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Leatrice Joy

American actress (–)

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Born

Leatrice Johanna Zeidler


()November 7,

New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.

DiedMay 13, () (aged&#;91)

New York City, U.S.

Resting placeSaint Savior Episcopal Churchyard
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OccupationActress
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Leatrice Joy (born Leatrice Johanna Zeidler;[1] November 7, &#; May 13, ) was an American actress most prolific during the silent film era.

Early life

Joy was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, to dentist Edward Joseph Zeidler.[2]

She attended the Convent of the Sacred Heart in New Orleans, where she had planned on becoming a nun, but left when her father was diagnosed with tuberculosis and was forced to give up his dental practice.

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    • She tried out for the New Orleans–based Nola Film Company in and was hired as an actress. Her mother disapproved of her becoming an actress, but the family needed the money, so her mother accompanied her to California, where she began working in plays and films.[3][4]

    Career

    Silent films

    Joy began her acting career in stock theater companies and soon made her film debut; between April and by November , she was the star of about 20 one-reel Black Diamond Comedies produced by the United States Motion Picture Corporation in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and released nationally by Paramount Pictures.[5] In many of these, she starred as Susie.

    In late she relocated to the relatively young film colony in Hollywood, California, and began appearing in comedy shorts opposite Billy West and Oliver Hardy. Signed under contract with Samuel Goldwyn Studios, her first role for the studio was in s The Pride of the Clan opposite Mary Pickford. Her career quickly gained momentum, and by she had become a highly-popular actress with the filmgoing public[citation needed] and was given leading-lady status opposite such performers as Wallace Beery, Conrad Nagel, Nita Naldi, and Irene Rich.[6]

    Directors often cast Joy in the strong-willed independent woman role, and the liberated atmosphere of the Jazz AgeRoaring Twenties solidified her public popularity, especially with female movie goers.

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    Her close-cropped hair and somewhat boyish persona (she was often cast as a woman mistaken for a young man) became fashionable during the era.[citation needed] With her increasing popularity, Joy was sought out by Cecil B. DeMille, who signed her to Paramount Pictures in , immediately casting her in that year's successful high-society drama Saturday Night opposite Conrad Nagel.

    Joy starred in a number of successful releases for Paramount and was heavily promoted as one of DeMille's most prominent protégées.[6]

    In , against the advice of studio executives, Joy parted ways with Paramount and followed DeMille to his new film company Producers Distributing Corporation, for which she made a few moderately successful films, including Lois Weber's last silent film The Angel of Broadway in After Joy impulsively cut her hair extremely short in , DeMille was publicly angry as it prevented her from portraying traditional feminine roles.[7] The studio developed projects to promote the “Leatrice Joy bob” which she wore in Made for Love, Eve's Leaves, The Clinging Vine, For Alimony Only, and Vanity.[7] Although she regrew her hair after styles changed in early , a professional dispute ended the DeMille/Joy partnership in , and she was signed with MGM.

    That year, she headlined MGM's second part-talkie effort, The Bellamy Trial opposite Betty Bronson and Margaret Livingston.[8]

    Transition to sound

    Joy's career began to falter with the advent of talkies, possibly because her heavy Southern accent was considered unfashionable in comparison with other actresses' refined "Mid-Atlantic" diction.

    In , she became a freelance actress without a long term contract. In order to improve her chances of regaining her film career, she undertook a vaudeville tour from to , as a training ground for returning successfully to talkies.

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    She was particularly interested in improving her voice and learning how to better handle dialogue.[citation needed]

    Retirement and later years

    By the early s, Joy was semi-retired from the motion-picture industry, but she later made several guest appearances in a few modestly-successful films, such as 's Love Nest, which featured a young Marilyn Monroe.

    In the s, Joy retired to Greenwich, Connecticut, where she lived near her daughter and son-in-law.[9]

    Joy appeared as a subject on the game show To Tell the Truth on July 1,

    She was interviewed in the television documentary series Hollywood: A Celebration of the American Silent Film ().[10]

    Personal life

    Joy was married three times and had one child.

    On March 22, , she married actor John Gilbert. They had a daughter, Leatrice,[11][12] who later acted in bit parts; she was the first wife of novelist and playwright Ernest Gébler.[13][14] Joy filed for divorce in August , citing Gilbert's infidelity and alcoholism.[15][16] Joy's second marriage was to businessman William Spencer Hook on October 22, ;[17] they divorced in Joy's third and final marriage was to former actor and electrical engineer Arthur Kem Westermark.

    They married on March 5, , in Mexico City and divorced in October [18][19]

    During her silent film career in the s, she was Hollywood's best known Christian Scientist.[20]

    Death

    On May 13, , Joy died from acute anemia at the High Ridge House Christian Science nursing home in Riverdale, Bronx, New York.[21][22] She was interred at the Saint Savior Episcopal Churchyard in Old Greenwich, Connecticut.[citation needed]

    For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Leatrice Joy has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at Hollywood Blvd.

    in Hollywood, California.[23]

    Filmography

    References

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    15. ^"Leatrice Joy Asks Divorce". The Telegraph-Herald. August 3, p.&#; Retrieved February 12,
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    20. ^"Leatrice Joy Has New Role; Through With Film Career". The Telegraph-Herald and Times-Journal. October 22, p.&#;1. Retrieved February 12,
    21. ^"Leatrice Joy Wed Electrical Engineer". The Evening Independent. March 14, Retrieved February 12,
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    23. ^Anthony Slide ().

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      "Christianity Hollywood Style: Reverend Neal Dodd". Silent Topics: Essays on Undocumented Areas of Silent Film. Scarecrow Press. p.&#; ISBN&#;.

    24. ^"Leatrice Joy, 91, Dies; Actress in Silent Films". The New York Times. May 18,
    25. ^"Featured in DeMille's 'The Ten Commandments'&#;: Silent Film Star Leatrice Joy Dies at 91".

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