Barbara Weeks (film actress)
| Barbara Weeks | |
|---|---|
 Barbara Weeks in The Violent Years (1956) | |
| Born |
July 4, 1913 Somerville, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Died |
June 24, 2003 (aged 89) Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. |
| Occupation | Film actress |
| Spouse(s) |
Guinn Williams (divorced) Lewis Parker (died) William Cox (divorced); 1 child |
Barbara Weeks (July 4, 1913 – June 24, 2003) was an American actress of the 1930s.
Early years
Weeks was born Sue Kingsley in Somerville, Massachusetts.[1] She entered acting through her participation in the Ziegfeld Follies. Her mother was an actress, and "from the time Barbara was 3 years old her ambition was to be an actress, too."[2]
Film
In 1931, Weeks was named as one of 14 girls selected as a "WAMPAS Baby Star", which launched her into a brief but successful acting career, mostly in cliffhanger serials and B-movie films and B-Westerns.
Eight of her films starred Tim McCoy, Buck Jones, Tom Tyler and Charles Starrett. For a time she was married to the B-Western actor Guinn "Big Boy" Williams. She left the film business in the late 1930s after she married the Lockheed test pilot Lewis Parker in 1938. In 1945, after the end of World War II, Parker's plane disappeared over the North Atlantic and he was never found.
Later years
Following Parker's death, Weeks moved to New York City and began working as a model. In 1949, "following a brief marriage to the actor Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams,"[1] she married William Cox, with whom she had a son, Schuyler John Wing Cox. The couple were married for a short time before divorcing. She then moved to Las Vegas where she worked as a secretary. She died in Las Vegas 20 days before her 90th birthday in 2003.
Partial filmography
- Palmy Days (1931)
- Men in Her Life (1931)
- Discarded Lovers (1932)
- Cheaters at Play (1932)
- Devil's Lottery (1932)
- Deception (1932)
- By Whose Hand? (1932)
- Stepping Sisters (1932)
- Olsen's Big Moment (1933)
- State Trooper (1933)
- Soldiers of the Storm (1933)
- Rusty Rides Alone (1933)
- My Weakness (1933)
- Now I'll Tell (1934)
- Dad Rudd, MP (1940)
- The Violent Years (1956)
External links
- Barbara Weeks at the Internet Movie Database
- Barbara Weeks at AllMovie
- B-Western Heroines, Barbara Weeks
References
- 1 2 "Barbara Weeks". The Telegraph. November 24, 2003. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
- ↑ Dillon, Patricia (October 17, 1930). "Even Chorus Can Produce Prim Miss". Wisconsin, Milwaukee. The Milwaukee Sentinel. p. 4. Retrieved 12 December 2015.