Andrea Leeds

Andrea Leeds was an American film actress who began appearing in bit parts in 1933, at first billed under her given name, Andrea Lees. Born in Butte, Montana, she spent much of her youth in Mexico and had planned to become a writer before turning to the screen. Her first substantial role came in Come and Get It (1936), and she followed it with It Could Happen to You. As a member of the ensemble of Stage Door (1937), alongside Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers and Lucille Ball, she earned an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actress. She played Miss Humanity in The Goldwyn Follies (1938), then took her first leading female role opposite Joel McCrea in Youth Takes a Fling, and later played the romantic lead in The Real Glory with Gary Cooper and David Niven. She retired in 1940; her last film was Earthbound, released that year. She died in 1984.