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Leslie Brooks

Acting · Born July 13, 1922 · Lincoln, Nebraska, USA

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.

Movies with Leslie Brooks

• Hollow Triumph (1948) — Virginia Taylor
• Ziegfeld Girl (1941) — Ziegfeld Girl (uncredited)
• You Were Never Lovelier (1942) — Cecy Acuña
• Cover Girl (1944) — Maurine Martin
• Romance on the High Seas (1948) — Miss Medwick
• The Talk of the Town (1942) — Secretary (uncredited)
• The Man Who Came to Dinner (1941) — Hollywood Blonde (uncredited)
• City Without Men (1943) — Gwen
• Nine Girls (1944) — Roberta Halloway
• Tonight and Every Night (1945) — Angela
• Navy Blues (1941) — Navy Blues Sextet Member (as Loraine Gettman)
• The Corpse Came C.O.D. (1947) — Peggy Holmes