Leslie Brooks

Leslie Brooks

Nacimiento : 1922-07-13, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA

Muerte : 2011-07-01

Historia

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.

Perfil

Leslie Brooks

Películas

How's Your Love Life?
Dr. Maureen John
Jack Romanti runs a theater company that offers sexual therapy as well as a break in the movie business to insecure and inexperienced young new talents. This boils down to them being pimped out to sponsors but they all benefit from it.
La cicatriz
Virginia Taylor
Tras salir de la cárcel, John Muller (Paul Henreid), un astuto criminal con estudios en medicina y psiquiatría, sueña con el día en que logre dar "el gran golpe". Mientras tanto se ve obligado a desempeñar un aburrido trabajo de oficina. Un día, Mullerdecide llevar a cabo su sueño, robando en un conocido club de juego, propiedad del mafioso Rocky Stansyck. Tras el golpe y durante su huida, Muller será confundido con el Dr. Bartok, prestigioso psiquiatra, debido a su asombroso parecido. Muller tratará de aprovechar la ocasión para esconderse, suplantando la personalidad del doctor. Para ello, deberá auto infringirse una herida que le deja una cicatriz idéntica a la del conocido psiquiatra...
Blonde Ice
Claire Cummings Hanneman
A golddigging femme fatale leaves a trail of men behind her, rich and poor, alive and dead.
Romanza en alta mar
Miss Medwick
Una mujer sospecha que su marido se interesa por otras, pero él sospecha lo mismo de ella. Por culpa de sus negocios, él tiene que cancelar siempre sus vacaciones de aniversario y dejar que su mujer se vaya sola. En una ocasión, para poder espiar a su marido, ella contrata a una cantante de cabaret (Doris Day) para que viaje a América del Sur en su lugar. Mientras tanto, su esposo contrata a un detective (Jack Carson) para vigilar a su esposa durante su viaje.
The Cobra Strikes
Olga Kaminoff
A newspaper reporter investigates the near-fatal shooting of a medical scientist.
The Corpse Came C.O.D.
Peggy Holmes
Rival reporters (George Brent, Joan Blondell) investigate a Hollywood star (Adele Jergens) and the box she receives with a dead man inside.
Cigarette Girl
Ellen WIlcox
A young man and woman base their love on lies that eventually manage to come true.
The Secret of the Whistler
Kay Morrell
A deranged artist who may have murdered his wife is investigated by the Whistler.
It's Great to Be Young
Terry
Ricky Malone, Spud Winters and some other returning G.I.'s are trying to break into show business by the old summer resort. Terry, a runaway daughter of a big producer who is trying to stifle her show-biz career, hires on as the (dubbed) singer.
The Man Who Dared
Lorna Claibourne
A crusading reporter plans his own arrest and conviction for first degree murder, trying to show that the death sentence should be outlawed when based on circumstantial evidence alone, but his plan goes awry.
I Love a Bandleader
Ann Stuart
A painter suffering from amnesia convinces himself that he's a famous bandleader and finds romance with a pretty singer. Comedy with music.
Esta noche y todas las noches
Angela
Aunque muestra unas excepcionales dotes para el baile, el joven Tommy no es admitido en una compañía porque, según la directora, su modo de bailar no sigue un método clásico. Sin embargo, Rosalind y Judy, dos bailarinas de la compañía, se ofrecen a enseñarle a bailar con método, con lo cual el muchacho es admitido. Poco tiempo después Tommy y las dos chicas llegan a formar un trío de baile sensacional.
Las modelos
Maurine, Rusty's blonde friend / rival
Una bailarina de Brooklyn abandona a su novio tras ganar un concurso de belleza y convertirse en una famosa modelo de revista, pero pronto descubrirá que la fama y la fortuna no pueden reemplazar al amor verdadero.
Nine Girls
Roberta Halloway
One of the members of a sorority is found murdered. Although the police are called in to investigate, some of the girls decide to do some sleuthing on their own to unmask the killer.
Two Señoritas from Chicago
Lena Worth
The Two Senoritas from Chicago are Gloria and Maria. When their goofy pal Daisy Baker passes off a discarded Portuguese play manuscript as her own, producer Rupert Shannon agrees to bankroll the production. With stars in their eyes, Gloria and Maria pretend to be a pair of Portuguese musical comedy stars, thereby winning parts in the new production. The fun begins when the play's original authors sell the same manuscript to a rival producer.
City Without Men
Gwen
A young woman's husband has been imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. In order to be near him to try to help him get his sentence overturned, she moves into a boardinghouse near the prison whose residents are the wives of inmates.
Underground Agent
Ann Carter
In this espionage caper, a government spy must keep enemy agents from spying upon a defense plant. His work is made easier by his newest invention, a word scrambler which makes it difficult for the enemy agent.
Bailando nace el amor
Cecy Acuña
En la acaudalada familia argentina de los Acuña la tradición exige que las hijas se casen por orden de edad. Cuando la mayor se casa, las otras dos hermanas apremian a la segunda, María, para que busque marido. Pero María todavía no ha encontrado un hombre que le guste.
Lucky Legs
Jewel Perkins
Chorus girl Gloria Carroll inherits one million dollars from Broadway playboy Herbert Dinwiddle. Producer Ned McLane persuades her to advance him the money on a production called "Lucky Legs" that will star her. Unfortunately, the money has "made the rounds" prior to reaching Gloria and several less-than-scrupulous characters set out to separate Gloria from her inheritance.
Overland to Deadwood
Linda Banning
Cash Quinlan, owner of the Hauling Company, is the leader behind a gang of raiders who have been robbing stagecoaches between Mesquite and Deadwood. He hopes by doing so to drive his competitors out of business so that he can get the railroad franchise for himself.....
El asunto del día
Secretary (uncredited)
Leopold Dilg huye de la cárcel donde cumplía condena por incendio, y se esconde en casa de Nora, una amiga de la infancia. Pero resulta que ésta ha alquilado la casa durante el verano a Michael Lighcap, candidato al Tribunal Supremo. Dilg, que se hace pasar por el jardinero, y Nora logran convencer al magistrado de que Dilg es inocente. Entonces los tres intentan atrapar a los verdaderos delincuentes; pero, al mismo tiempo, los dos descubren que se han enamorado de Nora.
El hombre que vino a cenar
Hollywood Blonde (uncredited)
El famoso escritor Sheridan Whiteside tiene una lengua viperina y un cerebro que puede resolver el crucigrama del New York Times en cuatro minutos. En un viaje a Ohio para dar una conferencia, sufre un accidente a causa del hielo y se ve obligado a permanecer recluido en la casa de un matrimonio burgués. Su comportamiento en la casa es tiránico, la gobierna como un zar y, por si fuera poco, se entromete en la vida amorosa de todo el mundo.
You're in the Army Now
Navy Blues Sextette Member
Incompetent door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesmen become enlisted without their knowledge.
Navy Blues
Navy Blues Sextet Member (as Loraine Gettman)
On a layover in Hawaii two conniving Navy seamen borrow money to lay down bets that their ship will win the upcoming gunnery practice trophy, having found out that the current gunnery champ has just transferred aboard their ship. What they haven't learned, however, is that the marksman's enlistment is up before the contest is supposed to take place.
Las chicas de Ziegfeld
Ziegfeld Girl (Uncredited)
Tres mujeres sueñan con actuar en los musicales de Broadway de Florence Ziegfeld. Susan teme que su éxito apene a su padre, actor de vodevil en declive. Sheila se debate entre el amor a su novio y las atenciones de un millonario. Sandra está casada con un virtuoso del violín que no soporta que su mujer consiga el éxito en el mundo de las lentejuelas.