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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.
Leona Roberts Biography / Wiki
| Name | Leona Roberts |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Mills Township, Bond County, Illinois, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1879-07-26 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 74 |
| Deathday | 1954-01-29 |
Leona Roberts Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Border Cafe | Emily Whitney | 1937-06-04 | 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 wester… |
| Condemned Women | Kate Holt | 1938-03-18 | A shoplifter gets sentenced to a women’s prison…. |
| The Madonna’s Secret | Mrs. Corbin | 1946-02-16 | 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 h… |
| I Stand Accused | Mrs. Davis | 1938-10-29 | 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 qu… |
| Bringing Up Baby | Hannah Gogarty | 1938-02-18 | 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… |
| Wildcat Bus | Ma Talbot | 1940-08-23 | A broke playboy signs on to help a young beauty save her ailing bus line…. |
| The Escape | Aunt Mamie Qualen | 1939-10-05 | An embittered Louie Peronni (Edward Norris) returns from prison to find that his sister, Juli Peronni (Amanda Duff), is engaged to policeman Eddie Far… |
| Gangs of Chicago | Mrs. Whitaker | 1940-05-18 | A criminal uses his knowledge of the law for his not-very-legal purposes, betraying friends along the way…. |
| Golden Gloves | Mrs. Parker | 1940-08-02 | An amateur boxer’s girlfriend inspires him to face a ring pro entered by a gangster…. |
| There Goes the Groom | Martha | 1937-10-29 | 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, until … |
| Of Human Hearts | Sister Clarke | 1938-02-11 | 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 minis… |
| They Made Her a Spy | Ella Wilkins | 1939-04-14 | When her brother is killed by sabotage, Irene Eaton (Sally Eilers) joins the secret service and goes undercover to unroot the culprits…. |
| This Marriage Business | Mrs. Platt | 1938-04-08 | A cocky reporter turns a small town marriage license clerk into a media celebrity…. |
| Blondie Plays Cupid | Tante Hannah Henderson | 1940-10-31 | The Bumstead family is off to see relatives in the country when Blondie runs into Charlie and Millie, an eloping couple needing her help…. |
| Sued for Libel | Mrs. Trent | 1939-10-27 | A New York City newspaper is sued for libel after reporting the wrong verdict in a murder trial…. |
| Crime Ring | Mrs. Wharton | 1938-07-08 | Fake fortunetellers win the confidence of clients and then get them to part with their money by buying mining stocks which are worthless…. |
| Kentucky | Grace Goodwin | 1938-12-30 | 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 … |
| Fight for Your Lady | Cleaning Woman | 1937-11-05 | Wrestling trainer puts himself in charge of a singer’s love life when the singer is jilted by a rich girl…. |
| The Affairs of Annabel | Mrs. Hurley | 1938-09-09 | 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 pu… |
| The Blue Bird | Mrs. Berlingot | 1940-01-15 | 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 ha… |
| Week-End in Havana | Passenger | 1941-10-17 | 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 waiver… |
| Swanee River | Mrs. Foster | 1939-12-29 | 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, t… |
| Boomerang! | Mrs. Crossman (uncredited) | 1947-02-28 | In a quiet Connecticut town, a kindly priest is murdered while waiting at a street corner. The citizens are horrified and demand action from the polic… |
| Having Wonderful Time | Mrs. Shaw | 1938-07-01 | Teddy Shaw, a bored New York office girl, goes to a camp in the Catskill Mountains for rest and finds Chick Kirkland…. |
| Abe Lincoln in Illinois | Mrs. Rutledge | 1940-02-22 | 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 el… |
| Ski Patrol | Mother Ryder | 1940-05-09 | In 1939, a group of Finnish soldiers defend the border from Russian invaders…. |
| Everybody’s Doing It | Woman at Bar | 1938-01-14 | Gangsters are attempting to control the solutions (and winning) of the puzzles in a national newspapers picture puzzles contest craze…. |
| Crashing Hollywood | Extra Assigned to Stage 6 (uncredited) | 1938-01-07 | A true-to-life gangster movie stirs up an all out mob assault on Hollywood…. |
| Gone with the Wind | Mrs. Caroline Meade | 1939-12-15 | The spoiled daughter of a well-to-do plantation owner is forced to use every means at her disposal to claw her way out of poverty, following Maj. Gen…. |
| Super-Sleuth | Mrs. Abbington | 1937-07-16 | A movie actor playing a detective gets carried away with his role and starts trying to solve real-life crimes…. |
| Queen of the Mob | Mrs. Greenough | 1940-06-28 | Ma Webster (Blanche Yurka) and her boys rob a bank on Christmas Eve; G-men stop them with Tommy guns…. |
| Bachelor Mother | Old Lady (uncredited) | 1939-06-30 | 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, D… |
| The Spellbinder | Mrs. Jenkins (Uncredited) | 1939-07-28 | Jed Marlowe is a brilliant, scheming, unscrupulous criminal lawyer whose specialty is defending criminal he knows is guilty but gets them off through … |
| A Man Betrayed | Mrs. Smith – Johnny’s Mother (uncredited) | 1941-03-07 | 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 ac… |
| The Man Who Wouldn’t Talk | 1940-01-11 | 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. The… | |
Credit: TMDB
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