Highest rated movie: The Mountain (1956)
Lowest rated movie: Queen of Outer Space (1958)
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Looking for reviews of Barbara Darrow movies? Cinafilm has a total of 83 reviews across 5 movies.
Movies starring Barbara Darrow have generally received mixed reviews and hold an average score of 49%.
The Mountain - released in 1956 - is Barbara Darrow's highest rated movie, with a score of 65% based on 5 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Barbara Darrow is Queen of Outer Space - released in 1958 - with a score of 38% based on 35 reviews.
Darrow was born in Hollywood, California, to George H. Wittlinger, a motion picture landscape artist, and Alice Simpson Wittlinger, a former silent screen actress. She graduated from Hollywood High School.
Darrow's work as a model led to her receiving offers of film contracts. On August 31, 1950, a judge approved her seven-year contract with RKO Studios. She made mostly B-movie films in the 1950s, including The Monster That Challenged the World and Queen of Outer Space. She replaced Marla English opposite Spencer Tracy in The Mountain, after English had an adverse reaction to a smallpox vaccine. By 1955 she was one of only three actors under contract to RKO.
On television, Darrow portrayed Nurse Forester in the NBC medical drama Doctors' Hospital. She also made several appearances in one or two episodes of popular television shows in the 1950s. Some of these include The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, Bachelor Father, The Bob Cummings Show, M Squad, and Peter Gunn.
Barbara Darrow has acted in films with Richard Harrison, Gary Lockwood, Joi Lansing and Hal Taggart.
Barbara Darrow has worked with these film directors: Lloyd Bacon, Edward Bernds, Edward Dmytryk and Joshua Logan.
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