Name
Leslie Brooks
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1922-07-13
Deathday
2011-07-01 (89 years old)
Place of Birth
Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
Biography
At first acting under her given name of Lorraine Gettman, blonde film actress Leslie Brooks began appearing in movie bit roles in 1941. When her Warner Bros. contract was sold to Columbia, Brooks started landing more sizeable parts in such programs as Nine Girls (1944) and Cover Girl (1944). She was also seen to good advantage in Columbia's series films (The Whistler, Crime Doctor, et al.). Leslie Brooks retired from films in 1949.
Known For
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Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as thr...
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A nightclub dancer makes it big in modeling, leaving her dancer boyfriend behind....
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An Argentine heiress thinks a penniless American dancer is her secret admirer....
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Hilarity ensues when a falsely accused fugitive from justice hides at the house of his chi...
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Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity—with unfor...
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Georgia Garrett is sent by jealous wife Elvira Kent on an ocean cruise to masquerade as he...
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An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in indefinitely with a...
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An American girl falls for an RAF pilot while performing at a British music hall....
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A golddigging femme fatale leaves a trail of men behind her, rich and poor, alive and dead...
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A deranged artist who may have murdered his wife is investigated by the Whistler....
- 1944 Cover Girl as Maurine Martin
- 1948 Hollow Triumph as Virginia Taylor
- 1948 Blonde Ice as Claire Cummings Hanneman
- 1946 The Secret of the Whistler as Kay Morrell
- 1948 Romance on the High Seas as Miss Medwick
- 1945 Tonight and Every Night as Angela
- 1942 You Were Never Lovelier as Cecy Acuña
- 1947 The Corpse Came C.O.D. as Peggy Holmes
- 1946 The Man Who Dared as Lorna Claibourne
- 1941 Ziegfeld Girl as Ziegfeld Girl (uncredited)
- 1943 City Without Men as Gwen
- 1945 I Love a Bandleader as Ann Stuart
- 1942 Overland to Deadwood as Linda Banning
- 1971 How's Your Love Life? as Dr. Maureen John
- 1942 Underground Agent as Ann Carter
- 1941 Navy Blues as Navy Blues Sextet Member (as Loraine Gettman)
- 1942 Lucky Legs as Jewel Perkins
- 1942 The Playgirls as Sexette Membee
- 1947 Cigarette Girl as Ellen WIlcox
- 1942 The Talk of the Town as Secretary (uncredited)
- 1943 Two Señoritas from Chicago as Lena Worth
- 1944 Nine Girls as Roberta Halloway
- 1948 The Cobra Strikes as Olga Kaminoff
- 1941 You're in the Army Now as Navy Blues Sextette Member
- 1941 The Man Who Came to Dinner as Hollywood Blonde (uncredited)
- 1946 It's Great to Be Young as Terry
