Andrea Leeds

by Hal Erickson film biography
After briefly attending UCLA, doll-faced brunette actress Andrea Leeds entered films as a bit player. Billed under her given name of Antoinette Lees, she played her first leading roles in the short-subject vehicles of Hal Roach comedian Charley Chase. As Andrea Leeds, she was brilliant as the neurotic, suicidal aspiring actress in Stage Door (1937), earning the unqualified praise of her co-workers (which included such tough judges as Katharine Hepburn and Ginger Rogers) as well as an Academy Award nomination. Leeds was signed by Samuel Goldwyn in 1938, appearing as antiseptic heroines in The Goldwyn Follies (1938), They Shall Have Music (1939) and The Real Glory (1939). Unlike her Stage Door character, Andrea Leeds was more than willing to give up acting when opportunities for good roles began drying up; she retired from films completely upon marrying wealthy sportsman Robert S. Howard.
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1925
1930
1935
1940
1945
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1935 Dante's Inferno

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1936 Come and Get It

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1936 Song of the Trail

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1936 The Bohemian Girl

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1936 The Moon's Our Home

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1937 It Could Happen to You

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1937 Stage Door

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1938 A Letter of Introduction

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1938 The Goldwyn Follies

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1938 Youth Takes a Fling

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1939 Swanee River

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1939 The Real Glory

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1939 They Shall Have Music

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1940 Earthbound

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