page_title: Joanna Barnes
section_title: Film
hierarchical_section_title: Joanna Barnes / Film
caption_attribution_description: Publicity photo of Peter Falk and Joanna Barnes from the television program The Trials of O'Brien.
context_page_description: Joanna Barnes is an American actress, novelist and journalist.
context_section_description: Barnes moved to Los Angeles soon after finishing her education, and took up a contract with Columbia Pictures. She went on to have roles in more than 20 films.
  Among her most remembered roles is the snooty Gloria Upson in the film Auntie Mame (1958), which earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination for New Star of the Year.
  Barnes became the 13th actress to play Jane when she appeared in Tarzan, the Ape Man (1959), with Denny Miller as Tarzan.
  In Disney's original 1961 version of The Parent Trap starring Hayley Mills, Barnes played gold-digger Vicki Robinson, who temporarily comes between Maureen O'Hara and Brian Keith. In the 1998 remake starring Lindsay Lohan, she played Vicki Blake, the mother of the child-hating gold-digger and fiancee Meredith Blake (Elaine Hendrix).
  In the 1960s, she appeared in The War Wagon, a western movie starring John Wayne and Kirk Douglas.
caption: With Peter Falk in The Trials of O'Brien (1965)
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