Leona Roberts

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Leona Roberts (born July 26, 1879 in Mills , Illinois as Leona Harneteaux , † January 29, 1954 in Santa Monica , California ) was an American theater and film actress.

life and career

Leona Roberts was born under the name Leona Harneteaux in a small village in Illinois. In 1926 Roberts made her debut on Broadway , where she was a busy supporting actress with nearly 40 plays for the next twenty years. In 1926 she made her film debut with the lead role in the silent film Poor Mrs. Jones , which was commissioned by the United States Department of Agriculture and was a song of praise for rural life. But it wasn't until 1937 that she moved to Hollywood, made her second film, and began to star in films regularly. She often embodied maternal characters in supporting roles. Her probably best-known role was the somewhat snooty Mrs. Meade in the classic film Gone with the Wind . In the screwball comedy Leopards You Don't Kiss She was seen as the annoyed wife of a drunken gardener. She also starred in the films Of Human Hearts and Abe Lincoln in Illinois .

In 1941 Roberts said goodbye to Hollywood and went back to Broadway, where she played until 1945. In the late 1940s, she had minor supporting roles in four films before she retired from acting entirely in 1949. Her younger sister was the actress Edith Roberts (1899-1935). Robert's daughter was the actress Josephine Hutchinson .

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  1. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1183719/
personal data
SURNAME Roberts, Leona
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American theater and film actress
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Mills , Illinois
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 1954
Place of death Santa Monica , California