1. Andrea Leeds was born on August 18,1913, in Butte, Montana, the only child of Charles and Lina Lees.
11 Facts About Andrea Leeds
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Charles was a mining engineer; his mining interests led to Andrea Leeds living most of her younger life in Mexico.
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Under the name Andrea Leeds, she played her first substantial role in the film Come and Get It and achieved another success with her next film It Could Happen to You.
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In 1938, Andrea Leeds read for the role of and did screen tests for the role of Melanie in Gone with the Wind; however the role was given to Olivia de Havilland.
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Andrea Leeds next appeared in two films opposite Joel McCrea, Youth Takes a Fling and They Shall Have Music, for the first time playing the lead female role.
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Andrea Leeds continued to play the romantic female lead in an adventure film The Real Glory, opposite Gary Cooper and David Niven, and opposite Don Ameche in Swanee River, the first Technicolor biography of Stephen Foster.
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Andrea Leeds's final film Earthbound was a fantasy murder mystery in which her character is aided by the ghost of her late husband to solve his murder.
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On October 25,1939, Leeds married Robert Stewart Howard, son of California businessman and racehorse owner Charles S Howard.
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Andrea Leeds died from cancer at age 70 on May 21,1984, in Riverside, California.
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Andrea Leeds was interred in Desert Memorial Park in Cathedral City, California.
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In 1994, Andrea Leeds received a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs Walk of Stars.