Barbara White (actress)
Barbara White 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. In the 1948 movie This Was a Woman, Russian-born composer Mischa Spoliansky wrote a concerto especially for White to play, additional to several other compositions she played in the film.White was described as, dark curly hair, and brown eyes.
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, she married the Irish actor Kieron Moore whom she acted with in The Voice Within and Mine Own Executioner. The reception was in the Savoy Hotel. 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.