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Joan Leslie
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From All Movie Guide: 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.
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Actress Joan Leslie waves to the crowd of shipyard workers who surrounded her and the other dignitaries when they visited the Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation yard on September 7, 1942. Miss Leslie perched on the back seat of an open automobile where she can easily be seen by the massive crowd. Leon E. Titus, the chairman of the Pierce County War Savings staff (far right), Tacoma Mayor Harry P. Cain and H.S. McIllvaigh of the Tacoma Central Labor Council sat in front of her. Miss Leslie was only 17 at the time of her Tacoma appearance but she had been in films since the age of 11 when she appeared in Camille under her given name Brodel. Before she turned 18, she had acted in High Sierra and Yankee Doodle Dandy.
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The final nail in the coffin for Joan And Leslie came from HSV-7’s inability to sell the programme to interstate stations. Without the financial help of other network channels, the series had very little hope of survival. This, coupled with the lukewarm Melbourne ratings, was sufficient for HSV-7 to cut their losses and buy out of the contract, truncating the series at 13 episodes. Interstate sales eventually followed at ‘bargain basement’ prices, and
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Synopsis: On New Year's Eve, Joan Leslie runs desperately out of a penthouse apartment and into the Times Square crowd. She has reason to flee--she has just shot and killed her husband. Through a freakish wrinkle in time, Leslie is transported back to the last New Year's and is allowed to relive the pastRead More
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It's hard to believe that this picture has never been released commercially on VHS or DVD. 'Repeat Performance' stars Joan Leslie, who was black-balled in Hollywood and ended up at the Poverty Row studios of Eagle Lion. She made this movie with a chip on her shoulder, come Monday night and find out why.
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Born Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland, Joan Fontaine began her acting career in her late teens with various West Coast stage companies under the name Joan Burfield. She ... used that name when she made her 1935 feature film debut in No More Ladies, in which she had a minor role. The daughter of '40s...Read More
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