Background
Barbara Brown was born in 1901 in Los Angeles, California, to Selma C. (née Teutschmann. 1874–1947) and Edward Brown. Her mother was the daughter of German immigrants.
Barbara Brown was born in 1901 in Los Angeles, California, to Selma C. (née Teutschmann. 1874–1947) and Edward Brown. Her mother was the daughter of German immigrants.
Brown began acting on the stage in California. She went on to act in Broadway plays such as Relations (1928), Mother Lode (1934), Play, Genius, Play! (1935), Behind Red Lights (1937), Sun Kissed (1937), Our Town (1938), and Liberty Jones (1941). Brown began appearing in films in the early 1940s.
She played Mistress
Delfina Acuña, the mother of Rita Hayworth"s character, in You Were Never Lovelier (1942), starring Fred Astaire and Hayworth. In 1944, she was cast in Janie and Hollywood Canteen. She and Ray Collins played Ma and Pa Kettle"s in-laws in the comedies Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm (1951) and Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation (1953).
She had a supporting role in the Abbott and Costello comedy Jack and the Beanstalk (1952).
Taylor died in 1968, and Brown died on July 7, 1975 in Los Los Angeles Both were interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills.
