Leah Baird
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File:Leah Baird Stars of the Photoplay.jpg
Publicity photo of Baird from Stars of the Photoplay (1916)
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Born | Champaign, Illinois, U.S. |
June 20, 1883
Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
Resting place | Hollywood Forever Cemetery |
Years active | 1910-1957 |
Spouse(s) | Arthur F. Beck (m.1914–?) |
Leah Baird (June 20, 1883 – October 3, 1971) was an American actress of the silent screen, and a screenwriter.
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Life
She began her film career in 1910 in Jean and the Waif opposite Jean, the Vitagraph Dog. She played several leads in William F. Brady's troupe, opposite Douglas Fairbanks. In the late 1910s she played in 15 episodes of the serial Wolves of Kultur. Baird wrote and produced film during the 1920s.[1]
Baird later became a screenwriter and contributed to a number of Clara Bow features. She was married to producer Arthur F. Beck.
Partial filmography
Actress
- Jean and the Waif (1910)
- Chumps (1912)
- A Cure for Pokeritis (1912)
- All for a Girl (1912)
- Hearts of the First Empire (1913)
- Ivanhoe (1913)
- Absinthe (1914)
- Neptune's Daughter (1914)
- Lights of New York (1916)
- One Law for Both (1917)
- The Echo of Youth (1919)
- Is Divorce A Failure? (1923)
- Lady Gangster (1942)
- Air Force (1943)
- The Adventures of Mark Twain (Uncredited, 1944)
- Mildred Pierce (Uncredited, 1945)
- Shadow of a Woman (1946)
- Around the World in Eighty Days (Uncredited, 1956)
Writer
- The Dawning (1912)
- Devil's Island (1926)
- Spangles (1926)
- The Return of Boston Blackie (1927)
- Jungle Bride (1933)
Producer
- Shadow of the Law (1926)
References
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External links
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- Leah Baird on Women Film Pioneers Project
- Leah Baird at the Internet Movie Database
- Leah Baird at AllMovie
- Leah Baird at Find a Grave
- Leah Baird gallery at NY Public Library
- Leah Baird early studio portrait
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- American silent film actresses
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- Actresses from Chicago, Illinois
- Burials at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
- Warner Bros. contract players
- 1883 births
- 1971 deaths
- 20th-century American actresses
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