Leslie Brooks

Born: 1922-07-13

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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The Talk of the Town

as Secretary (uncredited)
Released: 1942-08-20

Hilarity ensues when a falsely accused fugitive from justice hides at the house of his childhood...

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The Man Who Came to Dinner

as Hollywood Blonde (uncredited)
Released: 1941-12-24

An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in indefinitely with a...

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You Were Never Lovelier

as Cecy Acuña
Released: 1942-11-19

An Argentine heiress thinks a penniless American dancer is her secret admirer.

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Hollow Triumph

as Virginia Taylor
Released: 1948-08-18

Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity—with unfortunate...

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Cover Girl

as Maurine, Rusty's blonde friend / rival
Released: 1944-03-22

A nightclub dancer makes it big in modeling, leaving her dancer boyfriend behind.

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Ziegfeld Girl

as Ziegfeld Girl (uncredited)
Released: 1941-04-25

Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three...

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Romance on the High Seas

as Miss Medwick
Released: 1948-06-25

Georgia Garrett is sent by jealous wife Elvira Kent on an ocean cruise to masquerade as herself...

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The Secret of the Whistler

as Kay Morrell
Released: 1946-11-07

A deranged artist who may have murdered his wife is investigated by the Whistler.

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Tonight and Every Night

as Angela
Released: 1945-01-09

An American girl falls for an RAF pilot while performing at a British music hall.

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Blonde Ice

as Claire Cummings Hanneman
Released: 1948-07-24

A golddigging femme fatale leaves a trail of men behind her, rich and poor, alive and dead.

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Nine Girls

as Roberta Halloway
Released: 1944-02-17

One of the members of a sorority is found murdered. Although the police are called in to...

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The Corpse Came C.O.D.

as Peggy Holmes
Released: 1947-06-02

Rival reporters (George Brent, Joan Blondell) investigate a Hollywood star (Adele Jergens) and...

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Underground Agent

as Ann Carter
Released: 1942-12-03

In this espionage caper, a government spy must keep enemy agents from spying upon a defense...

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Lucky Legs

as Jewel Perkins
Released: 1942-10-01

Chorus girl Gloria Carroll inherits one million dollars from Broadway playboy Herbert Dinwiddle....

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Overland to Deadwood

as Linda Banning
Released: 1942-09-25

Cash Quinlan, owner of the Hauling Company, is the leader behind a gang of raiders who have been...

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The Cobra Strikes

as Olga Kaminoff
Released: 1948-04-24

A newspaper reporter investigates the near-fatal shooting of a medical scientist.

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Two Señoritas from Chicago

as Lena Worth
Released: 1943-06-10

The Two Senoritas from Chicago are Gloria and Maria. When their goofy pal Daisy Baker passes off...

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Navy Blues

as Navy Blues Sextet Member (as Loraine Gettman)
Released: 1941-09-13

On a layover in Hawaii two conniving Navy seamen borrow money to lay down bets that their ship...

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The Man Who Dared

as Lorna Claibourne
Released: 1946-05-30

A crusading reporter plans his own arrest and conviction for first degree murder, trying to show...

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You're in the Army Now

as Navy Blues Sextette Member
Released: 1941-12-25

Incompetent door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesmen become enlisted without their knowledge.

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City Without Men

as Gwen
Released: 1943-01-14

A young woman's husband has been imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. In order to be near...

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How's Your Love Life?

as Dr. Maureen John
Released: 1971-08-13

Jack Romanti runs a theater company that offers sexual therapy as well as a break in the movie...

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Cigarette Girl

as Ellen WIlcox
Released: 1947-02-13

A young man and woman base their love on lies that eventually manage to come true.

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I Love a Bandleader

as Ann Stuart
Released: 1945-09-13

A painter suffering from amnesia convinces himself that he's a famous bandleader and finds...

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