Leah Baird
Leah Baird | |
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Born |
Champaign, Illinois, U.S. | June 20, 1883
Died |
October 3, 1971 88) Los Angeles, California, U.S. | (aged
Resting place | Hollywood Forever Cemetery |
Years active | 1910-1957 |
Spouse(s) |
Arthur F. Beck (m.1914–?) |
Leah Baird (June 20, 1883 – October 3, 1971) was an American actress of the silent screen, and a screenwriter.
Life
She began her film career in 1910 in Jean and the Waif opposite Jean, the Vitagraph Dog. She played several leads in William F. Brady's troupe, opposite Douglas Fairbanks. In the late 1910s she played in 15 episodes of the serial Wolves of Kultur. Baird wrote and produced film during the 1920s.[1]
Baird later became a screenwriter and contributed to a number of Clara Bow features. She was married to producer Arthur F. Beck.
Partial filmography
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Photo from The First One Hundred Noted Men and Women of the Screen by Carolyn Lowrey pub. 1920
Actress
- Jean and the Waif (1910)
- Chumps (1912)
- A Cure for Pokeritis (1912)
- All for a Girl (1912)
- Red and White Roses (1913)
- Hearts of the First Empire (1913)
- Ivanhoe (1913)
- Absinthe (1914)
- Neptune's Daughter (1914)
- Lights of New York (1916)
- One Law for Both (1917)
- The Echo of Youth (1919)
- Is Divorce A Failure? (1923)
- Lady Gangster (1942)
- Air Force (1943)
- The Adventures of Mark Twain (Uncredited, 1944)
- Mildred Pierce (Uncredited, 1945)
- Shadow of a Woman (1946)
- Around the World in Eighty Days (Uncredited, 1956)
- The Phantom Stagecoach (Uncredited, 1957)
Writer
- The Dawning (1912)
- Devil's Island (1926)
- Spangles (1926)
- The False Alarm (1926)
- The Return of Boston Blackie (1927)
- Stolen Pleasures (1927)
- Jungle Bride (1933)
Producer
- Cynthia of the Minute (1920)
- Shadow of the Law (1926)
References
- ↑ Blaetz, Robin. "Leah Baird". Women Film Pioneers. Columbia University Libraries. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
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