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Joanna Barnes, Actress in ‘The Parent Trap’ and ‘Aunt Mame,’ Dies at 87

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She additionally composed a few books, including the Hollywood-set ‘The Deceivers’ and the rambling Gold Rush amazing ‘Pastora.’

Joanna Barnes, the entertainer, creator and paper journalist who depicted not exactly amiable young women in The Parent Trap and Auntie Mame, has kicked the bucket. She was 87.

Barnes passed on Friday at her home at The Sea Ranch, California, in the wake of managing “numerous medical issues,” her companion Sally Jackson told The Hollywood Reporter.

Barnes additionally featured as Jane inverse Denny Miller in Tarzan, the Ape Man (1959), then, at that point, showed up with Kirk Douglas in Spartacus (1960) and The War Wagon (1967) and with Tony Curtis in Goodbye Charlie (1964) and Don’t Make Waves (1967).

The Boston local played the ex of Peter Falk’s Shakespeare-citing attorney on the 1965-66 CBS series The Trials of O’Brien and was a welcome visitor star on many different shows, from Maverick, 77 Sunset Strip, Mannix and The Beverly Hillbillies to Barney Miller, Fantasy Island, Hart to Hart and Benson.

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A Phi Beta Kappa from Smith College, Barnes talked with stars and took watchers on voyages through showbiz areas of interest as host of the 1967 ABC work day show Dateline: Hollywood — Rona Barrett doled out the tattle on the program — and filled in as a standard specialist on the CBS game show What’s My Line?

A New York Times book analyst portrayed Barnes as “Jacqueline Susann with a mind” after her most memorable novel, The Deceivers, about a youthful entertainer growing up estranged in Hollywood, was first distributed in 1970.

Her third novel, 1980’s Pastora, is a 750-page authentic amazing that, Kevin Mims expressed, “can be genuinely portrayed as California’s Gone With the Wind. It accomplishes for California’s most popular authentic age (the Gold Rush) how Margaret Mitchell’s original helped the American South’s most well known verifiable age (the Civil War).”

Barnes likewise was a normal book commentator for the Los Angeles Times and the author behind “Contacting Home,” a partnered section about inside plan.

Barnes got a Golden Globe selection for most encouraging female newbie for her presentation as Gloria Upson, the haughty debutante connected with to Roger Smith’s Patrick Dennis, in Auntie Mame (1958), featuring Rosalind Russell.

In The Parent Trap (1961), featuring Hayley Mills, she played the mischievous gold digger Vicki Robinson out to sink her paws into the twins’ father (Brian Keith), then, at that point, returned for the 1998 Lindsay Lohan revamp as the mother of that youngster loathing lady.

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Brought into the world in Boston on Nov. 15, 1934, Barnes went to Milton Academy and afterward studied English at Smith, graduating in 1956 with a proposal to join the Time-Life distributing organization. She tried for an acting job inverse Louis Jourdan on ABC’s Ford Television Theater to expound on the experience and got the part in 1957.

Barnes followed with appearances on Warner Bros. Television programs, including Colt .45, Cheyenne and Hawaiian Eye, then played Dennis Morgan’s right hand on a 1959 summer criminal investigator series called 21 Beacon Street at NBC.

She likewise worked with Smith in the film No Time to Be Young that year.

She additionally appeared on the big screen in Violent Road (1958), Onionhead (1958), The Purple Hills (1961), Too Many Thieves (1966), and I Wonder Who’s Killing Her Now? (1975).

Barnes was hitched multiple times: to Richard Herndon; to entertainer, chief and Naked City storyteller Lawrence Dobkin; and, from 1980 until his demise in 2012, modeler Jack Lionel Warner, whose firm took care of business for the Bel-Air Country Club and Los Angeles Country Club. She moved with Warner from Montecito to The Sea Ranch in 2005.

Survivors incorporate her sisters, Lally and Judith, and her stepchildren, John, Laura and Louise.

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