Andrea Leeds: Andrea Leeds. Actress: Stage Door. She made only a handful of films within a span of four years (1936-1940), but gentle, soulful-eyed Andrea Leeds touched hearts with those few, culminating in an Oscar-nomination for Best Supporting Actress as the sensitive, aspiring young actress who doesn't survive the school of hard knocks in the 1937 movie version of Edna Ferber-George S. Kaufman's serio-comic play Stage Door (1937). Andrea was born in Butte,...
Known For: Stage Door (Kay Hamilton), Swanee River (Jane McDowell Foster), The Goldwyn Follies (Hazel Dawes), It Could Happen to You (Laura Compton)