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Joan Leslie
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BIRTHDAY
January 26, 1925
Detroit, MI
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The Plot Against Harry
(FILM)
Jan. 12, 1990
The Revolt of Mamie Stover
(FILM)
Apr. 1, 1956
Born to Be Bad
(FILM)
Jul. 15, 1950
Two Guys from Milwaukee
(FILM)
Aug. 17, 1946
This Is the Army
(FILM)
Jan. 1, 1943
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A stage actress from the age of 3, Joan Leslie toured vaudeville in a singing act with her two sisters. At ten, Leslie was an established advertising model. She came to Hollywood in 1936, making her screen debut in....
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A stage actress from the age of 3, Joan Leslie toured vaudeville in a singing act with her two sisters. At ten, Leslie was an established advertising model. She came to Hollywood in 1936, making her screen debut in Camille under her given name of Brodel. In 1940 she was signed by Warner Bros., who changed her professional name to Leslie. Though not yet 18, Leslie was cast in such meaty and demanding roles as the selfish clubfooted ingenue in High Sierra (1941) and Mrs. George M. Cohan in Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942). Loaned out to RKO in 1942, Leslie was given an opportunity to display her considerable terpsichorean skills in the Fred Astaire vehicle The Sky's the Limit. In Warners' Hollywood Canteen (1944) Lesie played herself, as did her real-life sister Betty Brodel. When her Warners contract ended in 1947, Leslie free-lanced for several years, turning in admirable performances in such second-echelon productions as Repeat Performance (1947) and The Woman They Almost Lynched (1956). She more or less retired from acting in the late 1950s, devoting herself to humanitarian work and to her new career as a dress designer. Fans of Joan Leslie all felt just a little older when Leslie was teamed with fellow 1940s ingenue Teresa Wright as a pair of doddering Arsenic and Old Lace-type sisters on a late-1980s episode of TV's Murder She Wrote.
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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Sandra Kazan
The Plot Against Harry
Released: Jan. 1, 1969
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The Revolt of Mamie Stover
Released: Jul. 6, 1956
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Born to Be Bad
Released: Jan. 1, 1950
Patrick McVey
Two Guys from Milwaukee
Released: Aug. 17, 1946
Winstead Sheffield Weaver
This Is the Army
Released: Jan. 1, 1943
Harry Hayden
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Released: Jan. 1, 1942
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Sergeant York
Released: Sep. 27, 1941
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High Sierra
Released: Jan. 1, 1941
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Foreign Correspondent
Released: Jan. 1, 1940
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Love Affair
Released: Jan. 1, 1939
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