Andrea Leeds

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.

  • Titel: Andrea Leeds
  • Popularität: 1.402
  • Bekannt für: Acting
  • Geburtstag: 1914-08-18
  • Geburtsort: Butte, Montana, USA
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  • Auch bekannt als: Antoinette Lees
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  • 1937
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    Bühneneingang

    Bühneneingang

    6.941 1937 HD

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  • 1936
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    Nimm, was du kriegen kannst

    Nimm, was du kriegen kannst

    6.736 1936 HD

    Der Karriere wegen verlässt der kaltherzige Barney (Edward Arnold) seine Geliebte Lotta (Frances Farmer). Daraufhin heiratet sie den...

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  • 1938
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    Letter of Introduction

    Letter of Introduction

    5.9 1938 HD

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  • 1939
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    Verrat im Dschungel

    Verrat im Dschungel

    6.3 1939 HD

    Fort Mysang, südliche Philippinen, unter amerikanischer Herrschaft, 1906. Eine kleine Gruppe von Armeeoffizieren und einheimischen Truppen wehrt...

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  • 1939
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    Musik fürs Leben

    Musik fürs Leben

    6 1939 HD

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  • 1939
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    Swanee River

    Swanee River

    6.5 1939 HD

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  • 1937
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    It Could Happen to You

    It Could Happen to You

    1 1937 HD

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  • 1934
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    Elinor Norton

    Elinor Norton

    6 1934 HD

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  • 1938
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    The Goldwyn Follies

    The Goldwyn Follies

    4.727 1938 HD

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  • 1940
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    Earthbound

    Earthbound

    4.8 1940 HD

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  • 1938
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    Youth Takes a Fling

    Youth Takes a Fling

    1 1938 HD

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  • 1936
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    General Sutter

    General Sutter

    1 1936 HD

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  • 1933
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    Meet the Baron

    Meet the Baron

    4.3 1933 HD

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  • 1936
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    Song of the Trail

    Song of the Trail

    5 1936 HD

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  • 1936
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    The Count Takes the Count

    The Count Takes the Count

    5 1936 HD

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  • 1935
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    Das Schiff des Satans

    Das Schiff des Satans

    6.2 1935 HD

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  • 1988
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    The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind

    The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind

    8 1988 HD

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  • 1936
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    Mein Mann Godfrey

    Mein Mann Godfrey

    7.6 1936 HD

    Die verwöhnten New Yorker Erbinnen Cornelia und Irene Bullock nehmen an einer extravaganten “Schnitzeljagd” teil, bei der nach einem...

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  • 1936
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    Forgotten Faces

    Forgotten Faces

    1 1936 HD

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