Barbara Leonard

Acting

Barbara Leonard

Born 1908-01-09 · San Francisco, California, USA

Acting credits

The Merry Widow poster
6.7

A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country.

The Merry Widow

1934

The White Angel poster
7.2

In Victorian England, Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly change the attitude towards nurses when it was considered a disreputable profession.

The White Angel

1936

A Successful Calamity poster
5.6

Henry Wilton is an elderly millionaire saddled with his selfish young second wife Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton and a pair of spoiled grown children, Peggy and Eddie. To test his family's mettle, Henry pretends to have gone broke. Just as he suspected they would, his children rally to their father's side and change their ways: Peggy forsakes the fortune hunter George Struthers for the nice young man she's really in love with, the polo coach Larry Rivers, while Eddie applies for a demanding job and performs admirably. Only Sweetie seems to desert Henry.

A Successful Calamity

1932

Paramount on Parade poster
5.9

This 1930 film, a collection of songs and sketches showcasing Paramount Studios' contract stars, credits 11 directors

Paramount on Parade

1930

Folies Bergère de Paris poster
6.0

An entertainer impersonates a look-alike banker, causing comic confusion for wife and girlfriend.

Folies Bergère de Paris

1935

One Hour with You poster
6.4

Andre and Colette Bertier are happily married. When Colette introduces her husband to her flirtatious best friend, Mitzi, he does his best to resist her advances. But she is persistent, and very cute, and he succumbs. Mitzi's husband wants to divorce her, and has been having her tailed. Andre gets caught, and must confess to his wife. But Colette has had problems resisting the attentions of another man herself, and they forgive each other.

One Hour with You

1932

Play Ball poster
7.0

The story of this 10 episode serial deals with the love affair between Doris Sutton, daughter of a millionaire business magnate, whose affairs are under investigation by U. S. Senator Hornell, and Hornell's son, who under the name of Jack Rollins is endeavoring to make good as a big league player. Matters are complicated by Count Segundo, a foreign agent, who has been instructed to "get something" on Sutton.

Play Ball

1925

Flirtation Walk poster
5.8

A private stationed in Hawaii gets involved with the general's engaged daughter. In order to avoid a scandal, the pair break up, but meet again years later when he's at West Point producing the annual play that turns out to star her.

Flirtation Walk

1934

City Streets poster
6.3

A mobster's daughter leads her boyfriend from the circus into bootlegging.

City Streets

1931

Desirable poster
7.2

A man meets the daughter of his lover and they begin to fall in love.

Desirable

1934

Plumber in love poster
9.0

This is the French-language version of Buster Keaton's The Passionate Plumber (1932). This film is presumed to be lost.

Plumber in love

1932

Second Fiddle poster
5.1

Studio publicist discovers Minnesota skating teacher and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back to Minnesota but he follows her.

Second Fiddle

1939

Espionage poster
7.0

Two reporters pose as man and wife in order to get the goods on a munitions supplier and the rumours of war in Europe.

Espionage

1937

City in Darkness poster
6.5

Chan, in Paris for a reunion with friends from World War I, becomes involved in investigating the murder of a munitions manufacturer who was supplying arms to the enemy, even as the rising clouds of World War II force the city into nightly blackout status..

City in Darkness

1939

Insure Your Wife poster
7.0

This Fox Film comedy – based on a play by Argentinean writer Julio Escobar – features an international cast that includes actor and singer Raúl Roulien and his fiancée in both the movie and real life, actress and dancer Conchita Montenegro. The plot centers on Ricardo Randall (Roulien), who concocts a scheme to establish an insurance policy to protect men from their wives’ infidelity. The plot thickens when Ricardo’s secretary and love interest, Camelia Cornell (Montenegro), is faced with the return of Rita Martín (Maris), a former lover of Ricardo, whose husband Eduardo (Moreno) has purchased an insurance policy on her. The film features tango songs performed by Roulien, with lyrics by Spanish playwright Enrique Jardiel Poncela, who also collaborated on the film’s screenplay.

Insure Your Wife

1935

Ladies of the Night Club poster
10.0

The wealthy millionaire patron of a nightclub is attracted by the female half of a vaudeville show and showers her with gifts. This upsets her stage partner who hopes to marry her despite his limited wealth.

Ladies of the Night Club

1928

The Crash poster
5.5

Linda Gault is a luxury loving wife who casually seduces other men while getting investment tips from one of her lovers.

The Crash

1932

No artwork available
5.0

Two friends - Andy and Harry - get into trouble while they are trying to prevent the marriage of Andy's daughter.

The Bees' Buzz

1929

Women Without Names poster
4.7

Joyce and Fred MacNeil's honeymoon comes to an abrupt and unsatisfying halt when Fred is accused of murder. Railroaded into prison through the efforts of politically ambitious assistant DA Marlin, Fred awaits his doom on Death Row, while Joyce works overtime on the outside to clear her husband's name

Women Without Names

1940

Let Not Man Put Asunder poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Let Not Man Put Asunder

1924

Love Affair poster
5.7

Heiress learns to fly from aeronautical engineer. Things get complicated as their affair progresses.

Love Affair

1932

The Man from Yesterday poster
5.2

A woman whose husband never came home from World War I finds herself in love with her doctor. She travels with him to Switzerland, and as they check into the hotel there, she is astounded to see her supposedly dead husband.

The Man from Yesterday

1932

No artwork available
10.0

Louis le Roy a.k.a. Monsieur le Fox, a trapper, is accused of stealing from gold diggers. Alternate-language version of Men of the North (1930).

Monsieur Le Fox

1931

Scotland Yard poster
7.0

A criminal fleeing a bank robbery has a chance encounter with a banker and his wife and takes a locket with both their pictures in it as a remembrance of the wife's stunning beauty. After enlisting for WWI to escape prosecution, his face is disfigured in combat, and plastic surgeons mistakenly give him the banker's face. As the banker is conveniently MIA, it gives the criminal the opportunity to plan a bank heist from the inside and also to get closer to the banker's wife.

Scotland Yard

1930