Joan Leslie was born in Detroit and began acting as a child performer. She was never able to escape the good girl role in her early work. She married Dr. William Caldwell in 1950. She quit her acting career to raise her identical twin daughters Patrice and Ellen. Both daughters are now Doctors teaching at universities.See full bio »
2008Warner at War
(TV documentary)
(performer: "You're a Grand Old Flag" - uncredited, "Over There" - uncredited)
1946Cinderella Jones
(performer: "If You're Waitin' I'm Waitin' Too", "Cinderella Jones", "When the One You Love Simply Won't Love Back", "You Never Know Where You're Goin' Till You Get There")
1945Rhapsody in Blue
(performer: "Embraceable You" - uncredited, "Smiles" - uncredited, "Somebody Loves Me" - uncredited, "Delishious" - uncredited)
1943Thank Your Lucky Stars
(performer: "I'm Riding for a Fall" 1943 - uncredited, "No You, No Me" 1943 - uncredited)
1943The Sky's the Limit
(performer: "My Shining Hour" - uncredited, "A Lot in Common with You" - uncredited)
1943The Hard Way
(performer: "Youth Must Have Its Fling" 1942 - uncredited, "Am I Blue?" 1929 - uncredited, "I'll String Along with You" 1934 - uncredited, "Shuffle Off to Buffalo" 1932 - uncredited, "She's a Latin from Manhattan" 1935 - uncredited)
1942Yankee Doodle Dandy
(performer: "Mary's a Grand Old Name" 1906 - uncredited, "Harrigan" 1908 - uncredited, "The Warmest Baby in the Bunch" 1896 - uncredited)
1941High Sierra
(performer: "I Get a Kick out of You 1934" - uncredited)
1940Alice in Movieland
(short)
(performer: "Will My Dream Come True" - uncredited)
[on working with James Craig in
Northwest Stampede] He was a pill . . . not easy to work with. He seemed to have a chip on his shoulder and it showed in everything he did.
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Trivia:
Mentioned in The Andrews Sisters' song "Corns for My Country": "We're not petite like Joan Leslie".
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