13 Facts About Bethel Leslie

Jane Bethel Leslie was an American actress and screenwriter.

Bethel Leslie's parents were a lawyer, Warren Leslie, and Jane Leslie, a newspaperwoman.

In 1950, Bethel Leslie was cast as Cornelia Otis Skinner in The Girls, a television series based on the author's Our Hearts Were Young and Gay.

Bethel Leslie departed the show after two months to appear with Helen Hayes in the play The Wisteria Trees, adapted from Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, by Joshua Logan.

Bethel Leslie began working in television in the 1940s and frequently was a guest on the many anthology series popular in the early to mid-1950s, such as Studio One and Playhouse 90.

Bethel Leslie appeared with Ronald W Reagan and Stafford Repp in the 1960 episode "The Way Home" of CBS's The DuPont Show with June Allyson.

Bethel Leslie made three guest appearances on Perry Mason, and was featured as Perry's client in all three episodes.

Bethel Leslie guest-starred in many western television series, including The Texan, Mackenzie's Raiders, The Man from Blackhawk, Riverboat, Wanted: Dead or Alive, Trackdown, Bat Masterson, The Rifleman, The High Chaparral, Gunsmoke, Maverick, Pony Express, Stagecoach West, Bonanza, The Wild Wild West, Have Gun - Will Travel, and Wagon Train.

Bethel Leslie became a regular on the NBC soap The Doctors, when she took over the role of "Maggie Powers" after Ann Williams left the part.

Bethel Leslie was featured in the 1964 episode "The Fluellen Family" in the NBC western Daniel Boone.

Bethel Leslie was the head writer for The Secret Storm in 1970.

Bethel Leslie scripted episodes for Gunsmoke, Bracken's World, Barnaby Jones, McCloud, The New Land, Matt Helm, and Falcon Crest.

Bethel Leslie died of cancer at 70 in her Manhattan apartment.