Joan Leslie
- Birthday
- Jan 26, 1925
- Birthplace
- Detroit, Michigan, USA
Bio: 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… More Bio: 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, Rovi
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Filmography
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The Yellow Brick Road and Beyond (2008)
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Warner Bros. and the Homefront (2008)
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Power of the Cross (2007)
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Fire in the Dark (1991)
- Ruthie
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Turn Back the Clock (1989)
- Party Guest
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Joan Leslie Videos
Foreign Correspondent
2 minutes 21 seconds
James Cagney That Yankee Doodle Dandy
2 minutes 55 seconds
High Sierra
3 minutes 40 seconds
Camille
2 minutes 3 seconds
Love Affair
1 minutes 13 seconds
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