Ana Bertha Lepe (1933 - 2013)

Beauty Queen, Actress. An early participant in the Miss Universe Pageant, she is remembered as a longtime star of the Mexican big and small screens. Born Ana Bertha Lepe Jiminez, she had show business ambitions from a young age and made her 1952 silver screen bow in “La justicia del lobo”; that same year she […]

Tiffany Leong (1985 - 2015)

Malaysian Actress. Leong was a very prominent actress and television host in Malaysia. Before going into acting and television work, she was a model and beauty queen.  To get started in television, Leong joined Astro, a Malaysian pay television service, as a host.   She moved over to acting in 2006 by joining MediaCorp in […]

Queenie Leonard (1905 - 2002)

British Character Actress and Singer. She was born in London and died in West Los Angeles. She began her career on stage, and debuted on film in 1931. Among her films are “Ladies in Retirement” (1941), “The Uninvited” (1944), “And Then There Were None” (1945), “Cluny Brown” (1946), “Life With Father” (1947), “Thunder on the […]

Lu Leonard (1926 - 2004)

American Actress. She made over 45 film and television appearances between 1956 and 1995. Due to her rotund figure, Leonard was often cast as a love interest who often intimidated her husband or boyfriend. Her first major appearance was as the wife of Three Stooges member Larry Fine in the film Husbands Beware. Throughout the […]

Cristina Lemercier (1951 - 1996)

Actress, T.V. hostess. Born Cristina Noemí Perone, she is best remembered for her main role in the soap opera “Señorita Maestra” (1983). (bio by: 380W) Cause of death: Suicide

Marija Leiko (1887 - 1938)

Actress. A Latvian-born star of German stage and screen, she later fell victim to Stalinist repression. Leiko made her performing debut at Riga’s Apollo Theatre at age 19. In 1908 her lover, actor Janis Guter, was suspected of involvement in the murder of a policeman, and the couple fled to Austria via Denmark.  She studied […]

Vivien Mary Leigh (1913 - 1967)

Actress. After finishing her primary education she decided to pursue acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art when she was 18. For the next few years her career consisted of stage work and small film roles. In 1937 her first marriage with Leigh Holman was dissolved and she took up residence with actor Laurence […]

Janet Leigh (1927 - 2004)

Actress. Born Jeanette Helen Morrison, she was discovered when retired film star Norma Shearer saw her picture at a ski resort.  Norma recommended her to talent agent Lew Wasserman who got Janet a contract at MGM for $50 a week and who christened Jeanette with the stage name, Janet Leigh. She made her first movie, […]

Virginia B. Bronson Leiber (1885 - 1970)

American stage actress. She is buried next to her husband, actor Fritz Leiber. (bio by: A.J. Marik)  Family links:  Spouse:  Fritz Leiber (1882 – 1949)  Children:  Fritz Reuter Leiber (1910 – 1992)* *Calculated relationship

Eva LeGallienne (1899 - 1991)

Actress, Director, Producer, and Memoirist. Le Gallienne’s first professional stage appearance was at the age of 15, in Maurice Maeterlinck’s Monna Vanna in 1914. A year after being dissatisfied with the commerical she founded The Apprentice Group, a free school for actors. Poet May Sarton, a graduate of the school, became one of Le Gallienne’s […]

Virginia Lee Corbin (1911 - 1942)

Actress. Born Virginia LaVerne Corbin, was known as “The Dresden Doll of the Movies,” in the 1930s she was the most popular child star in the movies. Sister of Ruth Corbin, Virginia is well remembered in “Jack and the Beanstalk,” (1917) as ‘Princess Badr al-badr’ in “Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp,” as ‘Virginia Clark’ in […]

Joanna Lee (1931 - 2003)

Actress. She is best remembered fo her roles in the 1950s Sci-Fi films, “The Brain Eaters” (1959), as ‘Alice Summers,’ and “Plan 9 From Outer Space” (1959), as ‘Tanna.’ She also made guest appearances on the television shows, “Leave It To Beaver,” “On Trail,” “The 20th Century Fox Hour,’ “The Donna Reed Show,” and “Death […]

Eun-ju Lee (1980 - 2005)

Actress. Best remembered for her role as “Young-shin” in the Korean war drama “Taeguki” or National Flag in english. The film, released in 2004 was one of the highest-grossing films in the Korea’s history and made the rounds in the international circuit. Lee began her career as a model and scored her first major role […]

Auriol Lee (1880 - 1941)

Actress. She emigrated to America in the early 1900s and was a prolific stage performer and a playwright on Broadway. From 1903 to 1941, she appeared in numerous productions and also served as a stage director. Before her death she appeared in the films, “A Royal Divorce” (1938) and “Suspicion” (1941). (bio by: John “J-Cat” […]

Gretchen Lederer (1891 - 1955)

Actress. Born in Cologne, Germany, she was a leading lady of the silent film era appearing in over 80 films between 1912 and 1918. Her credits included “Hearts of Conflict” (1912), “The Violin Maker” (1915), “Lord John in New York” (1915), “The Grasp of Greed” (1916), “The Rescue” (1917) and “Wife or Country” (1918). Actor […]

Ginette Leclerc (1912 - 1992)

Actress. She began her film career in 1937. Most remembered in such films as “Le Corbeau,” “The Man From Nowhere,” “Cab Number 13,” “Baker’s Wife” and “Tropic of Cancer.” (bio by: MC)

Yvette Lebon (1910 - 2014)

Actress. A noted beauty of her day, she is remembered for her numerous French cinematic appearances during the 1930s and beyond as well as for her rather colorful private life. Born Simone Lebon, she studied art and trained as a dancer prior to her 1931 silver screen bow in “Left Bank”. Through the next few […]

Madeleine Lebeau (1923 - 2016)

Actress. Best remembered for playing ‘Yvonne’, ‘Rick’s’ (Humphrey Bogart) jilted lover in the classic picture “Casablanca” (1942). Born Marie Madeleine Berthe Lebeau, she began her film career in her native France during her teenage years and relocated to Hollywood, where she debut in the picture “Hold Back the Dawn” (1941). During the following two decades, […]

Zarah Leander (1907 - 1981)

Actress. Born Zarah Stina Hedberg in Karlstad, Sweden. Her career began in revues and operettas in her home country. Her first movies were also made in Sweden, but it was only after the German production “Premiere” (1937) that she managed her breakthrough. She became one of the greatest stars of German film arousing enthusiasm with […]

Milagros Leal (1902 - 1975)

Actress. Born in Madrid, she began her acting career as a child in the play “El Refajo Amarillo” and became one of the leading ladies of Spanish Theatre in such hits as “Champán”, “La Muralla”, “Divinas Palabras”, “Los Árboles Mueren de Pie”, and “La Celestina”.  She was married to actor Salvador Soler Marí, and they […]

Doris Leader Charge (1930 - 2001)

Lakota Sioux Linguist, Actress.  Doris Leader Charge was born on the Rosebud Reservation.  She translated the script for “Dances With Wolves” into Lakota and also appeared in the film as Pretty Shield, wife of Ten Bears.  A special guest at the Academy Awards, she translated screenwriter Michael Blake’s acceptance speech into the Lakota language.  She […]

Evelyn Lawton (1900 - 1996)

Celebrated British actress of stage and screen. Wife of actor Frank Lawton. (bio by: Kieran Smith)  Family links:  Spouse:  Frank Lawton (1904 – 1969)

Lillian Lawrence (1868 - 1926)

Actress. Mother of actress Ethel Grey Terry, Lawrence was a leading lady at the Castle Square Theatre in Boston. Lawrence appeared in 20 films. (bio by: TLS)  Family links:  Children:  Ethel Grey Terry (1882 – 1931)* *Calculated relationship

Jeanne Lawrence (1900 - 1945)

Actress. Born Jeanne Hirdler in Bricksville, Kansas, she began her career working in stage theatre before relocating to Hollywood in the 1930s. As a character actress, she appeared in the films “Men of the Night” (1934), “Air Hawks” (1935) and “Fifteen Maiden Lane” (1936). (bio by: John “J-Cat” Griffith)

Gertrude Lawrence (1898 - 1952)

Actress. Born Gertrud Alexandra Dagmar Lawrence Klasen in London, daughter of a struggling Danish singer and character actor who had taken the pseudonym of Arthur Lawrence and Alice, a middle-class English girl with frustrated theatrical aspirations. Gertrude made her stage début as a singing dancer in the pantomime ‘Babes in the Wood’ in Brixton in […]

Florence Lawrence (1890 - 1938)

Actress. Known as “The Biograph Girl,” and the first movie “star” known to the public by name. She made her stage debut at the age of three with a stock company run by her mother, Lotta Lawrence, and continued to appear billed as “Baby Florence, the Child Wonder.” After unsuccessfully trying for Broadway parts, she […]

Barbara Jo Lawrence (1930 - 2013)

Actress, Author. Lawrence, who appeared in 30 movies and 70 television shows from the late 1940s through the early 60s, moved with her mother to California at age 10, and was crowned “Little Miss Hollywood of 1942”. In her teens, she became a model and then an actress under contract to 20th Century Fox Studios, […]

Jacqueline Law (1966 - 2012)

Actress. A veteran of roughly 30 films, she shall be remembered for her 20 year career on the Hong Kong screen. Raised in her native city, she was working as a model when she was spotted and entered in the Miss Hong Kong Pageant; Jacqueline soon got her start in show business with the 1987 […]

Jean Laverty (1904 - 1973)

Actress. Best known for her role as Mary Malone in the 1928 film, “So This Is Love?”, directed by Frank Capra. A native of Blue Lake, California, she was born Gladys Louise Laverty, but used the alias of Jean Barry or Jean Bary, when appearing in motion pictures. Among Laverty’s other films are, “Bachelor’s Paradise” […]

Lucille LaVerne (1869 - 1945)

Actress. Born Lucille Mitchum in Nashville, Tennessee in 1869 (or possibly 1872), she began acting on stage as a child. She made her New York stage debut in 1888 while still a teen and seven years later had her own theatrical company which toured the United States and Europe performing before the crowned heads of […]