Early years

Barnes was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the daughter of John Pindar Barnes and Alice Weston Munch, with sisters Alice and Judith.

She attended Milton Academy and then Smith College, from which she graduated in 1956 as a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She majored in English. Barnes received the college's award for poetry, the immediate successor to Sylvia Plath for that recognition. Her research for a magazine article about making movies led to a career change to acting.

Television

Barnes' initial appearance on television was in the episode The Man Who Beat Lupo on Ford Theatre. She made guest appearances on many television shows, including the ABC/Warner Brothers programs, 77 Sunset Strip and Maverick, CBS's Have Gun - Will Travel, "What's My Line" (11/28/1965), and the David Janssen crime drama, Richard Diamond, Private Detective.

Barnes appeared as Kate Henniger, with Bing Russell and Arthur Space in the 1958 episode "Ghost Town" of the ABC/WB western series, Colt .45, starring Wayde Preston. In 1959, she portrayed Lola in the NBC detective series, 21 Beacon Street.

In the 1960s, Barnes worked for producer Martin Ransohoff and appeared in episodes of his The Beverly Hillbillies (Elly Goes to School and The Clampett Look) and was billed as special guest-star. Barnes played Peter Falk's former wife on the 1965-1966 CBS series The Trials of O'Brien and was host of the ABC daytime talk show Dateline: Hollywood in 1967.

She was also a frequent panelist in the early years of the syndicated version of What's My Line?. On December 19, 1972, Barnes appeared on The Merv Griffin Show with Joan Fontaine, Zsa Zsa Gabor, and Dan Martino (founder of the Dan Martino School for Men).

Film

Barnes moved to Los Angeles soon after finishing her education, and took up a contract with Columbia Pictures. She went on to have roles in more than 20 films.

Barnes became the 13th actress to play Jane when she appeared in Tarzan, the Ape Man (1959), opposite Denny Miller as Tarzan.

In Disney's original 1961 version of The Parent Trap starring Hayley Mills, Barnes played gold-digger Vicky Robinson, who temporarily comes between Maureen O'Hara and Brian Keith. In the 1998 remake starring Lindsey Lohan, she played Vicki Blake, the mother of the gold-digging girlfriend character.

In the 1960s, she appeared in The War Wagon, a lavish western movie starring John Wayne and Kirk Douglas, which she touted tirelessly on her show.

Writing

Barnes was also a writer and columnist. In 1973, she told newspaper columnist Dick Kleiner that she liked writing because "it is something you do yourself. With acting, if you win an Oscar or an Emmy, you have to thank everybody. If you write a book it is completely your own."

She wrote a book, Starting from Scratch, about home decorating and several novels, including The Deceivers (1970), Who Is Carla Hart? (1973), Pastora (1980), and Silverwood (1985). She wrote a weekly book review for the Los Angeles Times, and her column, Touching Home, was carried by The Chicago Tribune and the New York News Syndicate.

Recognition

Barnes's performance in the film Auntie Mame (1958) as the snooty 'Gloria Upson' earned her a Golden Globe nomination for "New Star of the Year."

Personal life

On April 30, 1955, Barnes married Richard Edward Herndon; they later divorced. On June 24, 1962, she married actor Lawrence Dobkin; they divorced on January 16, 1967. On October 1, 1980, she married Jack Lionel Warner. She has no children, but during her marriage to Lawrence Dobkin, she was the stepmother of his daughter Deborah from his first wife, Frances Walker.

TV and filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1956	Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers		Episode: "The Regiment"
1957	Ford Theatre	Ileana	Episode: "The Man Who Beat Lupo"
1957	Playhouse 90	Ellen Blackwell	Episode: "The Blackwell Story"
1957	Garment Jungle, TheThe Garment Jungle	Bit Model (uncredited)
1957	Conflict	Betty Callister Laura Ferris	Episode: "Anything for Money" Episode: "The Velvet Cage"
1957-1960	Maverick	Various	5 episodes
1957	Cheyenne	Alice Chaney	Episode: "Devil's Canyon"
1958	Cheyenne	Adelaide Marshall	Episode "Dead to Rights"
1958	Cold .45	Kate Henniger	Episode: "Ghost Town"
1958	Too Much, Too Soon	Party Girl (uncredited)
1958	Violent Road	Peg Lawrence
1958	Onionhead	Snobbish Girl at Party (uncredited)
1958	Home Before Dark	Cathy Bergner
1958	Steve Canyon	Joan Richards	Episode: "Operation Diplomat"
1958	Auntie Mame	Gloria Upson
1959	Beach Patrol	Edie West	TV movie
1959	21 Beacon Street	Lola / Joana	11 episodes
1959	Tarzan, the Ape Man	Jane Parker
1959	Hawaiian Eye	Rikki Whitman	Episode: "A Dime a Dozen"
1960	M Squad	Tammy Worth	Episode: "The Twisted Way"
1960	Philip Marlowe	Lois Conway	Episode: "Death Takes a Lover"
1960	Millionaire, TheThe Millionaire	Karen Summers	Episode: "Millionaire Karen Summers"
1960	The Man from Blackhawk	Colette	Episode: "Remember Me Not"
1960	Mr. Lucky	Laura Lawrence	Episode: "Taking a Chance"
1960	General Electric Theater	Princess Camilla	Episode: "The Ugly Duckling"
1960	Alcoa Theatre	Eve Fremont	Episode: "333 Montgomery Street"
1960	Richard Diamond, Private Detective	Joyce Long	Episode: "The Lovely Fraud"
1960	Dante		Episode: "One for the Birds"
1960	Spartacus	Claudia Marius
1960	Adventures in Paradise	Diane Winthrope	Episode: "Incident in Suva"
1960	Tab Hunter Show, TheThe Tab Hunter Show		Episode: "Portia Go Home"
1961	Tab Hunter Show, TheThe Tab Hunter Show	Isabelle	Episode: "Dream Boy"
1961	Bringing Up Buddy	Marcia Sutter	Episode: "Buddy's Transfer"
1961	Michael Shayne	Nora	Episode: "Final Settlement"
1961	Stagecoach West	Ruby Sanders	Episode: "The Outcasts"
1961	Untouchables, TheThe Untouchables	Marquise de Bouverais / Marcie McKuen	Episode: "90-Proof Dame"
1961	Parent Trap, TheThe Parent Trap	Vicky Robinson
1961	Bob Cummings Show, TheThe Bob Cummings Show	Amanda Caulfield	Episode: "Executive Sweet"
1961	Investigators, TheThe Investigators	Georgette	Episode: "In a Mirror, Darkly"
1961	Target: The Corruptors!	Ann Fielding	Episode: "The Golden Carpet"
1961	The Purple Hills	Amy Carter
1961	Follow the Sun	Doris #1	Episode: "The Primitive Clay"
1961	Cain's Hundred	Carol Cheston	Episode: "Five for One"
1962	Laramie	Ruth Lucy Barton	Episode: "This Barefoot Kid" Episode: "War Hero"
1962	Sam Benedict	Cordelia Montagne	Episode: "Tears for a Nobody Doll"
1962	Have Gun-Will Travel	Penelope Lacey	Episode: "Penelope"
1962	Alcoa Premiere	Sylvia Dorn	Episode: "Mr. Easy"
1963	Alcoa Premiere	Aggie McCrae	Episode: "The Glass Palace"
1963	Eleventh Hour, TheThe Eleventh Hour	Dr. Sarah Crowley	Episode: "My Name Is Judith, I'm Lost, You See"
1963	Empire	Neva Bradford	Episode: "Down There, the World"
1963	Philbert (Three's a Crowd)	Angela	Short film
1963	Beverly Hillbillies, TheThe Beverly Hillbillies	Cynthia Fenwick	Episode: "Elly Starts to School" Episode: "The Clampett Look"
1963	77 Sunset Strip	Lisa Cabot	Episode: "88 Bars"
1964	Arrest and Trial	Melinda Parsons	Episode: "A Circle of Strangers"
1964	Farmer's Daughter, TheThe Farmer's Daughter	Monica	Episode: "The Next Mrs. Morley"
1964	Goodbye Charlie	Janie Highland
1965	Dr. Kildare	Dr. Suzanne Shary	Episode: "Make Way for Tomorrow"
1965	Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre	Connie	Episode: "Simon Says Get Married"
1965-1966	Trials of O'Brien, TheThe Trials of O'Brien	Katie O'Brien	5 episodes
1967	War Wagon, TheThe War Wagon	Lola
1967	Don't Make Waves	Diane Prescott
1967	Too Many Thieves	Katie
1968	Off to See the Wizard	Jane Parker	Episode: "Tarzan the Ape Man"
1968	Mannix	Phyllis Richards	Episode: "Fear I to Fall"
1969	Name of the Game, TheThe Name of the Game	Ardith	Episode: "The Perfect Image"
1969	F.B.I., TheThe F.B.I.		Episode: "The Prey"
1970	Nanny and the Professor	Lynn Carlisle	Episode: "The Scientific Approach"
1971	B.S. I Love You	Jane Ink
1971	Eddie	Sylvia	TV movie
1971	O'Hara, U.S. Treasury	Hannah	Episode: "Operation: Payoff"
1971	Alias Smith and Jones	Janet Judson Mrs. Hanley	Episode: "How to Rob a Bank in One Hard Lesson" Episode: "Miracle at Santa Marta"
1972	Hawaii Five-O	Bonnie	Episode: "Didn't We Meet at a Murder?"
1972	Cool Million		Episode: "Assault on Gavaloni"
1973	Love, American Style		Episode: "Love and Legend"
1973	New Perry Mason, TheThe New Perry Mason	Mrs. Ballinger	Episode: "The Case of the Ominous Oath"
1973	McCloud	Karen Chandler	Episode: "The Solid Gold Swingers"
1973	Marcus Welby, M.D.	Laura Daniels Noreen Saunders	Episode: "The Working Heart" Episode: "Death Is Only a Side Effect"
1974	Planet of the Apes	Carsia	Episode: "Up Above the World So High"
1975	SWAT	Andrea	Episode: "Death Carrier"
1975	Matt Helm	Hannah Bigelow	Episode: "Think Murder"
1975	Ellery Queen	Camellia Justice	Episode: "The Adventure of the Blunt Instrument"
1975	I Wonder Who's Killing Her Now?	Clarice Oliver
1976	Quincy M.E.	Margo Bentley / Barbara Miller	Episode: "Who's Who in Neverland"
1976	Executive Suite	Sharon Cody	3 episodes
1978	Betty White Show, TheThe Betty White Show		Episode: "Play Misty for John"
1978-1979	Fantasy Island	Various	3 episodes
1979	Charlie's Angels	Julia Lathrop	Episode: "Angels on Skates"
1980	Last Resort, TheThe Last Resort		Episode: "Gone with a Whim"
1980	When the Whistle Blows	Mrs. Hamilton	Episode: "Macho Man"
1980	Trapper John, M.D.	Roz Tremor	Episode: "Girl Under Glass: Part 2"
1982	Barney Miller	Mrs. Fitzjames	Episode: "Chinatown: Part 1" Episode: "Chinatown: Part 2"
1982	Hart to Hart	Rosemary Wentworth	Episode: "Hart's Desire"
1983	Remington Steele	Claudette Crockett	Episode: "My Fair Steele"
1985	Trapper John, M.D.	Teresa Hillyer	Episode: "In the Eyes of the Beholder"
1986	Benson	Reba Sennett	Episode: "Real Murder: Part 1" Episode: "Real Murder: Part 2"
1987	Murder, She Wrote	Lydia Barnett	Episode: "The Way to Dusty Death"
1989	Cheers	Valerie Crandell	Episode: "The Visiting Lecher"
1998	Parent Trap, TheThe Parent Trap	Vicki Blake	She played Vicki in the Original "Parent Trap" movie in 1961
2000	Then Came You	Lilian	Episode: "Then Came the Monthiversary"

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