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Leila Hyams is a Actor American born on 1 may 1905 at New York City (USA)

Leila Hyams

Leila Hyams
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Nationality USA
Birth 1 may 1905 at New York City (USA)
Death 4 december 1977 (at 72 years) at Bel Air (USA)

Leila Hyams (May 1, 1905 – December 4, 1977) was an American model, vaudeville and film actress. Her relatively short film career began in the 20's silent films, and ended in 1936 and although only lasted around 10 years, she appeared in more than 50 film roles.

Biography

After ten years and fifty films, Hyams retired from acting in 1936, but remained part of the Hollywood community for the rest of her life. She was married to agent Phil Berg from 1927 until her death in the Bel-Air neighborhood of Los Angeles, California in 1977, aged 72.

Best films

The Big House
The Big House
(1930)
(Actress)

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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Leila Hyams (42 films)

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Actress

Ruggles of Red Gap
Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)
, 1h30
Directed by Leo McCarey
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about the labor movement
Actors Charles Laughton, Mary Boland, Charles Ruggles, Lucien Littlefield, Zasu Pitts, Roland Young
Roles Nell Kenner
Rating75% 3.7930453.7930453.7930453.7930453.793045
In 1908 the Earl of Burnstead (Roland Young) gambles away his eminently correct English manservant, Marmaduke Ruggles (Charles Laughton). Ruggles' new masters, crude nouveau riche American millionaires Egbert and Effie Floud (Charlie Ruggles and Mary Boland), bring Ruggles back to Red Gap, Washington, a remote Western boomtown. When Ruggles is mistaken for a wealthy retired Englishman colonel, he becomes a celebrity in the small town. As Ruggles attempts to adjust to his rough new community, he learns to live life on his own terms, achieving a fulfilling independence as a result.
$1,000 a Minute
$1,000 a Minute (1935)
, 1h10
Directed by Aubrey Scotto
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Roger Pryor, Leila Hyams, Edward Brophy, Sterling Holloway, Edgar Kennedy, Purnell Pratt
Roles Dorothy Summers
Rating63% 3.1771053.1771053.1771053.1771053.177105
A broken and pennyless newspaperman takes part in an experiment where two crazy millionaires are offering a prize of $10,000 to anyone that can spend $1,000 a minute, every minute, for 12 hours straight.
Sing, Sinner, Sing
Sing, Sinner, Sing (1933)
, 1h14
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Musical, Romance
Actors Paul Lukas, Leila Hyams, Don Dillaway, Ruth Donnelly, George E. Stone, Joyce Compton
Roles Lela Larson
Rating58% 2.9127352.9127352.9127352.9127352.912735
Leila Hyams plays a singer who is accused of her husband's murder. At the time the movie was released, it was recognized as being loosely based on the 1932 Libby Holman-Zachary Smith Reynolds case.
Saturday's Millions
Saturday's Millions (1933)
, 1h15
Directed by Edward Sedgwick
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Sports films, American football films
Actors Robert Young, Andy Devine, Leila Hyams, John Mack Brown, Grant Mitchell, Mary Carlisle
Roles Joan Chandler
Rating61% 3.086283.086283.086283.086283.08628
Jim Fowler is Western University's football hero and is constantly besieged by reporters. Jim's father Ezra comes to visit him and becomes reacquainted with an old Western football chum, Mr. Chandler, who happens to be the father of Jim's girlfriend Joan. Jim keeps his roommate, Andy, busy by sending him to collect money on their laundry concessions business, even though Andy is desperately trying to meet his girlfriend Thelma, who has just come for a visit. When the coach tells Chandler and Fowler that Jim is nervous and erratic, Chandler invites Jim to spend the night before the big game at his home.
Freaks
Freaks (1932)
, 1h4
Directed by Tod Browning
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantastic, Horror
Themes Circus films, Medical-themed films, Films about disabilities
Actors Wallace Ford, Edgar Allan Woolf, Leila Hyams, Olga Baclanova, Roscoe Ates, Harry Earles
Roles Venus
Rating77% 3.8996753.8996753.8996753.8996753.899675
The film opens with a sideshow barker drawing customers to visit the sideshow. A woman looks into a box to view a hidden occupant and screams. The barker explains that the horror in the box was once a beautiful and talented trapeze artist. The central story is of this conniving trapeze artist Cleopatra, who seduces and marries sideshow midget Hans after learning of his large inheritance. Cleopatra conspires with circus strongman Hercules to kill Hans and inherit his wealth. At their wedding reception, Cleopatra begins poisoning Hans' wine. Oblivious, the other "freaks" announce that they accept Cleopatra in spite of her being a "normal" outsider: they hold an initiation ceremony in which they pass a massive goblet of wine around the table while chanting, "We accept her, we accept her. One of us, one of us. Gooba-gobble, gooba-gobble". The ceremony frightens the drunken Cleopatra, who accidentally reveals that she has been having an affair with Hercules. She mocks the freaks, tosses the wine in their faces and drives them away. The humiliated Hans realizes that he's been played for a fool and rejects Cleopatra's attempts to apologize, but then he falls ill from the poison.
Red-Headed Woman
Red-Headed Woman (1932)
, 1h19
Directed by Jack Conway
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Jean Harlow, Chester Morris, Lewis Stone, Charles Boyer, Mae Clarke, Leila Hyams
Roles Irene 'Rene' Legendre
Rating69% 3.495853.495853.495853.495853.49585
Lilian 'Lil' Andrews (Harlow) is a young woman who will do anything to improve herself. She seduces her wealthy boss William 'Bill' Legendre Jr. (Chester Morris) and cleverly breaks up his marriage with his loving wife Irene (Leila Hyams). Irene reconsiders and tries to reconcile with Bill, only to find he has married Lil the previous day.
The Big Broadcast
The Big Broadcast (1932)
, 1h20
Directed by Frank Tuttle
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Bing Crosby, Stuart Erwin, Leila Hyams, George Burns, George Barbier, Gracie Allen
Roles Anita Rogers
Rating65% 3.2902953.2902953.2902953.2902953.290295
Radio-singer Bing Crosby is not very serious about his career. His chronic tardiness and his affair with the notorious Mona Lowe (Sharon Lynn) has become an issue at station WADX. After Mona cheats on him, the despondent singer meets Texas oil man Leslie McWhinney (Stuart Erwin), who has also been wronged by a woman.
Island of Lost Souls
Island of Lost Souls (1932)
, 1h10
Directed by Erle C. Kenton
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Adventure, Horror
Themes Films about computing, Seafaring films, Transport films, Films based on science fiction novels, Cyberpunk films
Actors Charles Laughton, Richard Arlen, Leila Hyams, Bela Lugosi, Kathleen Burke, Stanley Fields
Roles Ruth Thomas
Rating73% 3.6937853.6937853.6937853.6937853.693785
Shipwrecked traveler Edward Parker (Richard Arlen) is rescued by a freighter delivering animals to an isolated South Seas island owned by Dr. Moreau (Charles Laughton). When Parker objects to the freighter's captain (Stanley Fields) mistreating M'ling (Tetsu Komai), an odd-looking passenger, the captain tosses Parker overboard into Montgomery (Arthur Hohl) and Moreau's boat.
Surrender
Surrender (1931)
, 1h9
Directed by William K. Howard
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Warner Baxter, Leila Hyams, Ralph Bellamy, C. Aubrey Smith, Alexander Kirkland, Bodil Rosing
Roles Axelle von Meirbach
Rating60% 3.043823.043823.043823.043823.04382
During World War I, the wily and attractive French POW Sergeant Dumaine is sequestered in a prison camp near the castle of a prideful Prussian nobleman and military general, Count Reichendorf, who lives for the day that his four sons will march triumphantly into Paris. Having lost three sons to the French and English armies, and left with only one son, Dietrich, Reichendorf laments the days when his family made Prussia "the might of land." He is forced to recruit military men from the prison camp. Axelle, the daughter of one of the sons, who became his ward when her parents died, lives in the Reichendorf castle and makes periodic goodwill visits to the prison compound, where she first encounters Dumaine. Captain Ebbing, the martinet and disfigured prison commandant, develops an interest in Axtelle. He courts her, but Axelle shows little interest in him, and when he reminds her how he dazzled her before he went into battle, she rejects his affections and tells him that she is engaged to Dietrich. Ebbing pleads with her, insisting that his love for her is more intense and enduring than that of any other man, but she is not swayed.