Binnie Barnes

Binnie Barnes
Born	Gertrude Maud Barnes (1903-05-25)25 May 1903 Islington, London, England
Died	27 July 1998(1998-07-27) (aged 95) Beverly Hills, California USA
Resting place	Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1923–73
Spouse(s)	Samuel Joseph (m. 1931–1937) Mike Frankovich (m. 1940–1992) (his death); 3 children

Gertrude Maud "Binnie" Barnes (25 May 1903 – 27 July 1998) was an English actress.

Life and career

Barnes was born in Islington, the daughter of Rosa Enoyce and George Barnes, a policeman. Her father was Jewish and her mother of Italian descent.

She began her acting career in films in 1923, appearing in a short film made by Lee De Forest in his Phonofilm sound-on-film process. Her film career continued in Great Britain, most notably in The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933) as Katherine Howard, Henry's fifth wife. Later her career continued in Hollywood, until 1973, when she appeared in the comedy 40 Carats, her last acting role.

She was married, secondly, to film producer Mike Frankovich, a Roman Catholic, for whom she converted to Catholicism, and later a naturalized United States citizen. The couple adopted three children.

She died in 1998 of natural causes, aged 95, in Beverly Hills, California. She was survived by her three children, including production manager, Mike Frankovich, Jr., and producer Peter Frankovich. She was interred in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale.

Partial filmography

• Night in Montmartre (1931)
• Down Our Street (1932)
• Murder at Covent Garden (1932)
• Counsel's Opinion (1933)
• The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)
• The Silver Spoon (1934)
• The Private Life of Don Juan (1934)
• Forbidden Territory (1934)
• Diamond Jim (1935)
• Rendezvous (1935)
• La Fiesta de Santa Barbara (1935)
• The Last of the Mohicans (1936)
• Three Smart Girls (1936)
• Small Town Girl (1936)
• Broadway Melody of 1938 (1938)
• The Divorce of Lady X (1938)
• The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938)
• Tropic Holiday (1938)
• The Three Musketeers (1939)
• Wife, Husband and Friend (1939)
• Man About Town (1939)
• Frontier Marshal (1939)
• This Thing Called Love (1940)
• 'Til We Meet Again (1940)
• The Great Awakening (1941)
• Skylark (1941)
• In Old California (1942)
• I Married an Angel (1942)
• The Man from Down Under (1943)
• Barbary Coast Gent (1944)
• It's in the Bag (1945)
• The Spanish Main (1945)
• The Time of Their Lives (1946)
• If Winter Comes (1947)
• The Dude Goes West (1948)
• Decameron Nights (1953)
• Malaga (1954)
• The Donna Reed Show (ABC television series), in "Just a Little Wedding" (1963) and the final series episode "By-Line: Jeff Stone" (1966)
• The Trouble with Angels (1966)
• Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows (1969)
• 40 Carats (1973)

External links

• Binnie Barnes at the Internet Movie Database
• Binnie Barnes at Find a Grave
• Photographs and literature