Leslie Brooks

Born: 1922-07-13 in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA

Died: 2011-07-01

Known For: 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.

Filmography

1971

How's Your Love Life? as Dr. Maureen John

1948

Blonde Ice as Claire Cummings Hanneman
Romance on the High Seas as Miss Medwick
Hollow Triumph as Virginia Taylor
The Cobra Strikes as Olga Kaminoff

1947

Cigarette Girl as Ellen WIlcox
The Corpse Came C.O.D. as Peggy Holmes

1946

It's Great to Be Young as Terry
The Man Who Dared as Lorna Claibourne
The Secret of the Whistler as Kay Morrell

1945

Tonight and Every Night as Angela
I Love a Bandleader as Ann Stuart

1944

Nine Girls as Roberta Halloway
Cover Girl as Maurine Martin

1943

City Without Men as Gwen
Two Señoritas from Chicago as Lena Worth

1942

You Were Never Lovelier as Cecy Acuña
The Playgirls as Sexette Membee
The Talk of the Town as Secretary (uncredited)
Lucky Legs as Jewel Perkins
Underground Agent as Ann Carter
Overland to Deadwood as Linda Banning

1941

Ziegfeld Girl as Ziegfeld Girl (uncredited)
The Man Who Came to Dinner as Hollywood Blonde (uncredited)
You're in the Army Now as Navy Blues Sextette Member
Navy Blues as Navy Blues Sextet Member (as Loraine Gettman)