Leila Hyams was an American film and stage actress, model, and vaudevillian, who came from a show business family.
11 Facts About Leila Hyams
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Leila Hyams was born in New York City to vaudeville comedy performers John Hyams and Leila Hyams.
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Leila Hyams's mother was a noted stage performer, and both her parents appeared in films.
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Leila Hyams made her first film in 1924, and with her blonde hair, green eyes, delicate features, and good-natured demeanor, was cast in a string of supporting roles, where she was required to do very little but smile and look pretty.
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Leila Hyams proved herself capable of handling the small roles she was assigned, and over a period of time she came to be taken seriously as an actress.
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The quality of her parts continued to improve as the decade turned, including a role as Robert Montgomery's sister in the prison drama The Big House with Chester Morris and Wallace Beery, for which Leila Hyams received positive reviews.
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Leila Hyams then appeared in Surrender in which Warner Baxter and Ralph Bellamy desperately competed for her attention.
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Leila Hyams was the original choice to play Jane in Tarzan the Ape Man, but turned it down.
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Leila Hyams appeared in the then-controversial Jean Harlow film Red-Headed Woman and the musical comedy The Big Broadcast with Bing Crosby, George Burns, and Gracie Allen, and was praised for her comedic performance in Ruggles of Red Gap.
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Leila Hyams made 1,000 Dollars a Minute for Republic in 1935 and retired soon after.
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In 1977, after a brief illness, Leila Hyams died at age 72 at her home in Bel-Air in Los Angeles.