Introducing Barbara Knudsen -- She's a heavy in her first featured role in the movies, but in real life you'd like to meet Barbara Knudsen, wouldn't you? She's an ex-Las Vegas, Nev., drum majorette who has paraded right into the movies at Universal-International studio and is getting a build up. Barbara perpetrates her villainy in "The Lady from Texas," U-I's Technicolor film starring Josephine Hull, Howard Duff and Mona Freeman. January 01, 1951.