
Birthday:
07-13-1922
Deathday:
07-01-2011 (88 years)
Birthplace:
Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
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.
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Cover Girl
Act like Maurine
event1944 star_border 6.4
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A nightclub dancer makes it big in modeling, leaving her dancer boyfriend behind.
Hollow Triumph
Act like Virginia Taylor
event1948 star_border 6.5
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Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity—with unfortunate results.
Blonde Ice
Act like Claire Cummings Hanneman
event1948 star_border 5.7
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A golddigging femme fatale leaves a trail of men behind her, rich and poor, alive and dead.
The Secret of the Whistler
Act like Kay Morrell
event1946 star_border 5.9
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A deranged artist who may have murdered his wife is investigated by the Whistler.
Romance on the High Seas
Act like Miss Medwick
event1948 star_border 6.7
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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.
Tonight and Every Night
Act like Angela
event1945 star_border 5.2
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An American girl falls for an RAF pilot while performing at a British music hall.
You Were Never Lovelier
Act like Cecy Acuña
event1942 star_border 7.1
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An Argentine heiress thinks a penniless American dancer is her secret admirer.
The Corpse Came C.O.D.
Act like Peggy Holmes
event1947 star_border 5.7
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Rival reporters (George Brent, Joan Blondell) investigate a Hollywood star (Adele Jergens) and the box she receives with a dead man inside.
The Man Who Dared
Act like Lorna Claibourne
event1946 star_border 3.7
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A crusading reporter plans his own arrest and conviction for first degree murder, trying to show that the death sentence should be outlawed when based on circumstantial evidence alone, but his plan goes awry.
Ziegfeld Girl
Act like Ziegfeld Girl (uncredited)
event1941 star_border 6.5
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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.
City Without Men
Act like Gwen
event1943 star_border 5
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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.
I Love a Bandleader
Act like Ann Stuart
event1945
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A painter suffering from amnesia convinces himself that he's a famous bandleader and finds romance with a pretty singer. Comedy with music.
Overland to Deadwood
Act like Linda Banning
event1942
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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.....
How's Your Love Life?
Act like Dr. Maureen John
event1971 star_border 2
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Jack Romanti runs a theater company that offers sexual therapy as well as a break in the movie business to insecure and inexperienced young new talents. This boils down to them being pimped out to sponsors but they all benefit from it.
Underground Agent
Act like Ann Carter
event1942
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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.
Navy Blues
Act like Navy Blues Sextet Member (as Loraine Gettman)
event1941 star_border 4
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On a layover in Hawaii two conniving Navy seamen borrow money to lay down bets that their ship will win the upcoming gunnery practice trophy, having found out that the current gunnery champ has just transferred aboard their ship. What they haven't learned, however, is that the marksman's enlistment is up before the contest is supposed to take place.
Lucky Legs
Act like Jewel Perkins
event1942
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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.
The Playgirls
Act like Sexette Membee
event1942
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Female musicians perform a handful of tunes.
Cigarette Girl
Act like Ellen WIlcox
event1947
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A young man and woman base their love on lies that eventually manage to come true.
The Talk of the Town
Act like Secretary (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 7.3
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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.
Two Señoritas from Chicago
Act like Lena Worth
event1943 star_border 6
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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.
Nine Girls
Act like Roberta Halloway
event1944 star_border 5.3
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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.
The Cobra Strikes
Act like Olga Kaminoff
event1948 star_border 5
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A newspaper reporter investigates the near-fatal shooting of a medical scientist.
You're in the Army Now
Act like Navy Blues Sextette Member
event1941 star_border 3.6
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Incompetent door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesmen become enlisted without their knowledge.
The Man Who Came to Dinner
Act like Hollywood Blonde (uncredited)
event1941 star_border 6.9
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An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in indefinitely with a Midwestern family.
It's Great to Be Young
Act like Terry
event1946
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Ricky Malone, Spud Winters and some other returning G.I.'s are trying to break into show business by the old summer resort. Terry, a runaway daughter of a big producer who is trying to stifle her show-biz career, hires on as the (dubbed) singer.
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