Barbara Lawrence obit

'Oklahoma!' Actress Barbara Lawrence Dies at 83

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Actress Barbara Lawrence, who played Gertie Cummings in the 1955 movie Oklahoma!, has died. She was 83.

Her daughter-in-law, Christy Nelson, said Friday that the actress died of kidney failure on Nov. 13.

Lawrence's career spanned the late 1940s through the early 1960s.

Her movies include The Street with No Name, A Letter To Three Wives and the 1957 sci-fi cult classic Kronos.

Her TV work included episodes of Perry Mason and Bonanza.

Lawrence later became an author, publicist and real estate agent in Beverly Hills.

She has a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.

 

Filmography

Year       Title       Role       Notes

1945      Diamond Horseshoe       Blonde in Nightclub         Uncredited

1946      Margie Marybelle Tenor              

1947      Captain from Castile        Luisa De Carvajal             

1948      You Were Meant for Me               Louise Crane     

1948      Give My Regards to Broadway    June Norwick    

1948      The Street with No Name             Judy Stiles          

1948      Unfaithfully Yours            Barbara Henshler            

1949      A Letter to Three Wives                 Babe Finney       

1949      Mother Is a Freshman    Louise Sharpe   

1949      Thieves' Highway             Polly Faber         

1950      Peggy    Susan Brookfield              

1951      You Were Meant for Me               S.F. (Foxy) Rogers            

1952      Here Come the Nelsons                 Barbara Schutzendorf   

1952      The Star               Barbara Lawrence           

1953      Arena    Sylvia Lorgan     

1953      Paris Model        Marta Jensen    

1954      Jesse James vs. the Daltons          Kate Manning   

1954      Her Twelve Men               Barbara Dunning             

1955      Oklahoma!          Gertie Cummings            

1955      Man with the Gun            Ann Wakefield  

1957      Kronos Vera Hunter       

1957      Joe Dakota          Myrna Weaver

1957      Man in the Shadow         Helen Sadler