Barbara Brown

Barbara Brown was an American actress who started out in California theater before moving into motion pictures. In 1922 she took leading roles in two Oliver Morosco stagings, Wait Till We're Married, along with Abie's Irish Rose. She later worked on Broadway, appearing in plays that included Relations, Our Town, and Liberty Jones. Her screen career began in the early 1940s. In You Were Never Lovelier (1942), she was cast as Delfina Acuña, the mother of the woman portrayed by Rita Hayworth. In 1944 she took roles in Janie and Hollywood Canteen. Ray Collins and she played in-laws to Ma and Pa Kettle in two comedies. She also had a supporting part in Jack and the Beanstalk (1952), an Abbott and Costello comedy. Brown died in 1975.