Barbara Jo Allen

Actor Sep 2 (died age 68) New York City, New York, USA 1939–1991 (52 year career)

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Biography

From Wikipedia Barbara Jo Allen (September 2, 1906 – September 14, 1974) was an actress also known as Vera Vague, the spinster character she created and portrayed on radio and in films during the 1940s and 1950s. She based the character on a woman she had seen delivering a PTA literature lecture in a confused manner. As Vague, she popularized the catch phrase "You dear boy!" Allen's acting ability first surfaced in school plays. Following her high school graduation, she went to Paris to study …

Known For

Film

The Sword in the Stone

Scullery Maid (voice) (uncredited)

Film

Sleeping Beauty

Fauna (voice)

Film

The Women

Receptionist (uncredited)

Film

Larceny, Inc.

Mademoiselle Gloria

Film

Broadway Melody of 1940

Ms. Konk (uncredited)

Film

Goliath II

Goliath II's Mother

Film

The Opposite Sex

Dolly DeHaven

Film

The Mad Doctor

Louise Watkins (as Barbara Allen [Vera Vague])

Filmography

Acting (58)

Movies (54)

Disney’s Coyote Tales

1991

as Goliath II’s Mother (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)

6.0

The Three Stooges Follies

1974

as Vera Clayton (archive footage)

The Sword in the Stone

1963

as Scullery Maid (voice) (uncredited)

7.2

Goliath II

1960

as Goliath II's Mother

Sleeping Beauty

as Fauna (voice)

Born to Be Loved

as Irene Hoffman

Columbia Laff Hour

as Vera Vague (archive footage)

The Opposite Sex

as Dolly DeHaven

Mohawk

as Aunt Agatha

Happy Go Wacky

as Vera Vague

She Took a Powder

1951

as Vera Vague

Square Dance Katy

1950

as Gypsy Jones

2.0

Nursie Behave

1950

as Vera Vague

Clunked in the Clink

1949

as Vera Vague

Miss in a Mess

1949

as Vera Vague

Wha' Happen?

1949

as Vera

Cupid Goes Nuts

1947

as Vera Vague / Prudy Vague

Reno-Vated

1946

as Vera Butts

Headin' for a Weddin'

1946

as Vera Vague

Earl Carroll Sketchbook

as Sherry Lane

Hiss and Yell

as Vera Vague

The Jury Goes Round 'n' Round

1945

as Vera Vague

Snafu

1945

as Madge Stevens

6.0

Calling All Fibbers

1945

as Vera Vague

She Snoops to Conquer

1944

as Vera

Henry Aldrich Plays Cupid

1944

as Mrs. Terwilliger ("Blue Eyes")

Lake Placid Serenade

1944

as Countess

Doctor, Feel My Pulse

1944

as Vera Vague

1.0

Strife of the Party

1944

as Vera Clayton

Moon Over Las Vegas

1944

as Auntie

Girl Rush

1944

as Suzie Banks

5.0

Cowboy Canteen

1944

as Vera Vague

Rosie the Riveter

1944

as Vera Watson

4.5

You Dear Boy!

1943

as Vera

Get Going

1943

as Matilda Jones

Swing Your Partner

1943

as Vera Vague

Ice Capades Revue

1942

as Aunt Nellie

5.7

Larceny, Inc.

1942

as Mademoiselle Gloria

7.0

Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch

1942

as Tabitha Hazy

Priorities on Parade

1942

as Mariposa Ginsbotham

Design for Scandal

1941

as Janie

4.9

Buy Me That Town

1941

as Henriette Teagarden

6.0

Ice-Capades

1941

as Vera Vague

5.5

Kiss the Boys Goodbye

1941

as Myra Stanhope

5.0

The Mad Doctor

1940

as Louise Watkins (as Barbara Allen [Vera Vague])

6.2

Broadway Melody of 1940

1940

as Ms. Konk (uncredited)

6.7

Sing, Dance, Plenty Hot

1940

as Susan

Village Barn Dance

1940

as Vera Vague

Melody and Moonlight

as Adelaide Barnett

Melody Ranch

as Veronica Whipple

The Women

as Receptionist (uncredited)

7.1

Kennedy the Great

1939

as Mrs. John Potter

Moving Vanities

1939

as Mrs. Errol

Major Difficulties

Television (4)

Surfside 6

Maverick

as Celia Mallaver

The George Gobel Show

1954

as Self

7.3

General Electric Theater

1953

as Mrs. Parkinson

6.4