Connie Leon

Connie Leon

Born: January 1, 1881
Died: May 10, 1955
in Cheshire, England, UK
Connie Leon was an English-born actress in American films who throughout her career typically appeared in small uncredited parts.

Movies for Connie Leon...

Moss Rose
Title: Moss Rose
Character: Seamstress (uncredited)
Released: May 30, 1947
Type: Movie
When a music-hall dancer is murdered, a moss rose marks the page of a Bible next to her body. Luckily, another chorus girl saw a gentleman leaving the lodgings. She approaches him directly, saying she'll go to the police if he doesn't meet her demands, but he brushes her off contemptuously. When he learns she's dead serious, he tries to buy her off with a thick wad of pound notes. But it's not money she's after; all she wants is two weeks at his country estate, living the life of a lady.
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Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman
Title: Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman
Character: Mary (uncredited)
Released: March 1, 1947
Type: Movie
A nightclub singer uses alcohol in excess to sooth her painful life.
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That Brennan Girl
Title: That Brennan Girl
Character: Miss Jane, Merryman Resident
Released: December 23, 1946
Type: Movie
Raised by Natalie Brennan, a flamboyant and irresponsible mother, Ziggy Brennan gets involved in hustling men at a young age. She hangs around with a wild crowd and learns gets her "street smarts" first from her mother, who wants everyone to think they are sisters, and then from Denny Reagan, an older man. He starts teaching her his tricks of the trade and she falls right in line with his crooked ways. Then one night she meets Martin J. 'Mart' Neilson, a tall, handsome, honest farmer boy who's a sailor and they fall in love. While he's away fighting the war, she discovers she's pregnant.
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Three Strangers
Title: Three Strangers
Character: Flower Woman
Released: January 28, 1946
Type: Movie
On the eve of the Chinese New Year, three strangers, Crystal Shackleford, married to a wealthy philanderer; Jerome Artbutny, an outwardly respectable judge; and Johnny West, a seedy sneak thief, make a pact before a small statue of the Chinese goddess of Destiny. The threesome agree to purchase a sweepstakes ticket and share whatever winnings might accrue.
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A Bell for Adano
Title: A Bell for Adano
Character: Italian Woman
Released: June 21, 1945
Type: Movie
Major Joppolo and his men are assigned to restore order to the war-torn Italian town of Adano. He has to manage getting supplies into town without interfering with troop movements, all the while dealing with colorful citizens of the town. One of his quests is to replace the bell which orders the town's life.
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The Brighton Strangler
Title: The Brighton Strangler
Character: Mrs. Clive (Uncredited)
Released: May 10, 1945
Type: Movie
After suffering a head injury during the Blitz, John Loder, a theatre actor comes to believe himself to be the Brighton Strangler, the murderer he was playing onstage.
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Hangover Square
Title: Hangover Square
Released: February 7, 1945
Type: Movie
When composer George Harvey Bone wakes with no memory of the previous night and a bloody knife in his pocket, he worries that he has committed a crime. On the advice of Dr. Middleton, Bone agrees to relax, going to a music performance by singer Netta Longdon. Riveted by Netta, Bone agrees to write songs for her rather than his own concerto. However, Bone soon grows jealous of Netta and worries about controlling himself during his spells.
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Reckless Age
Title: Reckless Age
Character: Old Lady
Released: August 1, 1944
Type: Movie
Linda Wadsworth rebels against her millionaire grandfather, J. H. Wadsworth, and runs away from home. Unknown to Mr. Wadsworth, she gets a job at one of his many five-and-ten-cents stores as a clerk.
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Ministry of Fear
Title: Ministry of Fear
Character: lady Purchaser of Cake (uncredited)
Released: May 19, 1944
Type: Movie
Stephen Neale is released into WWII England after two years in an asylum, but it doesn't seem so sane outside either. On his way back to London to rejoin civilization, he stumbles across a murderous spy ring and doesn't quite know to whom to turn.
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Going My Way
Title: Going My Way
Character: Mrs. Quimp's Neighbor (uncredited)
Released: May 15, 1944
Type: Movie
Youthful Father Chuck O'Malley led a colorful life of sports, song, and romance before joining the Roman Catholic clergy. After being appointed to a run-down New York parish, O'Malley's worldly knowledge helps him connect with a gang of boys looking for direction, eventually winning over the aging, conventional Parish priest.
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Uncertain Glory
Title: Uncertain Glory
Released: April 7, 1944
Type: Movie
In occupied France, a convicted thief and murderer escapes the guillotine when a bombing raid strikes the prison, but is quickly re-captured by the inspector of the Surete responsible for his original arrest. Fearing the guillotine more than his actual death, the convict inveigles the inspector to help him with a plan to rescue 100 Frenchmen taken by the Gestapo following an act of sabotage: he will confess to being the saboteur and allow himself to be executed by firing squad, the Gestapo's method of execution, thus freeing the 100 men.
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Behind the Rising Sun
Title: Behind the Rising Sun
Character: Tama's Mother
Released: August 1, 1943
Type: Movie
A Japanese publisher urges his American-educated son to side with the Axis.
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The Moon Is Down
Title: The Moon Is Down
Character: Villager (uncredited)
Released: March 14, 1943
Type: Movie
The story of a small town in Norway that resists German occupation during World War II. Based on a John Steinbeck novel.
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Forever and a Day
Title: Forever and a Day
Character: Wartime Londoner
Released: January 21, 1943
Type: Movie
In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, tries to dissuade him from selling by telling him the 140-year history of the place and the connections between the Trimble and Pomfret families.
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Cat People
Title: Cat People
Character: Neighbor Calling the Police (uncredited)
Released: December 5, 1942
Type: Movie
A Serbian émigré in Manhattan believes that, because of an ancient curse, any physical intimacy with the man she loves will turn her into a feline predator.
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Mrs. Miniver
Title: Mrs. Miniver
Character: Simpson
Released: July 3, 1942
Type: Movie
Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charming granddaughter of the local nobility as represented by Lady Beldon. Then the war comes and Vin joins the RAF.
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The Incredible Stranger
Title: The Incredible Stranger
Character: Lib Smith (uncredited)
Released: June 20, 1942
Type: Movie
In December 1892, a silent mysterious and very private man, for whom a new house has just been built, arrives in the small town of Bridgewood to keep a promise.
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Bombs Over Burma
Title: Bombs Over Burma
Character: Ma Sing
Released: June 5, 1942
Type: Movie
The film tells the story of Chinese guerrillas fighting for the Allied cause in Burma during Early in World War II, Chungking schoolteacher Lin Yang is recruited to help with the dangerous mission of protecting the Allied supply line from Burma into China. In spite of the danger involved, her determination to help is strengthened when one of her young students is killed in a Japanese air raid. Some time later, she is part of a group of Allied representatives departing from Lashio, on a bus traveling the Burma Road back to China. A bridge outage forces them to spend the night in a monastery along the way, and during the night they watch in horror as a supply convoy of trucks is bombed by Japanese planes. The timing and accuracy of the raid brings them to realize that either one of their group, or perhaps the priest in the monastery, is really an enemy agent
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Bombay Clipper
Title: Bombay Clipper
Character: Chambermaid
Released: January 11, 1942
Type: Movie
Someone has absconded with $4,000,000 worth of diamonds, and that someone may very well be a passenger on the Bombay Clipper.
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The Wolf Man
Title: The Wolf Man
Character: Mrs. Wykes (uncredited)
Released: December 12, 1941
Type: Movie
After his brother's death, Larry Talbot returns home to his father and the family estate. Events soon take a turn for the worse when Larry is bitten by a werewolf.
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Singapore Woman
Title: Singapore Woman
Character: Suwa
Released: May 17, 1941
Type: Movie
A fallen woman seeks redemption at a Singapore rubber plantation. Melodrama.
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Where Did You Get That Girl?
Title: Where Did You Get That Girl?
Character: Housewife
Released: January 3, 1941
Type: Movie
In this musical comedy, a motley band of musicians have only their extreme poverty in common. They end up writing a hit and getting a recording contract. The trouble is, the composer's works are never played without another band member doctoring them up to make them swingier. Fortunately, the composer isn't too averse to the changes as he has just won the heart of the beauty who sings his revamped songs.
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The Westerner
Title: The Westerner
Character: Lily Langtry's Maid (uncredited)
Released: September 18, 1940
Type: Movie
Drifter Cole Harden is accused of stealing a horse and faces hanging by self-appointed Judge Roy Bean, but Harden manages to talk his way out of it by claiming to be a friend of stage star Lillie Langtry, with whom the judge is obsessed, even though he has never met her. Tensions rise when Harden comes to the defense of a group of struggling homesteaders who Judge Bean is trying to drive away.
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My Son, My Son!
Title: My Son, My Son!
Character: Second Landlady
Released: March 21, 1940
Type: Movie
A self-made success is determined to give his son the lavish upbringing he himself was denied. Not surprisingly, the son grows up to be spoiled rotten, causing grief and pain to everyone who loves him.
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The Light That Failed
Title: The Light That Failed
Character: Flower Woman
Released: December 24, 1939
Type: Movie
A London artist struggles to complete one last painting before going blind.
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We Are Not Alone
Title: We Are Not Alone
Character: Mrs. Hart - Cockney Patient
Released: November 25, 1939
Type: Movie
A British doctor and his son's Austrian governess have an affair and are accused of killing his wife.
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Honeymoon in Bali
Title: Honeymoon in Bali
Character: Bill's Housekeeper (uncredited)
Released: September 29, 1939
Type: Movie
Bill Burnett, a resident of Bali, visits New York City, meets and falls in love with Gail Allen, the successful manager of a Fifth Avenue shop, who is determined to remain free and independent. Bill proposes, Gail declines and Bill goes home to Bali. But a young girl, Rosie, and Tony the Window Cleaner, who dispels advice on every floor, soon have Gail thinking maybe she was a bit hasty with her no to Bill's proposal. Ere long she discovers that she does love Bill and can't live without him. She goes down to Bali to give him the good news. He learns that he is soon to marry Noel Van Ness. She goes back to New York City.
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The Rains Came
Title: The Rains Came
Character: Nurse (uncredited)
Released: September 15, 1939
Type: Movie
Indian aristocrat Rama Safti returns from medical training in the U.S. to give his life to the poor folk of Ranchipur. Lady Edwina and her drunken artist ex-lover Tom Ransome get in the way, but everyone shapes up when faced by earthquake, flooding, and plague.
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A Feather in Her Hat
Title: A Feather in Her Hat
Character: Woman (uncredited)
Released: October 25, 1935
Type: Movie
After the woman who raised him claims he's not her son, Richard searches for clues about his identity. Urged on by his mentor, Capt. Randolph Courtney, Richard focuses on Julia Trent Anders, a middle-aged actress who just might be his real mother. But soon, Richard begins to fall for Julia's stepdaughter. Amidst the upheaval, Richard schemes to return Julia to the stage -- but he's in for another big surprise.
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Werewolf of London
Title: Werewolf of London
Character: Yogami's Housekeeper Millie (uncredited)
Released: May 13, 1935
Type: Movie
A strange animal attack turns a botanist into a bloodthirsty monster.
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One More River
Title: One More River
Character: Flower Woman (Uncredited)
Released: August 6, 1934
Type: Movie
A young lady leaves her brutal husband and meets another man on board a ship.