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- Joanna Barnes was an American actress and novelist and journalist. Barnes was born in Boston, Massachusetts. She moved to Los Angeles, California soon after finishing her education, and took up a contract with Columbia Pictures. She had roles in more than twenty films and made guest appearances on many television shows, including the ABC/Warner Brothers programs, 77 Sunset Strip (1958) and Maverick (1957), CBS's Have Gun - Will Travel (1957), and the David Janssen crime drama, Richard Diamond, Private Detective (1956). Her books included "The Deceivers" (1970), "Pastora" (1980) and "Silverwood" (1985), and were published in Italy, France, England, Sweden, Portugal and Brazil. Her syndicated column, "Touching Home," was for many years carried by The Chicago Tribune and New York News Syndicate.- IMDb mini biography by: Scion777
- SpousesJack Lionel Warner(October 1, 1980 - January 19, 2012) (his death)Lawrence Dobkin(June 24, 1961 - January 13, 1967) (divorced)Richard Edward Herndon(April 30, 1955 - 1956) (divorced)
- ParentsAlice Weston MunchJohn Pindar Barnes
- In the original La fiancée de Papa (1961) she was golddigger Vicki Robinson. Thirty-seven years later she played Vicki Blake, mother of the new golddigger, in the remake À nous quatre (1998).
- Husband Jack Warner led California-based architectural firm, named four times in the top 100. Designed the Bel-Air Country Club and a wing of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Died of cancer aged 87.
- In July 1960, Barnes was dropped from the Boston Social Register for having become an actress.
- Joanna graduated with honors in 1956 from Smith College, a private liberal arts women's college in Northampton, Massachusetts.
- Was living in The Sea Ranch development along the northern coast of California at the time of her death.
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