Biography: Joan Leslie |
A stage actress from the age of 3, Joan Leslie toured vaudeville in a singing act with her two sisters. At ten, Leslie was an established advertising model. She came to Hollywood in 1936, making her screen debut in Camille under her given name of... more
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The Revolt of Mamie Stover (1956)
Cast: Agnes Moorehead Raoul Walsh Jane Russell
Tags: Romantic Drama Drama Romance
Length: 92min
Set in the early '40s and directed by Raoul Walsh, The Revolt of Mamie Stover stars Jane Russell as Mamie, a San Francisco prostitute who is run out of town just as the second world war has begun to intensify. Mamie (Russell) settles down in Hawaii,...
Cast: Pat O'Brien Jack Elam
Length: 103min
Based on a novel by Gwen Bristow, Jubilee Trail is a sprawling, all-star western from the Republic Studio mills. Despite is vaunted budget, the plot is strictly B-picture material. Ambitious California landowner Charles Hale (Ray Middleton) hopes to...
Tags: Adventure Drama Adventure Drama
Length: 90min
This "modern" western stars Rod Cameron as opportunistic Korean war veteran Tully Gibbs. Posing as a friend of the late son of mine owner Kevin Russel (Chill Wills), Tully intends to work the mine for all it's worth and then pull out. By and by, Tully...
Cast: Forrest Tucker Fred Allen
Length: 90min
In this war drama, set during the Korean War, an Air Force nurse gets involved in a love triangle on the front lines. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Cast: James Arness Ward Bond Sterling Hayden Joan Leslie Charles Marquis Warren
Tags: Prison Film Crime Drama Drama
Length: 87min
This western stars Sterling Hayden as a man who innocently tends to the needs of a mysterious stranger. When it turns out that the stranger was part of a notorious gang of mercenaries, Hayden is condemned as a conspirator and sent to Hellgate Prison...
Cast: Joan Fontaine Nicholas Ray
Length: 93min
One of the most oft-revived of the pre-Technicolor Nicholas Ray efforts, Born to Be Bad offers us the spectacle of Joan Fontaine portraying a character described as "a cross between Lucrezia Borgia and Peg O' My Heart". For the benefit of her wealthy...
Cast: Randolph Scott
Tags: Action Western Traditional Western
Length: 87min
Rancher Randolph Scott rides right into a romantic triangle in this moody western. He is forced to stand by as his mercenary girl friend (Joan Leslie) is lured away by a wealthy neighboring rancher (Alexander Knox). When the neighbor is killed, Scott...
The Woman They Almost Lynched (1953)
Cast: Virginia Christine
Length: 90min
All suspense in The Woman They Almost Lynched would seem to be dissipated by title, but director Allan Dwan holds the viewers spellbound throughout. Part of the tension arises from fact that there are two leading female characters: Kate Quantrill...
The Toughest Man in Arizona (1952)
Cast: Edgar Buchanan
Length: 95min
In his second and last Western for Republic Pictures, former bandleader Vaughn Monroe plays a marshal returning to Tombstone with a wanted gun-runner (Victor Jory) when he stumbles upon a woman (Joan Leslie) and a couple of children, apparently the...
The Skipper Surprised His Wife (1950)
Cast: Robert Walker
Tags: Comedy
Length: 85min
Vincente Minnelli was slated to direct The Skipper Surprised His Wife, but Elliot Nugent stepped in when Minnelli was transferred to another MGM comedy, Father of the Bride. The titular skipper, Cmdr. William Lattimer, is played by Robert Walker,...
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