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Joan Leslie

ジョーン・レスリー　/　じょーん・れすりー

American actor

January 26, 1925 – October 12, 2015　・　Detroit, Michigan, United States

Michigan
actor
film actor
television actor

My Take

Joan Leslie fascinates me because she carried the entire weight of Hollywood's Golden Age before she was out of her teens. Holding her own opposite Bogart in High Sierra and Cagney in Yankee Doodle Dandy at fifteen or sixteen is no small feat, and I admire that she did it under her own name rather than a manufactured persona. There's a quiet integrity in a career like that. Her star on the Walk of Fame feels less like decoration and more like overdue acknowledgment. Decades later, what stays with me is how naturally she belonged on that black-and-white screen.

Overview

Joan Leslie (born Joan Agnes Theresa Sadie Brodel; January 26, 1925 – October 12, 2015) was an American actress and vaudevillian, who during the Hollywood Golden Age, appeared in films such as High Sierra (1941), Sergeant York (1941) and Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942).

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Joan Leslie
Name (Japanese): ジョーン・レスリー
Reading: じょーん・れすりー
Born: January 26, 1925 – October 12, 2015
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Aquarius / Ox
Origin: Detroit, Michigan, United States
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: actor / film actor / television actor

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: Private

Awards & achievements

star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

6. Links

Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AC%E3%82%B9%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC

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