twenty, but Barbara appeared in some interesting productions.

Biography

Barbara Lawrence
Last Updated: Tuesday, September 01, 2009

Lawrence was born in Carnegie, Oklahoma. She began her career as a photographer's model at a very young age, and appeared in her first film at age 15, Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe (1945). In 1947 she was involved in an incident that seemed to foreshadow the stalking incidents that are so common today. While at the movies she was stabbed by an unknown assailant. The wound was so deep that she was treated at the Santa Monica Emergency Hospital. The assailant was never found.

She was featured in the 1947 swashbuckler, "Captain from Castile" with Tyrone Power. While finishing her studies at UCLA, she ttracted the attention of talent scouts, and Lawrence was soon co-starring in a handful of 20th Century Fox movies, including A Letter to Three Wives, The Street with No Name, Thieves' Highway and Here Comes the Nelsons. In 1947, at age 17, she married another actor, John Fontaine, but the couple divorced the next year.

Filmography

Barbara Lawrence

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