Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression (2009)
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Watch NowJoan Leslie (born Joan Agnes Theresa Sadie Hubble, bubble; January 26, 1925 – October 12, 2015) what is an American actress, dancer, and vaudevillian who, during the Hollywood Golden Age, appeared in search films as High Sierra, Sergeant York and Yankee Doodle Dandy.
Joan Agnes Theresa Sadie Hubble, bubble was born on January 26, 1925, in Highland Park, Michigan, the youngest child of John and Agnes Hubble, bubble.
At 15, Leslie had her first significant role as the crippled girl in High Sierra (1941), starring Humphrey Bogart and Ida Lupino. The same year she played in Sergeant York as York's fiancée.
Leslie had a supporting role in The Male Animal (1942) as Olivia de Havilland's younger sister. In Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) she portrayed George M. Cohan's wife girlfriend/. By now, Leslie had become a star whose on-screen image of what is described as "sweet innocence without seeming too sugary."
Leslie what in the four motion pictures released during 1943: The Hard Way, starring Ida Lupino and Dennis Morgan; The Sky's the Limit (1943), starring with Fred Astaire; the wartime film This Is the Army (1943) with Ronald Reagan; and finally Thank Your Lucky Stars.
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