Leota Lorraine
Acting
Biography
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Born: March 14, 1899
Place of Birth: Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Known For
Singin' in the Rain
In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his paranoid screen partner struggle to make the difficult transition to talking pictures.
All About Eve
From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take the reins of power away from the great actress Margo Channing. Eve maneuvers her way into Margo's Broadway role, becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil in the lives of Margo's director boyfriend, her playwright and his wife. Only the cynical drama critic sees through Eve, admiring her audacity and perfect pattern of deceit.
Notorious
In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman, the American daughter of a convicted German war criminal, as a spy. As they begin to fall for one another, Alicia is instructed to win the affections of Alexander Sebastian, a Nazi hiding out in Brazil. When Sebastian becomes serious about his relationship with Alicia, the stakes get higher, and Devlin must watch her slip further undercover.
Monsieur Verdoux
The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux has been laid-off. To make money for his wife and child, he marries wealthy widows and then murders them. His crime spree eventually works against him when two particular widows break his normal routine.
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Holly Golightly is an eccentric New York City playgirl determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire. But when young writer Paul Varjak moves into her apartment building, her past threatens to get in their way.
An Affair to Remember
A couple falls in love and agrees to meet in six months at the Empire State Building - but will it happen?
Holiday
Johnny Case, a freethinking financier, has finally found the girl of his dreams — Julia Seton, the spoiled daughter of a socially prominent millionaire — and she's agreed to marry him. But when Johnny plans a holiday for the two to enjoy life while they are still young, his fiancée has other plans & that is for Johnny to work in her father's bank!
Hellzapoppin'
Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together a young couple in love, while breaking the fourth wall every step of the way.
Sitting Pretty
Tacey and Harry King are a suburban couple with three sons and a serious need of a babysitter. Tacey puts an ad in the paper for a live-in babysitter, and the ad is answered by Lynn Belvedere. But when she arrives, she turns out to be a man. And not just any man, but a most eccentric, outrageously forthright genius with seemingly a million careers and experiences behind him.
Ruggles of Red Gap
In this comedy of an Englishman stranded in a sea of barbaric Americans, Marmaduke Ruggles - a gentleman's gentleman and butler to an Earl - is lost in a poker game to an uncouth American cattle baron. Ruggles' life is turned upside down as he's taken to the USA, is gradually assimilated into American life, accidentally becomes a local celebrity, and falls in love along the way.
Filmography
as Party Guest (uncredited)
as Party Guest (uncredited)
as Dancing Guest (uncredited)
as Guest at Charity Ball (uncredited)
as Party Guest (uncredited)
as Ballet Audience Member (uncredited)
as Party Guest (uncredited)
as Businesswoman (uncredited)
as Sitting Party Guest
as Reception Guest (uncredited)
as Film Crew Member (uncredited)
as Match Spectator (uncredited)
as Sarah Siddons Awards Guest (uncredited)
as Charity Ball Guest (uncredited)
as Guest (uncredited)
as Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
as Audience Member (uncredited)
as Wedding Guest (uncredited)
as Conference Guest (uncredited)
as Garden Party Guest (uncredited)
as Townswoman (uncredited)
as Boray Fan (uncredited)
as Wedding Guest (uncredited)
as Woman (uncredited)
as Woman (uncredited)
as Officer's Wife (uncredited)
as Speakeasy Patron (uncredited)
as Ball Guest (uncredited)
as Ball Guest (uncredited)
as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
as Audience Member (uncredited)
as Churchgoer (uncredited)
as Female Creditor
as Party Guest (uncredited)
as Spanky's Mother
as Mrs. Belknap-Jackson
as Ronny's Sister
as Silvette Tennant
as Florence Crosby
as Beth Vance
as Carlotta La Mere
as Blanche Fisher
as Pinkie le Rue
as Lillian
as Edith
as Dorothy Robinson
as 'Babe' Fleur de Lis
as Miriam Faversham
as Miss Baker