Leona Roberts

Leona Roberts

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.

  • Title: Leona Roberts
  • Popularity: 1.324
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1879-07-25
  • Place of Birth: Mills Township, Bond County, Illinois, USA
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  • Also Known As: Leona Celinda Doty
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Leona Roberts Movies

  • 1938
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    Bringing Up Baby

    Bringing Up Baby

    7.532 1938 HD

    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...

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  • 1939
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    Gone with the Wind

    Gone with the Wind

    7.939 1939 HD

    The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and...

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    Blondie Plays Cupid

    Blondie Plays Cupid

    6.7 1940 HD

    The Bumstead family is off to see relatives in the country when Blondie runs into Charlie and Millie, an eloping couple needing her help.

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    This Marriage Business

    This Marriage Business

    4.8 1938 HD

    A cocky reporter turns a small town marriage license clerk into a media celebrity.

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  • 1941
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    A Man Betrayed

    A Man Betrayed

    5.5 1941 HD

    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...

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  • 1946
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    The Madonna's Secret

    The Madonna's Secret

    5.9 1946 HD

    This drama is an updated version of Ulmer's 1944 film Bluebeard. It is set in New York and follows the exploits of an eccentric Parisian painter who...

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    Having Wonderful Time

    Having Wonderful Time

    4.9 1938 HD

    Teddy Shaw, a bored New York office girl, goes to a camp in the Catskill Mountains for rest and finds Chick Kirkland.

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    Abe Lincoln in Illinois

    Abe Lincoln in Illinois

    6.8 1940 HD

    Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his...

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    Persons in Hiding

    Persons in Hiding

    3.5 1939 HD

    During a stick-up, a woman is excited by the criminal and joins him on his crime spree.

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    Of Human Hearts

    Of Human Hearts

    5.8 1938 HD

    This is a story about family relationships, set in the time before and during the American Civil War. Ethan Wilkins is a poor and honest man who...

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  • 1937
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    Super-Sleuth

    Super-Sleuth

    5 1937 HD

    A movie actor playing a detective gets carried away with his role and starts trying to solve real-life crimes.

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    Border Cafe

    Border Cafe

    6.3 1937 HD

    The spoiled, hard-partying son of a senator runs away from home after being reprimanded by his father, finds himself down-on-his luck in a tiny...

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    Condemned Women

    Condemned Women

    6.3 1938 HD

    A shoplifter gets sentenced to a women's prison.

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    Wildcat Bus

    Wildcat Bus

    4.6 1940 HD

    A broke playboy signs on to help a young beauty save her ailing bus line.

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    Sued for Libel

    Sued for Libel

    5.4 1939 HD

    A New York City newspaper is sued for libel after reporting the wrong verdict in a murder trial.

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    There Goes the Groom

    There Goes the Groom

    5.3 1937 HD

    After striking it rich in Alaskan gold, a young man returns to marry his fiancé only to be snubbed. Her sister, however, is worth considering,...

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    Fight for Your Lady

    Fight for Your Lady

    4.3 1937 HD

    Wrestling trainer puts himself in charge of a singer's love life when the singer is jilted by a rich girl.

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    Crime Ring

    Crime Ring

    4.7 1938 HD

    Fake fortunetellers win the confidence of clients and then get them to part with their money by buying mining stocks which are worthless.

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    I Stand Accused

    I Stand Accused

    1 1938 HD

    Fred, a young lawyer fresh out of school, climbs quickly to success as the mouthpiece for a gangland mob. His friend Paul, however, reaches equally...

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  • 1938
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    Kentucky

    Kentucky

    5.6 1938 HD

    Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with...

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  • 1939
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    The Escape

    The Escape

    5.5 1939 HD

    An embittered Louie Peronni returns from prison to find that his sister, Juli Peronni, is engaged to policeman Eddie Farrell, and also finds that his...

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    The Affairs of Annabel

    The Affairs of Annabel

    4 1938 HD

    Wonder Pictures has been striking out at the box office lately, causing the seedy PR man to involve main star Annabel in ever outrageous stunts for...

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    Everybody's Doing It

    Everybody's Doing It

    5 1938 HD

    Gangsters are attempting to control the solutions (and winning) of the puzzles in a national newspapers picture puzzles contest craze.

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    They Made Her a Spy

    They Made Her a Spy

    6 1939 HD

    When her brother is killed by sabotage, Irene Eaton (Sally Eilers) joins the secret service and goes undercover to unroot the culprits.

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  • 1939
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    Bachelor Mother

    Bachelor Mother

    7.1 1939 HD

    Polly Parrish, a clerk at Merlin's Department Store, is mistakenly presumed to be the mother of a foundling. Outraged at Polly's unmotherly conduct,...

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  • 1939
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    The Spellbinder

    The Spellbinder

    6 1939 HD

    Jed Marlowe is a brilliant, scheming, unscrupulous criminal lawyer whose specialty is defending criminal he knows is guilty but gets them off through...

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  • 1939
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    Swanee River

    Swanee River

    1 1939 HD

    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,...

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  • 1940
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    The Man Who Wouldn't Talk

    The Man Who Wouldn't Talk

    4 1940 HD

    A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He changes his name so as not to harm his family....

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  • 1938
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    Crashing Hollywood

    Crashing Hollywood

    5.8 1938 HD

    A true-to-life gangster movie stirs up an all out mob assault on Hollywood.

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  • 1940
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    The Blue Bird

    The Blue Bird

    5.8 1940 HD

    An ungrateful girl and her little brother are transported in their dreams by a fairy to a wonderland, tasked with finding the mythical blue bird of...

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  • 1940
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    Gangs of Chicago

    Gangs of Chicago

    5.3 1940 HD

    A criminal uses his knowledge of the law for his not-very-legal purposes, betraying friends along the way.

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  • 1926
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    Poor Mrs. Jones

    Poor Mrs. Jones

    1 1926 HD

    Tired of her grueling and unglamorous day-to-day life as a rural housewife, Jane Jones takes a vacation to the city where she stays with her sister...

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  • 1947
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    Boomerang!

    Boomerang!

    6.9 1947 HD

    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...

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  • 1940
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    Golden Gloves

    Golden Gloves

    5 1940 HD

    An amateur boxer's girlfriend inspires him to face a ring pro entered by a gangster.

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  • 1941
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    Week-End in Havana

    Week-End in Havana

    6.6 1941 HD

    A ship company employee, Jay Williams, is sent to Florida where one of the company cruise ships is stuck on a reef off of the coast. He obtains...

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  • 1940
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    Queen of the Mob

    Queen of the Mob

    4.5 1940 HD

    Ma Webster (Blanche Yurka) and her boys rob a bank on Christmas Eve; G-men stop them with Tommy guns.

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    Ski Patrol

    Ski Patrol

    3.7 1940 HD

    In 1939, a group of Finnish soldiers defend the border from Russian invaders.

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