Joan Barclay(1914-2002)
- Actress
Born Mary Elizabeth Greear, the actress best known as Joan Barclay came
out to Hollywood when her mother, anxious to leave Minnesota's cold
climate, put "Florida" and "California" in a hat and let young Mary
Elizabeth draw. One of her earliest acting jobs was a role in The Gaucho (1927)
with Douglas Fairbanks, who wanted to make her his next leading lady even though
she was only 12(!). She was under contract to Warners in the early
1930s and to RKO in the 1940s, and co-starred in many "B" westerns and
serials in the interim. She left movies in the mid-'40s to marry a
wealthy man in the rent-a-car business, the first of her three
husbands.
