Barbara Bates
Barbara Bates was born in Denver, Colorado, United States on August 6th, 1925 and is the Movie Actress. At the age of 43, Barbara Bates biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Barbara Bates (born Barbara Jane Bates, 1925 – March 18, 1969) was an American singer and actress best known for her role in the 1950 drama film All About Eve.
Early life
Bates, the eldest of three daughters, was born in Denver, Colorado. She studied ballet and worked as a teen fashion model while growing up in Denver. The shy teen was encouraged to enter a local beauty competition and win, earning two round-trip train tickets to Hollywood, California. Cecil Coan, a United Artists publicist, met Bates two days before returning to Denver, who would later marry her.
Career
After Cecil Coan introduced her to producer Walter Wanger in September 1944, the 19-year old Bates signed a deal with Universal Pictures. She was starring Yvonne De Carlo in the 1945 drama "Seven Salome Girls" shortly after. She fell in love with Coan, who was married with two sons and two daughters at the time. On March 25, 1945, Coan divorced Helen Coan and secretly married Bates in Chihua, México. Bates spent the next few years as a stock actor, playing bit parts in films, and designing cheesecake layouts for magazines including Yank, the Army Weekly, and Life. It was one of those photo shoots that caught the attention of Warner Bros. executives who hired her in 1947. Warner Bros. spoke out in honor of her "girl-next-door" appearance, as well as her film career. Bette Davis in June Bride and Danny Kaye in The Inspector General were two of the day's biggest stars, including Bette Davis in June Bride and Danny Kaye in The Inspector General.
Bates' deal with Warner Bros. was terminated in 1949 after she refused to go to New York City to promote The Inspector General. Despite being fired by Warner Brothers, she signed a 20th Century-Fox contract later this year.
In late 1949, Bates auditioned for Phoebe's tiny role in Fox's forthcoming All About Eve. Zsa Zsa Gabor and others were competing for the role, but Bates impressed the designers and was given the role. At the end of the film, she made a brief but crucial appearance as the devious schemer, Phoebe. In the film's last scene, Bates' image is enshrined, posing in front of a three-way mirror, while her idol Eve Harrington, played by Anne Baxter, is given the award. Critics and audiences alike were taken aback by the teen actress, who they hoped would appear in a sequel to All About Eve in this memorable final scene. "Barbara Bates appears on screen in the last few moments to more or less sum up the whole story and point of view," the Hollywood Reporter said of her appearance. It's odd that a little goes to account for so much, but Miss Bates' hands, all the required points are met."
After appearing in All About Eve, Bates co-starred in Cheaper by the Dozen and its sequel Belles on Their Toes with Jeanne Crain and Myrna Loy. In 1951, she appeared in the comedy Let's Make It Legal opposite MacDonald Carey and Claudette Colbert. In 1982, Fox refused to loan out Bates for the role of the suicidal ballerina saved by Charlie Chaplin's aging vaudevillian in Limelight (1952). In the 1953 hit comedy The Caddy, she co-starred with Donna Reed as Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis' love interests.