LESLIE BROOKS - 1940s Leading Lady

Actress Leslie Brooks, who appeared in numerous films in the 1940s, died in Sherman Oaks, California, on July 1, 2011. She was 88. She was born Virginia Leslie Gettman in Lincoln, Nebraska, on July 13, 1922.  She began her career in the films in the early 1940s, with small roles in “Ziegfeld Girl” (1941), “The Body Disappears” (1941), “The Man Who Came to Dinner” (1942), and “Yankee Doodle Dandy" (1942), “The Talk of the Town” (1942).  She graduated to more substantial roles playing second leads and femme fatales in the “You Were Never Lovelier” (1942), “Underground Agent” (1942), “The Man Who Dared” (1946), “The Secret of The Whistler” (1946), “The Corpse Came C.O.D.” (1947), and “The Cobra Strikes” (1948) before retiring from the screen.