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Leona Roberts (July 26, 1879 – January 29, 1954) was an American stage and film actress.
Leona Roberts was born as Leona Celinda Doty in a small village in Illinois.
She made her debut on Broadway in 1926 and appeared there in about 40 productions between 1926 and 1945, mostly in supporting roles.
Roberts started her film career in 1926 in Poor Mrs.
Jones, produced by the United States Department of Agriculture, where she starred in the leading role.
She went to Hollywood in 1937 and played in over 40 films, mostly in motherly supporting roles.
She was probably best-known for her portrayal of "society gossip" Mrs.
Meade in Gone with the Wind (1939), together with Harry Davenport, who played Dr.
Meade.
Roberts also appeared with Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn in the screwball comedy Bringing Up Baby (1938) as the house servant Mrs.
Gogarty, as well in Of Human Hearts (1938) with James Stewart and The Blue Bird (1940) with Shirley Temple.
In 1941, she returned to Broadway, where she worked until the mid-1940s.
Subsequently, Roberts worked again in Hollywood and made a few last films there, including a small part in The Loves of Carmen (1948).
She made her last film in 1949.
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When a kindly priest is murdered...Boomerang! 1947
When a kindly priest is murdered while waiting at a street corner in a quiet Connecticut town, the citizens are horrified and demand action from the police. All of the witnesses identify John Waldron, a nervous out-of-towner, as the killer. District Attorney Henry Harvey is then put on the case and faces political opposition in his attempt to prove Waldron's innocence.
Bucolic lawyer John Wayne takes on...A Man Betrayed 1941
Bucolic lawyer John Wayne takes on big-city corruption in A Man Betrayed. He sets out to prove that an above-suspicion politician (Edward Ellis) is actually a crook. The price of integrity is sweet in this instance, since Wayne happens to be in love with the politician's daughter (Frances Dee).
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Peasant children Mytyl and Tyltyl are...The Blue Bird 1940
Peasant children Mytyl and Tyltyl are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the fairy Berylune. On their journey, they're accompanied by the anthropomorphized presences of a Dog, a Cat, Light, Fire, and Bread, among other entities.
Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic...Swanee River 1939
Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl, then is accused of sympathizing when the Civil War breaks out. Typical of 20th Century Fox biopics of the time, the film is more fictional than factual biography.
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia...Gone with the Wind 1939
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.
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Jed Marlowe is a brilliant scheming...The Spellbinder 1939
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Polly Parrish a clerk at Merlins...Bachelor Mother 1939
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When her brother is killed by...
Young lovers Jack and Sally are...Kentucky 1938
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Teddy Shaw a bored New York...Having Wonderful Time 1938
Teddy Shaw, a bored New York office girl, goes to a camp in the Catskill Mountains for rest and finds Chick Kirkland.
A shoplifter gets sentenced to a...
David Huxley is waiting to get...Bringing Up Baby 1938
David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of strange circumstances, he meets Susan Vance, and the duo have a series of misadventures which include a leopard called Baby.
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The spoiled hardpartying son of a...Border Cafe 1937
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