Leila Hyams
Born: 1905-05-01 in New York City, New York, USA
Died: 1977-12-04
Known For: Acting
Biography
Leila Hyams (May 1, 1905 – December 4, 1977) was an American model, vaudeville and film actress, who came from a show business family. Her relatively short film career began in the 1920s during the era of silent films and ended in 1936. Although her career only lasted around twelve years, the blonde blue-eyed ingenue appeared in more than 50 film roles and remained a press favorite, with numerous magazine covers.
Filmography
1943
- First Aid as Red Cross Worker
1936
- Yellow Dust as Nellie Brian
1935
- Ruggles of Red Gap as Nell Kenner
- $1,000 a Minute as Dorothy Summers
- People Will Talk as Peggy Trask
1934
- Affairs of a Gentleman as Gladys Durland
- The Poor Rich as Grace Hunter
- No Ransom as Barbara Winfield
1933
- Saturday's Millions as Joan Chandler
- Horse Play as Angelica Wayne
- The Constant Woman as Lou
- Sing, Sinner, Sing as Lela Larson
1932
- Freaks as Venus
- Island of Lost Souls as Ruth Thomas
- Red-Headed Woman as Irene 'Rene' Legendre
- The Big Broadcast as Anita Rogers
1931
- The Christmas Party as Herself (uncredited)
- The Phantom of Paris as Cecile Bourrelier
- Surrender as Axelle von Meirbach
- Stepping Out as Eve Martin
- Gentleman's Fate as Marjorie Channing
- New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford as Dorothy
- Men Call It Love as Connie
1930
- The Big House as Anne Marlowe
- The Sins of the Children as Alma
- The Girl Said No as Mary Howe
- The Flirting Widow as Evelyn
- Sweethearts and Wives as Angela Worthington
- Way Out West as Molly Rankin
- Way for a Sailor as Joan
- Part Time Wife as Mrs. Murdock (Betty Rogers)
1929
- The Bishop Murder Case as Belle Dillard
- Masquerade as Sylvia Graeme
- The Idle Rich as Joan Thayer
- Spite Marriage as Ethyl Norcrosse
- Hurricane as Mary Stevens
- Wonder of Women as Karen
- The Far Call as Hilda Larsen
- The Thirteenth Chair as Helen 'Nellie' O'Neill
1928
- Honor Bound as Selma Ritchie
- A Girl in Every Port as Widow in San Pedro, Belize
- The Crimson City as Nadine Howells
- Land of the Silver Fox as Marie du Fronque
- The Branded Sombrero as Connie Marsh
- Alias Jimmy Valentine as Rose
1927
- The Wizard as Anne Webster
- The Brute as Jennifer Duan
- One-Round Hogan as Helen Davis
- White Pants Willie as Helen Charters
- The Bush Leaguer as Alice Hobbs
1926
- Summer Bachelors as Willowdean French
- Dancing Mothers as Birdie Courtney
1924
- Sandra as Mait Stanley