Actor
Lila Leeds
January 28, 1928 · Dodge City, Kansas, USA
Lila Leeds (born Lila Lee Wilkinson, January 28, 1928 – September 15, 1999) was an American film actress. She signed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and began appearing in small roles in the Red Skelton film The Show-Off (1946); Lady in the Lake (1947), based on a Raymond Chandler story; and in the Lana Turner vehicle Green Dolphin Street. She had a small part in So You Want to Be a Detective, which was part of the Joe McDoakes series of comedy shorts, the film being a reworking of the subjective camera style used in Lady in the Lake, in which Leeds had previously appeared.
Leeds was producer Harold Hecht's top choice to star in Kiss the Blood Off My Hands, the first film by Hecht and co-star Burt Lancaster's production company Norma Productions. Leeds was ultimately replaced by Joan Fontaine, who was already under contract with the movie's financer and distributor Universal-International Pictures.
Often works with
Barbara Bates
3 titles together
The House Across the Street, April Showers, Always Together
Leon Ames
2 titles together
Lady in the Lake, The Show-Off
Wheaton Chambers
2 titles together
Lady in the Lake, Always Together
Irving Bacon
2 titles together
Moonrise, The House Across the Street
Charles Lane
2 titles together
Moonrise, The House Across the Street
George O'Hanlon
2 titles together
So You Want to Be a Detective, So You Want to Be a Gambler
Full filmography · 11
The House Across the Street
as Billie Martin (uncredited)
1949
Wild Weed
as Anne Lester
1949
Moonrise
as Julie
19486.3
So You Want to Be a Detective
as Veronica Vacuum (uncredited)
19486.8
April Showers
as Society Girl (uncredited)
1948
So You Want to Be a Gambler
as Blonde at Dice Table (uncredited)
1948
Always Together
as Blonde (uncredited)
1947
Green Dolphin Street
as Eurasian Girl (uncredited)
19476.3
Lady in the Lake
as Receptionist
19466.1I Love My Husband, But!
as Blonde Trying on Hat (uncredited)
1946
The Show-Off
as Flo
1946