Barbara Lawrence

Barbara Lawrence

Barbara Jo Lawrence (born February 24, 1930) is an American writer and real-estate businessperson, and retired actress and model.

Born to Morris and Bereniece (née Eaton) Lawrence in Carnegie, Oklahoma, she moved with her mother to Kansas City, Missouri as an adolescent. Lawrence's career began as a child photographer's model. She appeared in her first film, Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe (1945). She was featured in the swashbuckler, Captain from Castile (1947) with Tyrone Power. While finishing her studies at UCLA, she attracted 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 Come the Nelsons.

Upon moving to MGM, Lawrence starred with Gig Young in the 3D movie, Arena. She starred in Her Twelve Men with Greer Garson. She played the role of Gertie Cummings in the film version of Oklahoma!, in which she gets into a knockdown catfight with Gloria Grahame ("Ado Annie"). In 1957, she starred in Kronos with Jeff Morrow. Although the film was not praised by critics at the time, it eventually attracted a cult following for its imaginative storyline and special effects. After doing a number of television shows in the late 1950s and early 1960s she spent several years in South America.

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