Barbara Perry (actress)

Barbara Perry (June 22, 1921[citation needed] – May 5, 2019) was an American actress, singer and dancer who worked for 84 years in Hollywood and on Broadway.

Perry performed on Broadway in various productions, including playing Anna in Rumple in 1957.

[1] By the mid-1950s to the early-1960s, she had studied acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, England, while performing opposite George Formby, Warde Donovan, and Sara Gregory in Zip Goes a Million at the Hippodrome and Palace Theatres, and upon her return to the USA had started appearing in numerous television series such as Perry Mason,The Donna Reed Show, The Andy Griffith Show, My Three Sons, and The Dick Van Dyke Show, where she played Buddy Sorrell's wife Pickles, before being replaced by Joan Shawlee.

[2][3] In 1981, Perry wrote and performed in Passionate Ladies, a one-woman Broadway show at the Bijou Theatre.

[4] Her other Broadway plays included Swan Song (1946), If the Shoe Fits (1946), Happy as Larry (1950), and Rumple (1957).