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Irene Ware

Irene appeared in 29 films between 1932-1940, and is mostly remembered for her roles as Princess Nadji in Chandu the Magician (1932) with Edmund Lowe and Bela Lugosi, and as Boris Karloff's and Lugosi's leading lady in 1935's The Raven.

Kathleen Crowley

Crowley was frequently confused with Patricia "Pat" Crowley, an actress who appeared as a leading lady in different episodes of many of the same television series but was no relation.

Leading man

Less frequently, the epithet has been applied to an actor who is often associated with one particular actress, for example, Errol Flynn was Olivia de Havilland's leading man in several films, Spencer Tracy had a similar association with Katharine Hepburn; used in this sense, however, the woman is usually described as the leading lady of the man.


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A Piñata Named Desire

Back home Roger taunts Stan over his failure and Stan finally admits that he can't act, with Roger recommending an acting coach (who, as Stan correctly predicts, is another of Roger's personas.) Stan shows progress by acting out a scene from WarGames, but refuses to perform the love scene with Roger as the "leading lady".

Adele Mara

Mara was married to television writer/producer Roy Huggins and appeared as the leading lady in three episodes of his 1957 television series Maverick, including "Seed of Deception" in the first season (available on DVD), "The Spanish Dancer" in the second season, and "The Marquessa" in the third season.

Amorcito Corazón

It stars Elizabeth Álvarez, Diego Olivera, Africa Zavala, and Daniel Arenas, involving Fabiola Campomanes, Gerardo Murguia and Macaria as the main villains and stellar performances by the leading lady Mariana Karr, and Grettell Valdez.

Andra Martin

She was James Garner's leading lady in the 1959 movie Up Periscope, and the daughter/secretary on the Perry Mason TV-series episode "The Case of the Prodigal Parent".

Apurva Asrani

The film received a lukewarm box office response and was panned by critics but is remembered for its leading lady - the former Baywatch actress - Brande Roderick.

Asha Sachdev

Asha was an alumna of the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune and joined Bollywood with the passion to make it as a leading lady.

Barbara O'Neil

In July 1931 Bretaigne Windust, Charles Leatherbee (the grandson of Charles Richard Crane), and Joshua Logan, the three directors of the University Players, a three-year old summer stock company at West Falmouth on Cape Cod, were looking for a leading lady for their repertory season that winter in Baltimore.

Brenda Marshall

The following year, she played the leading lady to Errol Flynn in The Sea Hawk.

Burt Nodella

He later had a relationship with the show's leading lady, actress Barbara Feldon.

Down Mexico Way

Between 1941 and 1942, Fay McKenzie appeared as the leading lady in five Gene Autry films: Down Mexico Way (1941), Sierra Sue (1941), Cowboy Serenade (1942), Heart of the Rio Grande (1942), and Home in Wyomin (1942).

Elizabeth A. Davis

Elizabeth is best known for creating the role of Réza, the Czech roommate of leading lady Cristin Milioti in Once, a stage musical version of the Academy Award winning film Once.

George K. Hollister

Traveling to Ireland with Olcott's crew that included leading lady and principal screenwriter, Gene Gauntier, and actor Robert Vignola, George Hollister shot The Lad From Old Ireland plus a number of film shorts in Blarney Castle, Glengarriff and at the Lakes of Killarney.

Georges Renavent

East of Borneo went on to achieve latter-day fame when avant-garde filmmaker Joseph Cornell spliced together all of the leading lady's close-ups, and came up with a surrealistic exercise titled Rose Hobart (1936).

Hedvig Raa-Winterhjelm

Many of the actors was given a contract in the new theatre, but the competition with Sweden's leading lady Elise Jakobsson-Hwasser made Hedvig move to Finland, where she accepted a position at the Swedish Theatre in Helsinki.

Jane Greenwood

Henry Hewes Design Award, (costume design) Our Leading Lady (2007)

Jules Brulatour

In fact, its first leading lady, Dorothy Gibson, already well known as a model for leading illustrator Harrison Fisher, not only became a big star in Eclair vehicles but she landed the married Brulatour as a boyfriend.

June Lang

June Lang first married her agent, Victor Orsatti, in 1937 (divorced 1938), but her reputation as a wholesome leading lady was tarnished when she married Johnny Roselli, a reputed mobster, April 1, 1940 (divorced March 1943).

Kathleen Burke

This success led to more than a score of screen appearances over the following six years, most notably as the leading lady in The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935) opposite Gary Cooper, and The Last Outpost with Cary Grant that same year.

Lee Kwang-soo

Lee Kwang-soo was also chosen as one of KARA's Leading Men on the Television Drama (Mini-Series) "Secret Love" will be alongside Jung Nicole of KARA as his leading lady, Secret Love will be aired on Chuseok Festival: Thanksgiving Day in September on KBS2.

Liliane Montevecchi

In the mid-1950s, she was signed to a contract by MGM, which cast her in secondary roles in such films as The Glass Slipper and Daddy Long Legs, in both of which she was overshadowed by leading lady Leslie Caron, the Jerry Lewis vehicle The Sad Sack, and King Creole with Elvis Presley.

Mary Kornman

After Peggy Cartwright, who appeared in only four or five Our Gang episodes, Mary became the leading lady of the series, appearing in more than 40 episodes.

Megumi Kudo

In 1992 she released a music CD titled "Keep On Running"; that same year, she was the leading lady in the action film, A Human Murder Weapon.

Melody Trail

Following her leading lady role in Melody Trail, Rutherford would go on to appear in three more Gene Autry films: The Singing Vagabond (1935), Comin' Round the Mountain (1936), and Public Cowboy No. 1 (1937).

Nita Talbot

Talbot was a leading lady who spent the first decade or so of her career playing "slick chicks" and sharp-witted career girls, but is perhaps best known for her role as Marya, the "White Russian" spy in the 1960s sitcom Hogan's Heroes, as well as Sheila Fine in the sitcom Soap.

Pakhi Hegde

Where Pakhi plays leading lady in this film, with Sayaji Shinde & Mahesh Manjrekarin supporting cast.

Pan Ron

Ros Sereysothea's debut in 1967 had little effect on Pan's career and perhaps even broadened Pan Ron's popularity as the second leading lady of music.

Pat Crowley

Crowley was often confused with her acting contemporary Kathleen Crowley, who appeared as the guest leading lady in different episodes of most of the same television series.

Poison Arrow

In the music video, Martin Fry plays three roles — as a haughty upper-class opera patron, as a messenger boy at the opera, and as a bandleader at a 1960s-style swinging nightspot — and, in all three roles, unsuccessfully attempts to woo the leading lady, played by Lisa Vanderpump, later of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.

Rochelle Pangilinan

In that same year, Pangilinan starred (without her group) in the movie Bertud ng Putik, where she was the leading lady of Bong Revilla, and rival to the character played by Regine Tolentino.

Sleepwalking scene

John Philip Kemble's 1794 Drury Lane production starred his leading lady and sister Sarah Siddons who offered a fiercely psychological portrait of Lady Macbeth.

Thelma Hill

Hill starred opposite Ben Turpin in The Prodigal Bridegroom and from 1927 to 1929 with Bud Duncan in Larry Darmour's series of silent comedy shorts Toots and Casper and was Laurel & Hardy's leading lady in 1928's Two Tars.

Under Fiesta Stars

Under Fiesta Stars was the third Gene Autry film featuring leading lady Carol Hughes, preceded by Gold Mine in the Sky (1938) and Man from Music Mountain (1938).

Violet Vanbrugh

In 1893, she appeared opposite her husband Arthur Bourchier at Daly's Theatre and soon became his leading leading lady at the Royalty Theatre and then at the Garrick Theatre, where Bourchier was lessee for the first six years of the 20th century.