Barbara White

Barbara White (11 December 1923 – 6 February 2013) was a British actress. She played several leading roles during a brief film career during the 1940s. She also appeared on stage in Lesley Storm's Great Day amongst others.

Life From the age of ten, White viewed a future career as a concert pianist, but it was identified the hands of the 'pocket Venus' could not stretch to the required keys. Instead she then began training at a dramatic school ran by her aunt.

As part of stage superstition, White stated in 1947 that she wore an ankle bracelet of tiny silver hearts, a token from an RAF officer who had been shot down in World War II over Germany. She owned a black spaniel called 'Notchka'.

Working with the J. Arthur Rank film studio, it was reported she received the biggest fan mail from Australia for a female actor.

On 4 December 1947 at St Patrick's Church, Soho Square, London, They went on to have a daughter and three sons. Her husband retired from acting in 1994 and they moved to France. He died in 2007 while White died in 2013.

Selected filmography It Happened One Sunday (1944), as Irish servant girl Moya Malone The Voice Within (1946), as Kathleen Quiet Weekend (1946), as nearly 18-year-old house guest Miranda Bute While the Sun Shines (1947), as Lady Elisabeth Randall Mine Own Executioner (1947), as Molly Lucian, where Moore played her on-screen husband This Was a Woman (1948), as Fenella Russell