Leatrice Joy

Actor

Female

Born Nov 7, 1893

Hometown New Orleans, Loui...

Died May 13, 1985

Death Place Riverdale, Bronx,...

Other Names Zeidler, Leatrice...

Leatrice Joy was an American actress most prolific during the early silent film era.

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John Gilbert
Married 1922 - 1924

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Lon Chaney Movie Schedule: The Phantom Of The Opera, Tell It To The Marines ... Alt Film Guide (Blog)
Google News - Aug 15, 2011

Cast: Leatrice Joy, John Bowers, Lon Chaney. BW-75 mins. 7:30 AM THE UNHOLY THREE (1930) A ventriloquist, a strong man and a midget form a criminal alliance. Dir: Jack Conway. Cast: Lon Chaney, Lila Lee, Elliott Nugent. BW-72 mins
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Video; When De Mille Parted The Red Sea
NYTimes - Apr 03, 2011

CECIL B. DeMILLE would probably have approved of the concept behind Paramount Home Entertainment's 55th anniversary gift set edition of ''The Ten Commandments,'' an appropriately colossal undertaking that includes three Blu-ray discs and three standard DVDs, a commemorative book, reproductions of the original program and assorted documents and
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At The Movies
NYTimes - Apr 07, 2000

Hollywood, Back When . . ''My mother was great friends with your mother,'' Leatrice Gilbert Fountain told Budd Schulberg as they shook hands in a suite at the Drake Hotel in Manhattan. The occasion was the annual New York visit of the Turner Classic Movies Archival Project, an ongoing initiative of the cable channel to interview every available
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Critic's Notebook; At Wits' End: Algonquinites In Hollywood
NYTimes - Jan 08, 1993

BY 1935, Dorothy Parker had abandoned the life of a New York sophisticate for that of a Hollywood screenwriter, but the sunshine did nothing to mellow her caustic outlook. As she wrote in a letter back east to Alexander Woollcott, her friend from the old days of the Algonquin Round Table, "Aside from the work which I hate like holy water, I love it
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CHILDHOOD

1893 Birth Born on November 7, 1893.

TWENTIES

1915 21 Years Old Born as Leatrice Joy Zeidler in New Orleans, Louisiana, she began her acting career in stock theater companies and made her film debut for the little-known small New Orleans based Nola Film Company in 1915.

1917 23 Years Old 1 More Event

By 1917 she relocated to the relatively young film colony in Hollywood, California and began appearing in comedy shorts opposite Billy West and Oliver Hardy.

1920 26 Years Old By 1920, Joy's career quickly gained momentum and she became a highly popular actress with the film-going public and was given leading lady status opposite such performers as Wallace Beery, Conrad Nagel, Nita Naldi and Irene Rich. … Read More

1922 28 Years Old 1 More Event

With her increasing popularity, Joy was sought out by Cecil B. DeMille and signed to contract to Paramount Pictures in 1922 and that same year was cast in the successful high-society drama Saturday Night opposite Conrad Nagel. … Read More

THIRTIES

1925 31 Years Old In 1925, against the advice of studio executives, Joy parted ways with Paramount and followed DeMille to his new film company, Producers Distributing Corporation, and she made a few modestly successful films for the company, including Lois Weber's last silent film The Angel of Broadway in 1927.

1928 34 Years Old 1 More Event

A professional dispute ended the partnership with DeMille and Joy in 1928 and Joy was signed with MGM.

1929 35 Years Old Joy's career began to falter with the advent of talkies, possibly because her heavy southern accent was considered unfashionable in comparison with the refined east coast diction of other actresses. In 1929 Joy became a freelance actress without a contract. … Read More

1931 37 Years Old Joy married William S. Hook in 1931. … Read More

LATE ADULTHOOD

1980 86 Years Old In 1980, she appeared in the television documentary series Hollywood: A Celebration of the American Silent Film, and spoke about her relationship with John Gilbert.

1985 92 Years Old She died in 1985 of acute anemia in Riverdale, Bronx, New York and was interred at the Saint Savior Episcopal Churchyard in Old Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut. … Read More

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