Leslie Brooks

Personal Info

Birthday

July 13, 1922

Day of Death

2011-07-01

(88 years old)

Place of Birth

Lincoln, Nebraska, USA

Also Known As

Loraine Gettman

Lorraine Gettman

Leslie Brooks

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.

Known For

Cover Girl

The Talk of the Town

City Without Men

The Man Who Came to Dinner

Hollow Triumph

Ziegfeld Girl

Romance on the High Seas

You Were Never Lovelier

Filmography

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