Leslie Brooks

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

0.007

Gender

Female

Birthday

13-Jul-1922

Age

(103 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.


Credits

How's Your Love Life? How's Your Love Life? (1971) Character: Dr. Maureen John
Jack Romanti runs a theater company that offers sexual therapy as well as a break in the movie business to insecure and inexperienced young new talents. This boils down to them being pimped out to sponsors but they all benefit from it.
The Playgirls The Playgirls (1942) Character: Sexette Membee
Female musicians perform a handful of tunes.
I Love a Bandleader I Love a Bandleader (1945) Character: Ann Stuart
A painter suffering from amnesia convinces himself that he's a famous bandleader and finds romance with a pretty singer. Comedy with music.
It's Great to Be Young It's Great to Be Young (1946) Character: Terry
Ricky Malone, Spud Winters and some other returning G.I.'s are trying to break into show business by the old summer resort. Terry, a runaway daughter of a big producer who is trying to stifle her show-biz career, hires on as the (dubbed) singer.
You Were Never Lovelier You Were Never Lovelier (1942) Character: Cecy Acuña
An Argentine heiress thinks a penniless American dancer is her secret admirer.
City Without Men City Without Men (1943) Character: Gwen
A young woman's husband has been imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. In order to be near him to try to help him get his sentence overturned, she moves into a boardinghouse near the prison whose residents are the wives of inmates.
Blonde Ice Blonde Ice (1948) Character: Claire Cummings Hanneman
A golddigging femme fatale leaves a trail of men behind her, rich and poor, alive and dead.
Tonight and Every Night Tonight and Every Night (1945) Character: Angela
An American girl falls for an RAF pilot while performing at a British music hall.
Romance on the High Seas Romance on the High Seas (1948) Character: Miss Medwick
Georgia Garrett is sent by jealous wife Elvira Kent on an ocean cruise to masquerade as herself while she secretly stays home to catch her husband cheating. Meanwhile equally suspicious husband Michael Kent has sent a private eye on the same cruise to catch his wife cheating. Love and confusion ensues along with plenty of musical numbers.
The Man Who Came to Dinner The Man Who Came to Dinner (1941) Character: Hollywood Blonde (uncredited)
An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in indefinitely with a Midwestern family.
The Corpse Came C.O.D. The Corpse Came C.O.D. (1947) Character: Peggy Holmes
Rival reporters (George Brent, Joan Blondell) investigate a Hollywood star (Adele Jergens) and the box she receives with a dead man inside.
Ziegfeld Girl Ziegfeld Girl (1941) Character: Ziegfeld Girl (uncredited)
Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on Broadway: Susan, the singer who must leave behind her ageing vaudevillian father; vulnerable Sheila, the working girl pursued both by a millionaire and by her loyal boyfriend from Flatbush; and the mysterious European beauty Sandra, whose concert violinist husband cannot endure the thought of their escaping from poverty by promenading her glamor in skimpy costumes.
The Talk of the Town The Talk of the Town (1942) Character: Secretary (uncredited)
Hilarity ensues when a falsely accused fugitive from justice hides at the house of his childhood friend, which she has recently rented to a high-principled law teacher.
Lucky Legs Lucky Legs (1942) Character: Jewel Perkins
Chorus girl Gloria Carroll inherits one million dollars from Broadway playboy Herbert Dinwiddle. Producer Ned McLane persuades her to advance him the money on a production called "Lucky Legs" that will star her. Unfortunately, the money has "made the rounds" prior to reaching Gloria and several less-than-scrupulous characters set out to separate Gloria from her inheritance.
Overland to Deadwood Overland to Deadwood (1942) Character: Linda Banning
Cash Quinlan, owner of the Hauling Company, is the leader behind a gang of raiders who have been robbing stagecoaches between Mesquite and Deadwood. He hopes by doing so to drive his competitors out of business so that he can get the railroad franchise for himself.....
Cigarette Girl Cigarette Girl (1947) Character: Ellen WIlcox
A young man and woman base their love on lies that eventually manage to come true.
Nine Girls Nine Girls (1944) Character: Roberta Halloway
One of the members of a sorority is found murdered. Although the police are called in to investigate, some of the girls decide to do some sleuthing on their own to unmask the killer.
The Secret of the Whistler The Secret of the Whistler (1946) Character: Kay Morrell
A deranged artist who may have murdered his wife is investigated by the Whistler.
You're in the Army Now You're in the Army Now (1941) Character: Navy Blues Sextette Member
Incompetent door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesmen become enlisted without their knowledge.
The Man Who Dared The Man Who Dared (1946) Character: Lorna Claibourne
A crusading reporter plans his own arrest and conviction for first degree murder, trying to show that the death sentence should be outlawed when based on circumstantial evidence alone, but his plan goes awry.
Underground Agent Underground Agent (1942) Character: Ann Carter
In this espionage caper, a government spy must keep enemy agents from spying upon a defense plant. His work is made easier by his newest invention, a word scrambler which makes it difficult for the enemy agent.
The Cobra Strikes The Cobra Strikes (1948) Character: Olga Kaminoff
A newspaper reporter investigates the near-fatal shooting of a medical scientist.
Hollow Triumph Hollow Triumph (1948) Character: Virginia Taylor
Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity—with unfortunate results.
Navy Blues Navy Blues (1941) Character: Navy Blues Sextet Member (as Loraine Gettman)
On a layover in Hawaii two conniving Navy seamen borrow money to lay down bets that their ship will win the upcoming gunnery practice trophy, having found out that the current gunnery champ has just transferred aboard their ship. What they haven't learned, however, is that the marksman's enlistment is up before the contest is supposed to take place.
Two Señoritas from Chicago Two Señoritas from Chicago (1943) Character: Lena Worth
The Two Senoritas from Chicago are Gloria and Maria. When their goofy pal Daisy Baker passes off a discarded Portuguese play manuscript as her own, producer Rupert Shannon agrees to bankroll the production. With stars in their eyes, Gloria and Maria pretend to be a pair of Portuguese musical comedy stars, thereby winning parts in the new production. The fun begins when the play's original authors sell the same manuscript to a rival producer.
Cover Girl Cover Girl (1944) Character: Maurine Martin
A nightclub dancer makes it big in modeling, leaving her dancer boyfriend behind.



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