Joanna Barnes, an actress known for her roles in The Parent Trap and Tarzan: The Ape Man, has passed away. She was 87. The actress took her last breath on Friday at her Sea Ranch, Calif., home after enduring 'multiple health problems,' her close friend Sally Jackson told The Hollywood Reporter.
Filmmaker Nancy Meyers took to social media to pay her last respects to Joanna Barnes. She wrote, "Joanna was so lovely. So great to work with. So upbeat and joyful. I was so happy she agreed to play Meredith’s mother after playing Vicky in the original Parent Trap. My condolences to her loved ones."
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Barnes moved to Los Angeles soon after finishing her education and took up a contract with Columbia Pictures. She went on to have roles in more than 20 films. Among her most remembered roles is the snooty Gloria Upson in the film Auntie Mame (1958), which earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination for New Star of the Year. Barnes became the 13th actress to play Jane when she appeared in Tarzan, the Ape Man (1959), with Denny Miller as Tarzan.
In Disney's original 1961 version of The Parent Trap starring Hayley Mills, Barnes played gold-digger Vicki Robinson, who temporarily comes between Maureen O'Hara and Brian Keith. In the 1998 remake starring Lindsay Lohan, she played Vicki Blake, the mother of the child-hating gold-digger and fiancée Meredith Blake (Elaine Hendrix). In 1967, she appeared in The War Wagon, a western movie starring John Wayne and Kirk Douglas.
