Leslie Brooks
Actor · 1922 – 2011 · Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
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.
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Movie6.6DramaMusicDiscovery 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.
Ziegfeld Girl
1941 · 39 votes
Movie6.4MusicComedyA nightclub dancer makes it big in modeling, leaving her dancer boyfriend behind.
Cover Girl
1944 · 99 votes
Movie7.1RomanceComedyAn Argentine heiress thinks a penniless American dancer is her secret admirer.
You Were Never Lovelier
1942 · 60 votes
Movie7.3ComedyDramaHilarity 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.
The Talk of the Town
1942 · 133 votes
Movie7.0ComedyAn acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in indefinitely with a Midwestern family.
The Man Who Came to Dinner
1941 · 100 votes
Movie6.6ThrillerCrimePursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity—with unfortunate results.
Hollow Triumph
1948 · 56 votes
Movie6.7ComedyRomanceGeorgia 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.
Romance on the High Seas
1948 · 36 votes
Movie5.5MusicRomanceAn American girl falls for an RAF pilot while performing at a British music hall.
Tonight and Every Night
1945 · 21 votes
Movie5.8MysteryComedyOne 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.
Nine Girls
1944 · 4 votes
Movie4.4ComedyIncompetent door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesmen become enlisted without their knowledge.
You're in the Army Now
1941 · 7 votes
Movie3.8CrimeAdventureA 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.
The Man Who Dared
1946 · 5 votes
Movie7.0MusicComedyA young man and woman base their love on lies that eventually manage to come true.
Cigarette Girl
1947 · 1 votes
Movie5.7CrimeDramaA golddigging femme fatale leaves a trail of men behind her, rich and poor, alive and dead.
Blonde Ice
1948 · 41 votes
Movie6.5ComedyMysteryRival reporters (George Brent, Joan Blondell) investigate a Hollywood star (Adele Jergens) and the box she receives with a dead man inside.
The Corpse Came C.O.D.
1947 · 4 votes
Movie6.1CrimeDramaA deranged artist who may have murdered his wife is investigated by the Whistler.
The Secret of the Whistler
1946 · 18 votes
Movie4.8ComedyMusicOn a layover in Hawaii, two conniving Navy seamen borrow money to wager bets that their ship will win the upcoming gunnery practice trophy, having found out that the current champ has just transferred aboard their ship. What they haven't realized, however, is that the marksman's enlistment is up before the contest is supposed to take place.
Navy Blues
1941 · 4 votes
Movie9.0RomanceActionIn 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.
Underground Agent
1942 · 1 votes
- Movie9.0MusicComedy
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.
It's Great to Be Young
1946 · 1 votes
Movie9.0ComedyCrimeChorus 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.
Lucky Legs
1942 · 1 votes
- MovieMusic
Female musicians perform a handful of tunes.
The Playgirls
1942
Movie6.7ComedyThe 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.
Two Señoritas from Chicago
1943 · 3 votes
Movie4.7DramaJack 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.
How's Your Love Life?
1971 · 3 votes
Movie5.7CrimeDramaA 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.
City Without Men
1943 · 3 votes
Movie8.0MusicComedyA painter suffering from amnesia convinces himself that he's a famous bandleader and finds romance with a pretty singer. Comedy with music.
I Love a Bandleader
1945 · 1 votes