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Actor Born: November 7, 1896 in New Orleans, LA Death: May 13, 1985 in Riverdale, NY Biography:Trained as an actress in Southern and Midwestern stock companies, the lovely "Leatrice Joy" entered films as an extra in 1915. Her first break was as the leading lady in the 2-reel comedies starring Chaplin imitator "Billy West", wherein she was often menaced by top-hatted villain "Oliver Hardy". During the early 1920s, Joy was under contract to "Cecil B. DeMille", starring in such extravaganzas as "Manslaughter" (1922) and "The Ten Commandments" (1923); she later would recall that the plots of these films were corny in the extreme and that DeMille could be a merciless martinet, but that she was grateful to the director for the salutary effect he had on her career. In most of her silent appearances, Joy was something of a forerunner to "Rosalind Russell": the fashionable businesswoman or stuck-up society girl who is eventually "tamed" by the handsome leading man. After appearing in two talkies, Joy... Full Biography
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