Barbara Read

Barbara Read

Acting 1917-12-29 Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada

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 Barbara's 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 Barbara's 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)

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1948 Abbie Miles (as Barbara Reed)
1947 Martha Higby (as Barbara Reed)
1947 Peggy Sullivan (as Barbara Reed)
1946 Margo Lane
1946 Margo Lane
1946 Margo Lane
1946 Mitzi
1942 Linda Pearson
1942 Mary Dale
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1940 Helen Middleton
1940 Helen Yates
1939 Dotty Spencer
1939 Janet Marlowe
1938 Patricia Hammond
1938 Claire Saunders
1937 Rhoda Cooper
1937 Aileen Fenno
1937 Clarice Stockbridge
1937 Lucy
1936 Kay Craig