Highest rated movie: Holiday (1938)
Lowest rated movie: I Married an Angel (1942)
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Looking for reviews of Binnie Barnes movies? Cinafilm has a total of 611 reviews across 25 movies.
Movies starring Binnie Barnes have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 60%.
Holiday - released in 1938 - is Binnie Barnes's highest rated movie, with a score of 82% based on 232 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Binnie Barnes is I Married an Angel - released in 1942 - with a score of 45% based on 5 reviews.
Gittel Enoyce "Binnie" Barnes (25 May 1903 – 27 July 1998), later known as Gertrude Maude Barnes, was an English actress.
She was born in Islington to a Jewish father and an Italian mother and was brought up as a Jew. She worked on a farm and in hospital as a probationer. She then became a ballroom dancer and Tex McLeod's stage partner. Later she was in cabaret and revue.
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 Britain, then in Hollywood, until 1973, with her final role in the comedy 40 Carats. Her most famous film was probably The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933), starring Charles Laughton in the title role, with Barnes as Katherine Howard.
She was married to film producer Mike Frankovich and became an American citizen. They adopted three children.
She died of natural causes at the age of 95 in Beverly Hills, California, in 1998, survived by her three children, including production manager Mike Frankovich Jr. and producer Peter Frankovich. Her interment was in Glendale's Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery.
Binnie Barnes has acted in films with Bess Flowers, Merle Oberon, Harry Hayden and John Carradine.
Binnie Barnes has worked with these film directors: Roy Del Ruth, Alexander Korda, Mark Sandrich and Ida Lupino.
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