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Nina Bara(1920-1990)

  • Actress
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Nina Bara
Beautiful Nina Bara was born in Buenos Aires to Italian ballet dancer Caroline Baur and an American father. Bara was an expert in dialects and worked on radio shows, then in the 1940s at MGM and 20th Century Fox as a contract player, acting in Westerns and dramas. She will be most remembered by the Baby Boomer Generation for her role as the exotic Miss Tonga in the 1951 "Space Patrol" series.
BornMay 3, 1920
DiedAugust 15, 1990(70)
BornMay 3, 1920
DiedAugust 15, 1990(70)
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Known for

Space Patrol (1950)
Space Patrol
6.9
TV Series
  • Tonga
Missile to the Moon (1958)
Missile to the Moon
4.1
  • Alpha
  • 1958
Roscoe Ates, Eddie Dean, Terry Frost, and Shirley Patterson in Black Hills (1947)
Black Hills
5.4
  • Chiquita
  • 1947
December Bride (1954)
December Bride
7.9
TV Series
  • Actress

Credits

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Actress

  • Ronald Reagan in General Electric Theater (1953)
    General Electric Theater
    6.8
    TV Series
    • Maria
    • 1961
  • Missile to the Moon (1958)
    Missile to the Moon
    4.1
    • Alpha
    • 1958
  • December Bride (1954)
    December Bride
    7.9
    TV Series
    • 1957
  • Space Patrol (1950)
    Space Patrol
    6.9
    TV Series
    • Tonga
    • 1950–1955
  • Hollywood Theatre Time
    5.7
    TV Series
    • 1951
  • Hedy Lamarr and John Hodiak in A Lady Without Passport (1950)
    A Lady Without Passport
    6.1
    • Young Cuban Girl (uncredited)
    • 1950
  • Ann E. Todd, Jane Powell, Elinor Donahue, José Iturbi, and Jeanette MacDonald in Three Daring Daughters (1948)
    Three Daring Daughters
    6.2
    • Cuban Singer (uncredited)
    • 1948
  • Roscoe Ates, Eddie Dean, Terry Frost, and Shirley Patterson in Black Hills (1947)
    Black Hills
    5.4
    • Chiquita
    • 1947
  • Training for Trouble
    6.0
    Short
    • Actress Having Dinner
    • 1947
  • Ann Miller in The Thrill of Brazil (1946)
    The Thrill of Brazil
    5.9
    • Specialty Dancer (uncredited)
    • 1946
  • Buster Keaton, Lucille Ball, Van Johnson, Jack Cummings, Dorothy Kingsley, George Oppenheimer, Howard Emmett Rogers, Edward Sedgwick, Maurine Dallas Watkins, Esther Williams, and Keenan Wynn in Easy to Wed (1946)
    Easy to Wed
    6.1
    • Rumba Dancer (uncredited)
    • 1946
  • Paul Henreid, Eleanor Parker, and Alexis Smith in Of Human Bondage (1946)
    Of Human Bondage
    6.3
    • Model (uncredited)
    • 1946
  • Rita Hayworth in Gilda (1946)
    Gilda
    7.6
    • Girl at Carnival (uncredited)
    • 1946
  • Clark Gable, Joan Blondell, Greer Garson, Victor Fleming, Richard Haydn, Thomas Mitchell, John Qualen, Tom Tully, and Sam Zimbalist in Adventure (1945)
    Adventure
    6.2
    • Girl (uncredited)
    • 1945
  • Fred Astaire and Lucille Bremer in Yolanda and the Thief (1945)
    Yolanda and the Thief
    5.9
    • Chambermaid (uncredited)
    • 1945

Personal details

  • Born
    • May 3, 1920
    • Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Died
    • August 15, 1990
    • Glendale, California, USA(cancer)

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    Was "Miss EMMY" for the Award Presentation of February 18, 1952.

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