Actor
Andrea Leeds
August 18, 1914 · Butte, Montana, USA
Andrea Leeds (August 18, 1914 – May 21, 1984) was an American film actress. A popular supporting player of the late 1930s, Leeds was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Stage Door (1937). She was progressing to leading roles, when she retired from acting following her marriage in 1939, and was later a successful horse breeder.
She began her film career in 1933 playing bit parts and using her given name. As Andrea Leeds she played her first substantial role in the film Come and Get It (1936) and achieved another success with her next film It Could Happen to You! (1937).
Notable work
Often works with
Russell Hicks
4 titles together
The Real Glory, Dante's Inferno, Earthbound
Adolphe Menjou
3 titles together
Stage Door, The Goldwyn Follies, Letter of Introduction
Joel McCrea
3 titles together
Come and Get It, They Shall Have Music, Youth Takes a Fling
Gail Patrick
2 titles together
My Man Godfrey, Stage Door
Bess Flowers
2 titles together
My Man Godfrey, Forgotten Faces
Franklin Pangborn
2 titles together
My Man Godfrey, Stage Door
Full filmography · 18
Earthbound
as Ellen Besborough
1940
Swanee River
as Jane McDowell Foster
1939
The Real Glory
as Linda Hartley
19396.3
They Shall Have Music
as Ann Lawson
1939
Youth Takes a Fling
as Helen Brown
1938
Letter of Introduction
as Kay Martin
1938
The Goldwyn Follies
as Hazel Dawes
1938
Stage Door
as Kay Hamilton
19377.1
It Could Happen to You
as Laura Compton
1937
Come and Get It
as Evvie Glasgow
19366.8
My Man Godfrey
as Socialite at Scavenger Hunt (uncredited)
19367.6
Forgotten Faces
as Salesgirl
1936