11 Facts About Isabel Leighton

Isabel Leighton Bunker was an American writer and actress.

Isabel Leighton was the writer of six Broadway plays, and had an extensive journalism career throughout the 1930s and 40s.

Isabel Leighton graduated from Horace Mann School and then attended the Columbia School of Journalism, making her debut in 1917, before leaving school to marry.

In 1939, Isabel Leighton wrote the story for the film Fight for Your Lady alongside Jean Negulesco.

Isabel Leighton wrote for the North American Newspaper Alliance, for whom she interviewed Carol II of Romania in 1931.

Isabel Leighton served on the boards of the World Federation for Mental Health, Menninger Foundation, and the National Committee for Mental Hygiene.

In 1933, Isabel Leighton served as head of the women's committee of the National Recovery Administration campaign in New York City.

On February 15,1935, at Norwalk, Connecticut, Leighton married Frederic A Willis, assistant to William S Paley, the president of Columbia Broadcasting System.

Isabel Leighton's second husband was a grandson of British Army officer Frederick Willis and a distant cousin of Winston Churchill through the Jerome family.

Isabel Leighton had been a patient at the Menninger Clinic in the city and was briefly married to the writer Evan H Rhodes.

Isabel Leighton died from a stroke at her Manhattan home on April 22,1995.