Lynn Merrick

Lynn Merrick was an American actress who appeared in more than 40 films during the 1940s, mostly for Columbia and Republic Studios. Born in Fort Worth, Texas, she moved to California in the 1930s, where she studied acting and worked as a model. In 1940, the Motion Picture Publicists Association selected her as one of thirteen Baby Stars, an honor meant to highlight promising new film talent. She made the bulk of her films in the 1940s, starring in 22 features for Republic Pictures, 16 of them Don Barry westerns. She began her Barry westerns with Two Gun Sheriff and ended with Fugitive from Sonora. She later worked for Columbia Pictures, and her costars there included Richard Dix, Chester Morris, and Warner Baxter. Her final film was Escape from Terror (1955), which Jackie Coogan directed and also starred in. After she retired, she worked as an executive for the Barbizon School of Modeling. She died in 2007.