Elaine Barrie

Template:Short description Template:Use American English Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox person Elaine Barrie (née Jacobs; July 16, 1915 – March 1, 2003) was an American actress who appeared in several films and one Broadway play. She was the fourth, and last, wife of actor John Barrymore.

Biography

Barrie was the daughter of a traveling salesman named Louis Jacobs.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> She claimed to have fallen in love with Barrymore in 1931, when she was 16, after seeing his film, the classic Svengali.<ref name=nytimes>Template:Cite news</ref> She met him when, while a sophomore at Hunter College, she visited his hospital room on the pretense of needing to interview a celebrity for a class assignment.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> They married in 1936 at Yuma, Arizona,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> but the marriage was a rocky one<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and they finally divorced in 1940.

In 1937, shortly before her final divorce, she was sued by E. K. Nadel to prevent her from appearing in Dwain Esper's How to Undress in Front of Your Husband, on the grounds that the title had been copyrighted by Sherill C. Coben.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

She moved to Port-au-Prince, Haiti around 1958, and worked as a handbag designer. She lived in Haiti for an unknown number of years before returning to the United States.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Barrie died in New York City at the age of 87.<ref name=nytimes/>

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1937 {{safesubst:#invoke:Check for unknown parameters|check|unknown=|preview=Page using Template:Center with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y| 1 | style }}	How to Undress in Front of Your Husband	Elanie	Short film, (credit as Elanie Barrie Barrymore)
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