JOAN LESLIE
ACTING
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Joan Leslie (born Joan Agnes Theresa Sadie Brodel; January 26, 1925 – October 12, 2015) was an American actress, dancer, and vaudevillian who, during the Hollywood Golden Age, appeared in such films as High Sierra, Sergeant York, and Yankee Doodle Dandy.
Joan Agnes Theresa Sadie Brodel was born on January 26, 1925, in Highland Park, Michigan, the youngest child of John and Agnes Brodel.
At 15, Leslie had her first significant role as the crippled girl in High Sierra (1941), starring Humphrey Bogart and Ida Lupino.
The same year she played in Sergeant York as York's fiancée.
Leslie had a supporting role in The Male Animal (1942) as Olivia de Havilland's younger sister.
- Yankee Doodle Dandy1942
- High Sierra1941
- Repeat Performance1947
- The Hard Way1943
- Man in the Saddle1951
- Born to Be Bad1950
- The Sky's the Limit1943
- This Is the Army1943
- Rhapsody in Blue1945
- Thank Your Lucky Stars1943
- Sergeant York1941
- The Male Animal1942
- The Wagons Roll at Night1941
- The Revolt of Mamie Stover1956
- Woman They Almost Lynched1953
- Jubilee Trail1954
- Hellgate1952
- Toughest Man in Arizona1952
- Janie Gets Married1946
- Thieves Fall Out1941
- Men with Wings1938
- High School1940
- Two Guys from Milwaukee1946
- Flight Nurse1953
- Cinderella Jones1946
- Nine Lives Are Not Enough1941
- Alice in Movieland1940
- Laddie1940
- Northwest Stampede1948
- Two Thoroughbreds1939
- Star Dust1940
- Susan and God1940
- The Skipper Surprised His Wife1950
- The Great Mr. Nobody1941
- Nancy Drew... Reporter1939
- Hill Number One: A Story of Faith and Inspiration1951
- Too Young to Know1945
- Hell's Outpost1954
- Foreign Correspondent1940
- Winter Carnival1939
- Camille1936
- Love Affair1939
- Young as You Feel1940
- Where Do We Go from Here?1945
- General Electric Theater1953
- Murder, She Wrote1984
- Charlie's Angels1976