Leslie Brooks
Acting
Biography
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.
Born: July 13, 1922
Place of Birth: Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
Known For
The Talk of the Town
Hilarity ensues when a falsely accused fugitive from justice hides at the house of his childhood friend, which she has recently rented to a high-principled law teacher.
You Were Never Lovelier
An Argentine heiress thinks a penniless American dancer is her secret admirer.
The Man Who Came to Dinner
An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in indefinitely with a Midwestern family.
Hollow Triumph
Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity—with unfortunate results.
Romance on the High Seas
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.
Ziegfeld Girl
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.
Cover Girl
A nightclub dancer makes it big in modeling, leaving her dancer boyfriend behind.
Two Señoritas from Chicago
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.
The Secret of the Whistler
A deranged artist who may have murdered his wife is investigated by the Whistler.
The Corpse Came C.O.D.
Rival reporters (George Brent, Joan Blondell) investigate a Hollywood star (Adele Jergens) and the box she receives with a dead man inside.
Filmography
as Dr. Maureen John
as Virginia Taylor
as Claire Cummings Hanneman
as Miss Medwick
as Olga Kaminoff
as Peggy Holmes
as Ellen WIlcox
as Kay Morrell
as Lorna Claibourne
as Ann Stuart
as Angela
as Maurine Martin
as Roberta Halloway
as Lena Worth
as Gwen
as Ann Carter
as Cecy Acuña
as Jewel Perkins
as Linda Banning
as Secretary (uncredited)
as Navy Blues Sextette Member
as Hollywood Blonde (uncredited)
as Navy Blues Sextet Member (as Loraine Gettman)
as Ziegfeld Girl (uncredited)