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Thursday, October 15, 2015
Joan Leslie
Actress -- via the Hollywood Reporter. AKA Joan Brodel. Started off as a part of a singing vaudeville trio with her sisters; at age 9 she pretended to be 16 to keep working. Appeared in many major films -- she was Velma in "High Sierra," Mary in "Yankee Doodle Dandy," and Gracie in "Sergeant York."
