Leslie Brooks

Leslie Brooks

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

死亡 : 2011-07-01

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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.

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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.
The Scar
Virginia Taylor
Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity—with unfortunate results.
Blonde Ice
Claire Cummings Hanneman
A golddigging femme fatale leaves a trail of men behind her, rich and poor, alive and dead.
Romance on the High Seas
Miss Medwick
Georgia Garrett is sent by jealous wife Elvira Kent on an ocean cruise to masquerade as herself while she secretly stays home to catch her husband cheating. Meanwhile equally suspicious husband Michael Kent has sent a private eye on the same cruise to catch his wife cheating. Love and confusion ensues along with plenty of musical numbers.
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.
Tonight and Every Night
Angela
An American girl falls for an RAF pilot while performing at a British music hall.
Cover Girl
Maurine, Rusty's blonde friend / rival
A nightclub dancer makes it big in modeling, leaving her dancer boyfriend behind.
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.
You Were Never Lovelier
Cecy Acuña
An Argentine heiress thinks a penniless American dancer is her secret admirer.
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.....
The Talk of the Town
Secretary (uncredited)
When the Holmes Woolen Mill burns down, political activist Leopold Dilg is jailed for arson and accidental murder. Escaping, Leopold hides out in the home of his childhood sweetheart Nora Shelley... which she has just rented to unsuspecting law professor Michael Lightcap.
The Man Who Came to Dinner
Hollywood Blonde (uncredited)
An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in indefinitely with a Midwestern family.
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.
Ziegfeld Girl
Ziegfeld Girl (Uncredited)
Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on Broadway: Susan, the singer who must leave behind her ageing vaudevillian father; vulnerable Sheila, the working girl pursued both by a millionaire and by her loyal boyfriend from Flatbush; and the mysterious European beauty Sandra, whose concert violinist husband cannot endure the thought of their escaping from poverty by promenading her glamor in skimpy costumes.