Leona Powers

Birth : 1896-03-13, Salida, Colorado, USA

Death : 1970-01-07

History

Leona Powers was born on March 13, 1896 in Salida, Colorado, USA. She was an actress, known for Robert Montgomery Presents (1950), Sweet Surrender (1935) and The Big Break (1953). She was married to Howard Miller (actor). She died on January 7, 1970 in New York City, New York, USA.

Movies

Valley of the Dolls
Woman at Martha Washington Hotel (uncredited)
In New York City, bright but naive New Englander Anne Welles becomes a secretary at a theatrical law firm, where she falls in love with attorney Lyon Burke. Anne befriends up-and-coming singer Neely O'Hara, whose dynamic talent threatens aging star Helen Lawson and beautiful but talentless actress Jennifer North. The women experience success and failure in love and work, leading to heartbreak, addiction and tragedy.
The Shadow
The Landlady
Lamont Cranston, a psychiatrist on retainer to the police department, is asked to assist in the Case of the Cotton Kimono murder investigation. Lamont and his girlfriend Margot Lane are not satisfied with Detective Harris' analysis and call on the two prime suspects: the victim's voice instructor and her boyfriend. When Harris, convinced that the boyfriend is guilty, frames the young man for the crime, Lamont is forced to assume his secret identity as "The Shadow", and cloaked by his power of invisibility, seeks to force the true killer to reveal himself.
The Big Break
Marty is a shipping clerk in the garment district and a wise guy trying to cut corners and get by on angles, and not very good at it. He meets Helen and decides to change his ways, but lack of patience in slow-progress jobs leads him to become involved with a neighborhood gang.
The Front Page
Mrs. Grant
Newspaper comedy based loosely on the 1928 stage-play and its subsequent film adaptations.
Deep Waters
Mrs. Freeman
A state welfare agent persuades a Maine lobsterman to take a troubled orphan boy aboard.
Sweet Surrender
Anti-war propaganda musical set on an ocean liner.