Marguerite Leslie

Marguerite Leslie (born Marguerite Hedman, April 3, 1884 – 1958) was a Swedish-born English actress.

Marguerite Leslie
Marguerite Leslie, from a 1916 publication
Born
Marguerite Hedman

April 13, 1884
Östersund, Jämtland County, Sweden
Died1958 (aged 73–74)
OccupationActress
RelativesMartha Hedman (sister)

Early life

Marguerite Hedman was born in Östersund, Jämtland County, Sweden, the daughter of Johan Hedman and Ingrid Kempe. Her sister Martha Hedman also worked as an actress,[1][2] and later as a writer. The sisters were educated in Sweden, Finland, and London.[3]

Career
Portrait of Marguerite Leslie, photographed by Arnold Genthe

Marguerite Hedman adopted the name "Marguerite Leslie" as an actress in London,[1] where she appeared in Nero (1906), The Beauty of Bath (1906-1907), My Darling (1907), Concerning a Countess (1907),[4] A Scotch Marriage (1907-1908), Penelope (1909),[5] Preserving Mr. Panmure (1911), The Marionettes (1911-1912), At the Barn (1912), and The Vision of Delight (1912).[6]

Her Broadway credits included The Virginian (1904), Penelope (1909-1910), The Secret (1913-1914), Outcast (1914-1915), and The Basker (1916). In Los Angeles she had roles in The Gamblers (1912)[7] and The Money Moon (1912).[8] She also appeared in four silent films, Jim the Penman (1915, now lost), The Question (1916), The Mite of Love (1919, a short), and The Chosen Path (1919).[9]

She was tall,[10] and considered a beauty as a young actress,[3] a "Burne-Jones girl in an English garden-party hat... quite the pinkest and whitest, fresh daisiest thing we have had for a long while," mused one Los Angeles writer.[11] During World War I she worked raising funds for the Red Cross.[12]

References
  1. "Sisters of the Stage" Theatre Magazine (July 1914): 23.
  2. "Turning the Tables on Miss Leslie" Chicago Daily Tribune (May 4, 1913): B2.
  3. Ada Patterson, "'London's Loveliest Leading Lady' Goes into 'The Movies'" Green Book Magazine (February 1916): 321-326.
  4. "Marguerite Leslie" The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News (November 9, 1907): 1.
  5. J. P. Wearing, The London Stage, 1900-1909: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel (Scarecrow Press 2013): various. ISBN 9780810892941
  6. J. P. Wearing, The London Stage, 1910-1919: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel (Scarecrow Press 2013): various. ISBN 9780810893009
  7. "New Principals for the Belasco; Marguerite Leslie and Orrin Johnson to Appear" Los Angeles Times (August 31, 1912): II5.
  8. "Marguerite Leslie to Have Her Chance" Los Angeles Herald (October 4, 1912): 18. via California Digital Newspaper Collection open access
  9. Hans J. Wollstein, Strangers in Hollywood: The History of Scandinavian Actors in American Films from 1910 to World War II (Scarecrow Press 1994): 210-211. ISBN 9780810829381
  10. Eileen O'Connor, "What Marguerite Leslie Learned in America" Theatre Magazine (March 1916): 138.
  11. Grace Kingsley, "Fair Picture is Miss Leslie; New Burbank Star Fresh from Dear Old England" Los Angeles Times (August 14, 1912): III4.
  12. Hanna Astrup Larsen, "Norse Legions of Democracy" The American-Scandinavian Review (July-August 1918): 196.
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