# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/barbara-jo-allen
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:07:20.685Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/barbara-jo-allen"
name: "Barbara Jo Allen"
slug: "barbara-jo-allen"
description: "Barbara Jo Allen was an American actress. She was also known as Vera Vague, the man-crazy 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 catchphrase \"You dear boy!\""
tagline: "American actress (1906-1974)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Barbara_Jo_Allen_1958.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1906-09-02"
deathDate: "1974-09-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.03
  momentum:             2.67515923566879
  historical:           16.071964
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0020289/"
    handle:    "nm0020289"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
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    title: "바바라 조 앨런"
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    title: "Vera Vauge"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump