1. Lila Leeds worked as a dancer in St Louis before moving to Los Angeles.
14 Facts About Lila Leeds
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The marriage was annulled when Lila Leeds discovered that Little was already married.
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In 1945 Lila Leeds appeared on stage at the Harold Lloyd co-founded venue and talent showcase, the Beverly Hills Little Theatre for Professionals, when she was still a teenager, starring in a campus comedy.
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Lila Leeds appeared in the Red Skelton film The Show-Off ; Lady in the Lake, based on a Raymond Chandler story; and in the Lana Turner vehicle Green Dolphin Street, where she played a Eurasian who drugs the leading man and rolls him for his money.
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Lila Leeds had a small part in So You Want to Be a Detective, which was part of the Joe McDoakes series of theatrical shorts, the film being a reworking of the subjective camera style used in Lady in the Lake, in which Leeds had previously appeared.
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Lila Leeds was producer Harold Hecht's top choice to star in Kiss the Blood Off My Hands, the first film by Hecht and co-star Burt Lancaster's production company Norma Productions.
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Lila Leeds was ultimately replaced by Joan Fontaine, who was already under contract with the movie's financer and distributor Universal-International Pictures.
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On September 1,1948, Lila Leeds gained notoriety for being arrested together with actor Robert Mitchum on charges of marijuana possession.
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Lila Leeds was sentenced to spend sixty days in jail.
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Cheryl Crane, Turner and Stephen's daughter, wrote that Lila Leeds first tried marijuana with members of Stan Kenton's orchestra and that she was introduced to heroin while in jail.
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Unable to find more work in films, Lila Leeds left California in 1949.
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Lila Leeds moved around the Midwest where she worked in nightclubs, married and divorced twice, and had three children, Shawn, Ivan and Laura, all of whom lived in Southern California.
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Lila Leeds eventually made her way back to Los Angeles in 1966 where she studied religion, established a church and volunteered at local missions and soup kitchens.
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On September 15,1999, Lila Leeds died of a heart attack at age 71 in Los Angeles.