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person_profile-Andrea Leeds

Andrea Leeds Died at age: 69

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Andrea Leeds

Date of Birth:

Aug 18, 1914

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

May 21, 1984

Biography of

Andrea Leeds

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Andrea Leeds (August 18, 1914 – May 21, 1984) was an American film actress. A popular supporting player of the late 1930s, Leeds was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Stage Door (1937). She was progressing to leading roles, when she retired from acting following her marriage in 1939, and was later a successful horse breeder.

    She began her film career in 1933 playing bit parts and using her given name. As Andrea Leeds she played her first substantial role in the film Come and Get It (1936) and achieved another success with her next film It Could Happen to You! (1937).

    As part of an ensemble cast that included Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers and Lucille Ball, Leeds was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as an aspiring actress in Stage Door (1937). She read for the role of Melanie in Gone with the Wind, however the role was given to Olivia de Havilland.

    Her wholesome quality led to her being cast in The Goldwyn Follies (1938) playing "Miss Humanity" – a woman considered by a jaded Hollywood executive to represent the ideal American woman. The film was not a success and received poor reviews.

    She next appeared in two films opposite Joel McCrea (who earlier played her brother in Come and Get It), Youth Takes a Fling (1938) and They Shall Have Music (1939), for the first time playing the lead female role. She continued to play the romantic female lead in an adventure film set in the 1906 Philippines, The Real Glory, opposite Gary Cooper and David Niven, and opposite Don Ameche in the first Technicolor biography of Stephen Foster, Swanee River (1939).

    Her final film, Earthbound (1940), was a fantasy murder mystery in which Leeds' character solves the murder of her husband, aided by his ghost.

    These films were relatively successful and Leeds remained a popular actress. In 1939 she married Robert Stewart Howard, son of California businessman and racehorse owner Charles S. Howard, and decided to leave films to devote herself to raising a family. Her father-in-law owned and raced Seabiscuit, and with her husband she became a successful horse owner/breeder.

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Andrea Leeds

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Filmography of

Andrea Leeds

Found 18 Movies in total

... 1988

Earthbound

Ellen Besborough ( Actor )

... 1940

Swanee River

Jane McDowell Foster ( Actor )

... 1939

The Real Glory

Linda Hartley ( Actor )

... 1939

They Shall Have Music

Ann Lawson ( Actor )

... 1939

Youth Takes a Fling

Helen Brown ( Actor )

... 1938

Letter of Introduction

Kay Martin ( Actor )

... 1938

The Goldwyn Follies

Hazel Dawes ( Actor )

... 1938

Stage Door

Kay Hamilton ( Actor )

... 1937

It Could Happen to You

Laura Compton ( Actor )

... 1937

Come and Get It

Evvie Glasgow ( Actor )

... 1936

My Man Godfrey

Socialite at Scavenger Hunt (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1936

Forgotten Faces

Salesgirl ( Actor )

... 1936

Song of the Trail

Betty Hobson ( Actor )

... 1936

Sutter's Gold

Nurse ( Actor )

... 1936

Dante's Inferno

Anna ( Actor )

... 1935

Elinor Norton

Nurse ( Actor )

... 1934

Meet the Baron

College Girl (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1933