Judith Barrie

Judith Barrie (born Catherine Brown; March 1907 – January 9, 1991) was an American actress and model who appeared in four films from 1930 to 1932, retiring after her brief marriage to producer Edward Halperin.

Born Catherine Brown[a] and raised in Sacramento, Barrie was the granddaughter of a wealthy wheat merchant in California.

[5] After graduating, she worked as a model in New York City,[4] and became a muse of artist James Montgomery Flagg.

[9] After appearing in her feature debut in Party Girl (1930) opposite Douglas Fairbanks, Jr, she served as a model for the life-size bronze statue used to welcome visitors at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

[11] She subsequently married Norman Coit Lee, a broker from New York City, on August 25, 1933 in Reno, Nevada.