Barbara Jo Allen
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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.
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Filmography 40
Sleeping Beauty
The Sword in the Stone
The Women
Broadway Melody of 1940
Larceny, Inc.
Goliath II
The Opposite Sex
Mohawk
The Mad Doctor
Melody Ranch
Design for Scandal
Ice-Capades
Born to Be Loved
Ice Capades Revue
Hiss and Yell
Rosie the Riveter
Buy Me That Town
Square Dance Katy
Melody and Moonlight
Snafu
Girl Rush
Earl Carroll Sketchbook
Columbia Laff Hour
Kiss the Boys Goodbye
Moon Over Las Vegas
Priorities on Parade
Get Going
Swing Your Partner
Lake Placid Serenade
The Three Stooges Follies
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
Clunked in the Clink
Cowboy Canteen
Wha' Happen?58 credits on file
Television 4
Maverick
Surfside 6
General Electric TheaterAwards 1
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About this person
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!"
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