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Oct 16, 2015 · Joan got the role of Velma, a young girl with a club foot, in the Howard Hawks directed film “ High Sierra ” (1940) starring Humphrey Bogart and Ida Lupino. In the film, Bogart is a criminal on the run, and when he meets Velma, he wants to help her get an operation for her foot. At age 15, Joan Leslie with Humphrey Bogart in “High Sierra”.
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Joan Leslie was an American actress who appeared in over 50 films throughout the 1940s and '50s, including the Golden Age classics "High Sierra" (1941), "Sergeant York" (1941), and "Yankee Doodle ...
Oct 16, 2015 · Joan Leslie: “At one point, I was beginning to look more like a secure, mature, American woman”. Former screen actress Joan Leslie, one of the last surviving stars of Hollywood’s Golden Age and highly popular during the wartime years, passed away in Los Angeles at age 90 on October 12, 2015. I first met Joan Leslie in 1999 at her Los ...
Oct 15, 2015 · Joan Leslie, a star of classic Hollywood, died Monday in Los Angeles. She was 90 years old. Leslie was icon of the early film industry. In 1999, the American Film Institute named her a candidate ...
Oct 12, 2015 · From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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 ...
Oct 16, 2015 · Joan Leslie, who has died aged 90, was a petite, red-haired Hollywood star of the wartime years who blotted her copybook by taking on the might of Warner Bros.
