The world film encyclopedia (1933)
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(LAY-LEE) Biographies of the Players
screen version of this play that he made iiis film debut in 1930.
Also Played In : Birds of Prey (A.R.P.), The Outsider (Cinema House), The Skin Game (B.I. P.), Michael and Mary (Gains), After Office Hours (B.I. P.), Cavalcade (Fox).
LAYE, Evelyn. B. London, July 10,
1900. Fair hair, blue eyes. Ht.
5 ft. 5 in. Ed. Folkestone College ;
Brighton. M. Sonnie Hale ; div.
A favourite on the London stage for many years. Made her screen debut with Henry Edwards in The Luck of the Navy (Graham Wilcox, 1927), and later followed this up with tremendous success in One Heavenly Night (U.A., 1930), her first American picture.
LEASE, Rex. B. Central City, West Virginia, Feb. 11, 1903. Brown hair, green eyes. Ht. 5 ft. 10 in. Ed. Columbus, Ohio.
Studied for the ministry at Delaware, Ohio ; also took up journalism. Seized with a desire for acting. Went to Hollywood, where he started work as an extra. Screen debut, A Woman Who Sinned (Fox, 1924).
Also Played in : Moulders of Men (Radio), The Law of the Range (M.G.M.), The Younger Generation (Col), Troopers Three (Tiffany), Sunny Skies (Tiffany), Hot Curves (Tiffany), So This is Mexico, Why Marry ? (Pathe), Two Sisters (Rayart), When Dreams Come True (Rayart), Girls Who Dare (Trinity), Chinatown After Dark (Mayfair), Monster Walks (Mayfair), Cannonhall Express (W.W.), Is There Justice? (Gau), In Old Cheyenne (W.W.), The Lone Trail (Webb), Pretty Ankles (Like).
LEBEDEFF, Ivan. B. Uspolial, Lithuania, June 18, 1899. Black hair, dark eyes Ht. G ft. I in. Wt. 10 St. 8 lb. Ed. High School ; University of St. Petersburg ; Military Academy, St. Petersburg.
At one time an officer in the Tsar's Army, became after the revolution a film actor in Germany, making his film debut in a character part in King Frederick (U.F.A., 1922).
Also Played in : Lucky Death (Alcatros, French), The Soul of an Artist (Cine-France), Six Hundred Thousand francs per Month (Cine-France), The Charming Prince (Cine-France), Burned Fingers {Pathe), Sorrows of Satan (Para), The Loves of Sunya (U.A.), The Angel of Broadway (Path6), Forbidden Woman (Pathe), Let 'Er Go, Gallagher (Path^).
Sin Toivn (Pathe), Walking Back (Pathe), The Veiled Woman (Fox), The One Woman Idea (Radio), They Had to See Paris (Fox), Street Girl (Radio), The Cttckoos (Radio), The Midnight Mystery (Radio), The Coitspiracy (Radio), Bachelor Apartment (Radio), The Lady Refuses (Radio), The Gay Diplomat (Radio), Deceit (Allied).
LEDERER, Francis. B. Czecho-Slovaka.
1906. Ht. 5 ft. II in.
A stage actor who won recognition in the London play A utumn Crocus, and was later signed by Basil Dean to make pictures at the A.R.P. Studios, Ealing.
Played in : Nights are Made for Love (Radio).
LEE, Dorothy. Real name, Marjorie
Millsap. B. Los Angeles, Cal., May 23,
191X. Light brown hair, dark brown
eyes. Ht. 5 ft. i in. Wt. 6 st. 11 lb.
Ed. Virgil Junior High School ; Los
Angeles Coaching School. ]\L (i)
Robert Booth ; (2) James Fidler ; div.
Owes her popularity to the success of
the Wheeler and Woolsey comedies.
Before this had short experience of the
stage. Film debut. Syncopation (Radio,
1929).
Also Played in : Rio Rita (Radio), Dixiana (Radio), Half Shot at Sunrise (Radio), Hook, Line and Sinker (Radio), The Cuckoos (Radio), Laugh and Get Rich (Radio), Too Many Cooks (Radio), Cracked Nuts (Radio), Peach 0' Reno (Radio), Caught Plastered (Radio), Local Boy Makes Good (F.N.), Girl Crazy (Radio).
LEE, Lila. Real name, Augusta Appel.
B. New York City, July 25, 1903.
Black hair, hazel eyes. Ht. 5 ft. 5^ in.
Wt. 8 St. 6 lb. Ed. private tutors.
M. James Kirkwood 1923 ; div.
Started her stage career as a child, and for ten years was known on the vaudeville stage as " Cuddles." Made her screen debut in The Cruise of the Make Believe (Para, 1918).
Also Played in : Those Who Dance (F.N.), Blood and Sand (Para), New Klondyke (Para), One Increasing Purpose (Fox), Million Dollar Mystery (Rayart), Yoti Can't Beat the Law (Rayart), Adorable Cheat (Chesterfield), United States Smith (Gotham), Top Sergeant Mulligan, (Anchor), Just Married (Para), Black Butterflies, Thunder God (Anchor), Bit of Heaven (Express), Man in Hobbles (Tiffany), Queen of Night Clubs (Warner), Little Wild Cat (Warner), Black Pearl,