Barbara Leonard

Acting

Barbara Leonard

Born — Died

1908-01-09 — 1971-07-02

Place of birth

San Francisco, California, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

34 titles

Known for

Film credits

1930s · 27 titles

The Merry Widow poster
6.8

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

The Merry Widow

1934

City Streets poster
6.3

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

City Streets

1931

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

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

Desirable poster
7.2

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

Desirable

1934

Folies Bergère de Paris poster
6.0

An impersonates look-alike, causing confusion wife girlfriend.

Folies Bergère de Paris

1935

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

Men of the North poster
5.7

Part of a gold shipment has been stolen and the Sergeant suspects Louis LeBey. When Louis is attracted to newly arrived Nedra Ruskin, Woolie-Woolie becomes jealous and tells the Sergeant where Louis hid the gold. First Louis rescues the Sergeant whose dog team crashes chasing him and then he saves Nedra from an avalanche. When he returns the injured Nedra to the settlement, the Sergeant takes him prisoner.

Men of the North

1930

The White Angel poster
7.3

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

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

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

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

Beauty and the Boss poster
7.0

An ultra-efficient Plain Jane secretary blossoms when she accompanies her boss on a business trip to Paris.

Beauty and the Boss

1932

Son of the Gods poster
6.3

The popular Caucasian-looking son (Richard Barthelmess) of a wealthy Chinese businessman lives away from his widowed father and passes as white, but experiences prejudice, rejection, insult, and heartache when the socialite (Constance Bennett) he loves learns of his heritage.

Son of the Gods

1930

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

The Crash poster
5.5

Linda Gault, the luxurious wife of a Wall Street loser, eyes an Australian sheep rancher in Bermuda.

The Crash

1932

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

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

Bought! poster
8.0

Working-class girl dreams of living a better life and forsakes her friends when she has a chance to break into high society.

Bought!

1931

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

Folies Bergère poster
10.0

Alternate-language French version of Folies Bergère de Paris (1935).

Folies Bergère

1935

Love Affair poster
5.7

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

Love Affair

1932

One Romantic Night poster
6.2

A princess is forced to choose between a charming tutor and a rakish prince.

One Romantic Night

1930

Plumber in Love poster
9.0

Paris plumber Elmer Tuttle is enlisted by socialite Patricia Alden to help make her lover Tony Lagorce jealous. With the help of his friend Julius J. McCracken and through the high society contacts he has made through Patricia, Elmer hopes to find financing for his latest invention, a pistol with a range-finding light. Comic complications ensue when Elmer’s effort to interest a military leader is misconstrued as an assassination attempt. (A French-language remake of the earlier film The Passionate Plumber.)

Plumber in Love

1932

She Who Gets Slapped poster
8.0

A meek husband takes lessons on how to take control of his dominating wife.

She Who Gets Slapped

1930

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

Surprise poster
1.0

Tom Dugan trying to go on a date behind his wife's back gets a surprise.

Surprise

1930

1920s · 6 titles