Leslie Brooks
Birthday
1922/07/13
Day of death
2011/07/01 (89 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
Also know as
Loraine Gettman, Lorraine Gettman
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.
Acting
(1944) Cover Girl
as Maurine Martin
(1948) Hollow Triumph
as Virginia Taylor
(1948) Blonde Ice
as Claire Cummings Hanneman
(1946) The Secret of the Whistler
as Kay Morrell
(1948) Romance on the High Seas
as Miss Medwick
(1945) Tonight and Every Night
as Angela
(1942) You Were Never Lovelier
as Cecy Acuña
(1947) The Corpse Came C.O.D.
as Peggy Holmes
(1946) The Man Who Dared
as Lorna Claibourne
(1941) Ziegfeld Girl
as Ziegfeld Girl (uncredited)
(1943) City Without Men
as Gwen
(1945) I Love a Bandleader
as Ann Stuart
(1942) Overland to Deadwood
as Linda Banning
(1971) How's Your Love Life?
as Dr. Maureen John
(1942) Underground Agent
as Ann Carter
(1941) Navy Blues
as Navy Blues Sextet Member (as Loraine Gettman)
(1942) Lucky Legs
as Jewel Perkins
(1942) The Playgirls
as Sexette Membee
(1947) Cigarette Girl
as Ellen WIlcox
(1942) The Talk of the Town
as Secretary (uncredited)
(1943) Two Señoritas from Chicago
as Lena Worth
(1944) Nine Girls
as Roberta Halloway
(1948) The Cobra Strikes
as Olga Kaminoff
(1941) You're in the Army Now
as Navy Blues Sextette Member
(1941) The Man Who Came to Dinner
as Hollywood Blonde (uncredited)
(1946) It's Great to Be Young
as Terry