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Barbara Lawrence (born Barbara Jo Lawrence on February 24, 1930) is a film actress. Events 303 - Galerius, Roman Emperor, publishes his edict that begins the persecution of Christians in his portion of the Year 1930 ( MCMXXX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display 1930 calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

Lawrence was born in Carnegie, Oklahoma. Carnegie is a town in Caddo County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 1637 at the 2000 census. Oklahoma ( is a state located in the South Central region of the United States of America. She began her career as a photographer's model at a very young age, and appeared in her first film at age 15, Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe (1945). She was featured in the 1947 swashbuckler, "Captain from Castile" with Tyrone Power. Tyrone Edmund Power Jr (May 5 1914 – November 15 1958 usually credited simply as Tyrone Power and known sometimes as " Ty Power " was an While finishing her studies at UCLA, she attracted the attention of talent scouts, and Lawrence was soon co-starring in a handful of 20th Century Fox movies, including A Letter to Three Wives and Here Comes the Nelsons. The University of California Los Angeles (generally known as UCLA) is a public research university located in Westwood Los Angeles, California, United A Letter to Three Wives is a 1949 film which tells the story of a woman who mails a letter to three women telling them she has left town with the husband of one of In 1947, at age 17, she married another actor, John Fontaine, but the couple divorced the next year.

Upon moving to MGM, Lawrence starred with Gig Young in the 3D movie, Arena. Gig Young ( November 4, 1913 &ndash October 19, 1978) was an Academy Award -winning American Film and She then starred in Her Twelve Men with Greer Garson. Eileen Evelyn Greer Garson, CBE ( September 29, 1904 - April 6, 1996) was an English-American actress who was Lawrence also played the major role of Gertie Cummings in the movie Oklahoma!. Oklahoma! is the first musical written by composer Richard Rodgers and librettist Oscar Hammerstein II. In 1951 the actress married Johnny Murphy, and the couple had two children together before divorcing in 1957.

In 1957, Lawrence starred in the sci-fi film Kronos with Jeff Morrow. Kronos (Ravager of Planets is a 1957 Black and white Science fiction film directed by Kurt Neumann, starring Jeff Morrow Irving "Jeff" Morrow (b January 13, 1907 in New York City; d Although the film was not praised by critics at the time, it eventually attracted a cult following for its imaginative storyline and special effects.

After doing a number of television shows in the late 1950s and early 1960s she spent several years in South America. After marrying Lester R. Nelson in 1961 she had a few more 1962 TV appearances and then retired from acting altogether, divorcing Nelson in 1976. Lawrence eventually became a Beverly Hills real estate agent and, more recently, a novelist with Welcome to the Jungle, an adventure story based on her experiences living in South America. Lawrence has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The Hollywood Walk of Fame is a Sidewalk along Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street in Hollywood Los Angeles California, USA, that

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