Hollywood golden age ingénue Joan Leslie dies aged 90 in Los Angeles

UK Daily Mail ^ | 10/15/2015 | CHRISTINE RENDON

[DFG]

Joan Leslie, whose expressive almond eyes and innocent beauty made her one of the most popular film ingénues of the 1930s and 40s, has died at the age of 90. She died in Los Angeles on Monday, her family announced in an obituary. After signing with Warner Bros. at the age of 15, her first major role was in High Sierra as the disabled Velma opposite Humphrey Bogart and Ida Lupino.

[greene66]

Ah, darn. I always liked her.

Just re-watched her starring role in “The Woman They Almost Lynched” (1953) a few weeks ago. First time I’d seen it in thirty years.

[AnalogReigns]

[Repeal The 17th]

She was HUGE!

[patriot08]

Rest in peace, Joan.

I’m a fan of old, classic movies.
Our classic stars are almost all gone now.
The stars of today can’t begin to hold a candle to them.

[Bullish]

You should probably learn the < img width= > tag to avoid that.

[PghBaldy]

Joe Gillis: You’re Norma Desmond. You used to be in silent pictures. You used to be big.

Norma Desmond: I *am* big. It’s the *pictures* that got small.

[SteveinSATX]

Wow, I didn’t realize she was still around this long. I’ll never forget her as the cutie pie in personal favorite Sergeant York.

Rip Joan

[himno hero]

Me tinks he needs to practice on another image... maybe he needs to learn the ?

[MEG33]

In order to fit the page, you can specify width ..height automatically adjusts.

[PGalt]

Condolences to family and friends of Joan Leslie.

[Fungi]

Bingo! In class, acting ability, humility, reverence to God, and in so much else, these actors defined the medium. Current “actors” are absorbed with themselves and their leftist crap, have no use for anything beyond their narcissism and are just ignorant beyond belief.

[luvbach1]

She came across as a doll, a sweet doll.RIP beautiful lady.

[luvbach1]

That’s the biggest photo I’ve ever seen on the net.

[LibWhacker]

Sergeant York (1941) Official Trailer (with a couple of Joan Leslie scenes)

[Bullish]

It’s the same image. I copied it from his and shrunk it with a simple little width=300 tag.

EXAMPLE:

< img width=300 src=http://www.doctormacro.com/Images/Leslie,%20Joan/Annex/Annex%20-%20Leslie,%20Joan_03.jpg >

Take out the spaces before and after the < > and Voila’. use any size you want just change the 300 to larger or smaller.

Never mind if you already knew this himmo.

[G Larry]

Hey!

I liked the life size just fine!

27” screen!

[UnwashedPeasant]

Notable parts:

• High Sierra (1941) with Humphrey Bogart and Ida Lupino. She played the crippled girl Velma.
• Sergeant York (1941), with Gary Cooper. She was his fiance.
• Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) with James Cagney. She played his wife Mary.
• This Is the Army (1943) with Ronald Reagan.
• Hollywood Canteen (1944). Like most of the other Hollywood stars appearing in the film, she played herself, but the fictionalized plot had her falling in love with a soldier. In real life, she was a regular volunteer at the Hollywood Canteen, where she danced with servicemen and granted hundreds of autographs.

Looks like she was a screen sweetheart during the war.

Then she went noir.

[greene66]

“Repeat Performance” was a sort of fantasy/noir, in which a gal finds herself getting to re-live the past year of her life over again. Interesting little flick. I think it was also Richard Basehart’s film debut.

[RobbyS]

I have read that Gary Cooper was embarrassed by having a co-star so young as she.but that she was the pick of Alvin York himself.