Joan Leslie: Classic Hollywood star who was true to herself

Joan Leslie was a darling and talented star who radiated refreshing innocence. But she was no ingénue. Rather she embodied a simple yet multilayered high moral character. As Velma Goodhue in High Sierra (1941), she played a young working-class girl with disability; hardened criminal Roy Earle, played by Humphrey Bogart, befriends her. Earle pays for an operation to Read More… Joan Leslie: Classic Hollywood star who was true to herself