Leona Powers
Acting
Biography
Leona Powers was born on March 13, 1896 in Salida, Colorado, USA. She was an actress, known for Robert Montgomery Presents (1950), Sweet Surrender (1935) and The Big Break (1953). She was married to Howard Miller (actor). She died on January 7, 1970 in New York City, New York, USA.
Known For
Lured by their dreams of fame and fortune, three ambitious young women enter the world of show business and discover how easy it is to sink into a celebrity nightmare of ego, alcohol and pills — the beloved "dolls."
Valley of the Dolls
A state welfare agent persuades a Maine lobsterman to take a troubled orphan boy aboard.
Deep Waters
Anti-war propaganda musical set on an ocean liner.
Sweet Surrender
Marty is a shipping clerk in the garment district and a wise guy trying to cut corners and get by on angles, and not very good at it. He meets Helen and decides to change his ways, but lack of patience in slow-progress jobs leads him to become involved with a neighborhood gang.
The Big Break
Lamont Cranston, a psychiatrist on retainer to the police department, is asked to assist in the Case of the Cotton Kimono murder investigation. Lamont and his girlfriend Margot Lane are not satisfied with Detective Harris' analysis and call on the two prime suspects: the victim's voice instructor and her boyfriend. When Harris, convinced that the boyfriend is guilty, frames the young man for the crime, Lamont is forced to assume his secret identity as "The Shadow", and cloaked by his power of invisibility, seeks to force the true killer to reveal himself.