Barbara Jo Allen
American actress (1906-1974) · United States · On the map · Actors · Died at 68
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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The Three Stooges FolliesFilm, 1974Vera Clayton (archive footage)1963
The Sword in the StoneFilm, Scullery Maid (voice) (uncredited)1960
Surfside 6Series1959
Born to Be LovedFilm, Irene Hoffman1957
MaverickSeries, Celia Mallaver1956
Columbia Laff HourFilm, Vera Vague (archive footage)1954The George Gobel ShowSeries1953
General Electric TheaterSeries, Mrs. Parkinson1951She Took a PowderFilm, Vera Vague1950Nursie BehaveFilm, Vera Vague1946
Earl Carroll SketchbookFilm, Sherry Lane1945
SnafuFilm, Madge Stevens1944
Cowboy CanteenFilm, Vera Vague1943
Swing Your PartnerFilm, Vera Vague1941
Buy Me That TownFilm, Henriette Teagarden1940
Broadway Melody of 1940Film, Ms. Konk (uncredited)1939
The WomenFilm, Receptionist (uncredited)1906Born2 September 1906Known for
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The Sword in the Stone 1963
The Women 1939
Sleeping Beauty 1959
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Joseph Santley Directed Ice-Capades and Rosie the Riveter
Norman Taurog Directed Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940)
Jerry Colonna Also in Ice-Capades and Melody and Moonlight- Bill Shirley Also in Ice-Capades and Hi, Neighbor
- Victor Young Wrote Kiss the Boys Goodbye and The Mad Doctor
Vera Ralston Also in Ice-Capades and Ice Capades Revue
Jane Frazee Also in Melody and Moonlight and Cowboy Canteen
Walt Disney Produced Goliath II (1960)- Wolfgang Reitherman Directed Goliath II (1960)
Bill Peet Wrote Sleeping Beauty and Goliath II
Verna Felton Also in Sleeping Beauty and Goliath II
Victor Schertzinger Directed Kiss the Boys Goodbye (1941)
Kurt Neumann Directed Mohawk (1956)
Lloyd Corrigan Also in Lake Placid Serenade (1944)
Tim Whelan Directed The Mad Doctor (1941)
Joe Pasternak Produced The Opposite Sex (1956)- Harry Grey Produced Lake Placid Serenade (1944)
Andrew Tombes Also in Lake Placid Serenade and Larceny, Inc.
Edgar Dearing Also in Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940)
Horace McMahon Also in Melody Ranch and Buy Me That Town
Jack Cummings Produced Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940)
Ruth Terry Also in Sing, Dance, Plenty Hot (1940)
Sol C. Siegel Produced Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1942)- Armand Schaefer Produced Rosie the Riveter (1944)
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Filmography 40
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Television 4
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As Vague, she popularized the catchphrase "You dear boy!"
