Leona Maricle (December 23, 1905 – March 25, 1988) was an American stage and film actress known for "distinctive characterizations of colorful ladies."
Maricle was a graduate of
the College of Industrial Arts. Her Broadway debut came in ''The Trial of Mary Dugan'' (1927). Her final appearance on Broadway was in ''Never Too Late'' (1962).
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In the mid-1930s, she and her husband were active in ]summer stock theatre
In American theater, summer-stock theater is a theater that presents stage productions only in the summer. The name combines the season with the tradition of staging shows by a resident company, reusing stock scenery and costumes. Summer stock the ...
in Skowhegan, Maine.Louis Jean Heydt
Louis Jean Heydt (April 17, 1903 – January 29, 1960) was an American character actor in film, television and theatre, most frequently seen in hapless, ineffectual, or fall guy roles.
Early life
Heydt was born in 1903 (not 1905, as many sour ...
was a character actor in films from the 1930s through the 1950s. They divorced. She did not remarry.
On March 25, 1988, Maricle died of an apparent heart attack in her apartment in Manhattan. Her obituary in ''The New York Times'' gave her age as 81. She was survived by a cousin, Marijane Maricle of Manhattan, and a niece, Joan Hickman of Lake Charles, Louisiana.
Selected filmography
* ''O'Shaughnessy's Boy'' (1935)
* ''Theodora Goes Wild
''Theodora Goes Wild'' is a 1936 American screwball comedy film that tells the story of the residents in a small town who are incensed by a risqué novel, unaware that the book was written under a pseudonym by a member of the town's leading fami ...
'' (1936)
* ''Women of Glamour
''Women of Glamour'' is a 1937 American comedy film directed by Gordon Wiles and starring Virginia Bruce, Melvyn Douglas and Reginald Denny.Goble p.1022
It is a remake of the 1930 film ''Ladies of Leisure'', which was itself based on the 1926 si ...
'' (1937)
* ''Woman Chases Man
''Woman Chases Man'' is a 1937 romantic comedy film directed by John G. Blystone and starring Miriam Hopkins and Joel McCrea.
Plot
B.J. Nolan tries to get his millionaire son Kenneth to invest $100,000 in a housing development called Nolan Heig ...
'' (1937)
* ''The Lone Wolf in Paris
''The Lone Wolf in Paris'' is a 1938 American film, one of Columbia's Lone Wolf film series.
In the start-and-stop history of the Lone Wolf series, this entry is the only one with Lederer as star. It stands alone between Melvyn Douglas's ''Th ...
'' (1938)
* '' Curtain Call'' (1940)
* '' Under Age'' (1941)
* ''My Reputation
''My Reputation'' is a 1946 American romantic drama film directed by Curtis Bernhardt. Barbara Stanwyck portrays an upper-class widow whose romance with an army officer causes trouble for her gossiping friends, domineering mother and young sons. ...
'' (1946)
References
Bibliography
* Blottner, Gene. ''Columbia Noir: A Complete Filmography, 1940-1962''. McFarland, 2015.
External links
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1905 births
1988 deaths
American film actresses
American stage actresses
Actresses from Texas
People from Wichita Falls, Texas
20th-century American actresses
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