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Leslie Brooks

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.

Known For

Cover Girl
6.4

A nightclub dancer makes it big in modeling, leaving her dancer boyfriend behind.

Cover Girl

1944
The Talk of the Town
7.3

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.

The Talk of the Town

1942
Blonde Ice
5.7

A golddigging femme fatale leaves a trail of men behind her, rich and poor, alive and dead.

Blonde Ice

1948
Ziegfeld Girl
6.7

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.

Ziegfeld Girl

1941
Hollow Triumph
6.6

Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity—with unfortunate results.

Hollow Triumph

1948
The Man Who Came to Dinner
7.0

An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in indefinitely with a Midwestern family.

The Man Who Came to Dinner

1941
Romance on the High Seas
6.7

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.

Romance on the High Seas

1948
You Were Never Lovelier
7.1

An Argentine heiress thinks a penniless American dancer is her secret admirer.

You Were Never Lovelier

1942
Nine Girls
5.8

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.

Nine Girls

1944
Tonight and Every Night
5.4

An American girl falls for an RAF pilot while performing at a British music hall.

Tonight and Every Night

1945
City Without Men
5.7

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.

City Without Men

1943
Underground Agent
9.0

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.

Underground Agent

1942
Lucky Legs
9.0

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.

Lucky Legs

1942
The Secret of the Whistler
6.1

A deranged artist who may have murdered his wife is investigated by the Whistler.

The Secret of the Whistler

1946
Navy Blues
4.8

On a layover in Hawaii, two conniving Navy seamen borrow money to wager bets that their ship will win the upcoming gunnery practice trophy, having found out that the current champ has just transferred aboard their ship. What they haven't realized, however, is that the marksman's enlistment is up before the contest is supposed to take place.

Navy Blues

1941
The Corpse Came C.O.D.
6.5

Rival reporters (George Brent, Joan Blondell) investigate a Hollywood star (Adele Jergens) and the box she receives with a dead man inside.

The Corpse Came C.O.D.

1947
You're in the Army Now
4.4

Incompetent door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesmen become enlisted without their knowledge.

You're in the Army Now

1941
The Cobra Strikes
7.5

A newspaper reporter investigates the near-fatal shooting of a medical scientist.

The Cobra Strikes

1948
Two Señoritas from Chicago
6.7

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.

Two Señoritas from Chicago

1943
Overland to Deadwood
9.0

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.....

Overland to Deadwood

1942