:Ethelreda Leopold
{{short description|American actress (1914–1998)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Ethelreda Leopold
| image = Ethelreda Leopold in Bluebeard (1944) (cropped).jpg
| image_size =
| caption = Leopold in Bluebeard (1944)
| birth_name = Ethel Reda Leopold
| birth_date = {{birth date|1914|7|2|mf=y}}
| birth_place = Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
| death_date = {{death date and age|1998|1|26|1914|7|2}}
| death_place = North Hollywood, California, U.S.
| other_names = Ethel Leopold
| occupation = Actress
| years_active = 1934–1989
| spouse = {{marriage|Joseph Pine|1938|1986|reason=d}}
| children = 1
}}
Ethelreda Leopold (July 2, 1914{{spaced ndash}}January 26, 1998) was an American film actress. She appeared credited in approximately 65 films between 1934 and 1972. She also appeared in commercials.{{Cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-feb-12-mn-18393-story.html |title=Ethelreda Leopold; Exemplar of the Busby Berkeley Girl |last=Oliver |first=Myrna |date=1998-02-12 |work=Los Angeles Times |access-date=2017-06-26 |language=en-US |issn=0458-3035}}
Leopold is familiar to modern viewers for her roles in several Three Stooges, Andy Hardy, and Abbott and Costello films. She also had bit parts in such American classics as Angels Over Broadway and Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator, and supported other celebrated film comedians such as Harold Lloyd and Laurel and Hardy.
Many of her film roles were small or uncredited. She appeared at the 1990 Three Stooges convention.{{cite journal |title=A Biography of Ethelreda Leopold |first=Steve |last=Randisi |pages=8-9 |url=https://www.threestooges.net/journal/view/55 |journal=The Three Stooges Journal |volume=55 |date=Fall 1990}}
Biography
Leopold was from Chicago and could play piano and draw. She went to St. Ignatius grammar school and Sullivan High School.{{cite news |last1=Sullivan |first1=Ed |author-link1=Ed Sullivan |title=Looking at Hollywood |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/123069515/chicago-tribune/ |access-date=April 18, 2023 |work=Chicago Daily Tribune |date=May 17, 1938 |page=17 |via=Newspapers.com}} Leopold studied at the Chicago Art Institute for some time before she was discovered as an actress.{{Cite news |url=https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth812846/m1/3/ |title=She's Beautiful But Not So Dumb |date=17 January 1939 |work=Timpson Daily Times |access-date=26 June 2017 |volume=38 |issue=12 |edition=1st |page=3 |via=The Portal to Texas History}} She began acting at age 17 after a scout for Warner Brothers saw her "modeling teen-age fashions," according to The New York Times.{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/02/23/arts/ethelreda-leopold-movie-actress-80.html |title=Ethelreda Leopold, Movie Actress, 80 |date=1998-02-23 |work=The New York Times |agency=Associated Press |access-date=2017-06-26 |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}} The first film she was in was Dames, where she was part of the chorus line. She was the winner of a "popularity contest" for the group of 109 "Busby Berkeley" girls and became part of a promotional tour after she was filmed for Gold Diggers in Paris.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X19QCgAAQBAJ&q=%22ethelreda+leopold%22&pg=PA88 |title=Low Man on a Totem Pole |last=Smith |first=H. Allen |author-link=H. Allen Smith |publisher=Doubleday Doran |year=1941 |isbn=9781618868787 |pages=88–92}}{{Cite news |url=https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth525961/m1/3/?q=ethelreda+leopold |title=She's a Lucky 'Gold Digger' |date=19 May 1938 |work=The Shamrock Texan |access-date=26 June 2017 |via=The Portal to Texas History |volume=35 |issue=9 |edition=1st |page=3}} As part of the tour, H. Allen Smith took her vital measurements and wrote about her tour.
Leopold was married to Joseph Pine, they had a child together. She died in North Hollywood on January 26, 1998, from pneumonia.{{Cite news|url=https://variety.com/1998/film/news/ethelreda-leopold-dies-at-80-1117468002/|title=Ethelreda Leopold dies at 80|last=Galloway|first=Doug|date=1998-02-24|work=Variety|access-date=2017-06-26|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191109162218/https://variety.com/1998/film/news/ethelreda-leopold-dies-at-80-1117468002/ |archive-date=November 9, 2019}}
Filmography
| class="wikitable sortable"
! Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
| Broadway–Show
| 1934 | Chorus Girl | uncredited |
| A Lost Day
| 1934 | Blond Dancer | uncredited |
| And She Learned About Dames
| 1934 | Student | short film, uncredited |
| Devil Dogs of the Air
| 1935 | Adjutant's niece | uncredited |
| Gold Diggers of 1935
| 1935 | Chorus Girl | uncredited |
| Hot Paprika
| 1935 | Dr. Van Buren’s Nurse | short Film, uncredited |
| Half Shot Shooters
| 1936 | Woman in Crowd | short film, uncredited |
| The Peppery Salt
| 1936 | Blonde With Sailors | short film, uncredited |
| The Champ’s a Chump
| 1936 | Student | short film, uncredited |
| A Pain in the Pullman
| 1936 | Show Girl | short film, uncredited |
| My Man Godfrey
| 1936 | Socialite | uncredited |
| Stage Struck
| 1936 | Chorus Girl | uncredited |
| Am I Having Fun!
| 1936 | Second Socialite | short film, uncredited |
| Gold Diggers of 1937
| 1936 | Chorus girl | uncredited |
| Great Guy
| 1936 | Burton's Girlfriend | uncredited |
| Ready, Willing and Able
| 1937 | Blonde in Balcony at Show’s Opening | uncredited |
| Top of the Town
| 1937 | Chorus Girl | uncredited |
| Stuck in the Sticks
| 1937 | Woman Watching Apple Bobbing | short film |
| Marked Woman
| 1937 | Dancing Club Patron | uncredited |
| Back to the Woods
| 1937 | Hope | uncredited |
| Kid Galahad
| 1937 | Party Guest | uncredited |
| From Bad to Worse
| 1937 | Woman on Train | short film, uncredited |
| The Great Gambini
| 1937 | Undetermined Role | uncredited |
| Goofs and Saddles
| 1937 | Saloon Girl | short film, uncredited |
| Double or Nothing
| 1937 | Nightclub Patron | uncredited |
| Varsity Show
| 1937 | Chorus Girl | uncredited |
| Hollywood Hotel
| 1937 | Chorus Girl | uncredited |
| Midnight Intruder
| 1938 | Woman Waiting for Ship | uncredited |
| Wee Wee Monsieur
| 1938 | Harem Girl | short film, uncredited |
| Over the Wall
| 1938 | Scanlon's New Blonde Girlfriend | uncredited |
| Out Where the Stars Begin
| 1938 | Lover in Production Number | short film, uncredited |
| Gold Diggers in Paris
| 1938 | Blonde Golddigger | uncredited |
| The Rage of Paris
| 1938 | Nightclub Patron | uncredited |
| Sweethearts
| 1938 | Chorus Girl | uncredited |
| Trade Winds
| 1938 | Ethel | uncredited |
| Race Suicide
| 1938 | as Ethel Leopold | |
| You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
| 1939 | Blonde at Party | uncredited |
| I'll Tell the World
| 1939 | Secretary | short film |
| Society Lawyer
| 1939 | Blonde in Outer Law Office | uncredited |
| A Star Is Shorn
| 1939 | Hazel Hackenschmitt | short film |
| Rose of Washington Square
| 1939 | Blonde Well-Wisher at Cast Party | uncredited |
| Trouble Finds Andy Clyde
| 1939 | | short film |
| The Wizard of Oz
| 1939 | Emerald City Manicurist | uncredited |
| Mad Youth
| 1939 | Blonde Secretary | uncredited |
| Calling All Curs
| 1939 | Nurse | short film, uncredited |
| Dancing Co-Ed
| 1939 | Flapjack Waitress | uncredited |
| Beware Spooks!
| 1939 | Pretty Girl | uncredited |
| Andy Clyde Gets Spring Chicken
| 1939 | Extreme Blonde at Pool | short film |
| A Chump at Oxford
| 1939 | Bank Manager's Secretary | uncredited |
| I Take This Woman
| 1940 | Club Patron | uncredited |
| Alice in Movieland
| 1940 | Blonde Patron in Carlo’s | uncredited |
| The Big Premiere
| 1940 | Irma Acacia | short film |
| Nutty But Nice
| 1940 | Waitress | short film, uncredited |
| Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
| 1940 | Sirocco Club Dining Extra | uncredited |
| What's Your 'I.Q.'?': Number Two
| 1940 | The Average Blonde | short film, uncredited |
| He Stayed for Breakfast
| 1940 | Secretary | short film, uncredited |
| City for Conquest
| 1940 | Irene – Dressing Room Blonde | uncredited |
| Spring Parade
| 1940 | Townswoman | uncredited |
| Angels Over Broadway
| 1940 | Cigarette Girl | uncredited |
| The Great Dictator
| 1940 | Blonde Secretary | uncredited |
| No, No, Nanette
| 1940 | | uncredited |
| Misbehaving Husbands
| 1940 | Annette (model) | uncredited |
| Souls in Pawn
| 1940 | The Hitch-hiker | |
| Six Lessons from Madame La Zonga
| 1941 | Ship Passenger | uncredited |
| The Monster and the Girl
| 1941 | Party Girl | uncredited |
| All the World's a Stooge
| 1941 | Party Guest | short film, uncredited |
| Too Many Blondes
| 1941 | Secretary | uncredited |
| Kiss the Boys Goodbye
| 1941 | | uncredited |
| Wide Open Town
| 1941 | Saloon Girl | uncredited |
| In the Sweet Pie and Pie
| 1941 | Baska Jones | short film |
| Niagara Falls
| 1941 | Hotel Guest | uncredited |
| Hellzapoppin
| 1941 | Blonde Woman at Skeet Range | uncredited |
| Born to Sing
| 1942 | Audience member | uncredited |
| Ball of Fire
| 1942 | Audience member | uncredited |
| Black Dragons
| 1942 | Girl at Party | uncredited |
| A Gentleman After Dark
| 1942 | Blonde at Train Station | uncredited |
| Saboteur
| 1942 | Party Guest | uncredited |
| About Face
| 1942 | Platinum Blonde in Parking Lot | short film, uncredited |
| My Favorite Spy
| 1942 | Hotel Guest | uncredited |
| Olaf Laughs Last
| 1942 | Girl in Restaurant | short film |
| Matri-Phony
| 1942 | Miss Syracuse | short film, uncredited |
| Beautiful Clothes (Make Beautiful Girls)
| 1942 | Model | short film, uncredited |
| The Falcon Strikes Back
| 1943 | Hotel Guest | uncredited |
| Crazy House
| 1943 | Blonde Woman Watching Radio Talent Show | short film, uncredited |
| Gildersleeve on Broadway
| 1943 | Night Club Patron | uncredited |
| Never a Dull Moment
| 1943 | Night Club patron | uncredited |
| Where Are Your Children?
| 1943 | Girl Fighting Opal | uncredited |
| The Spider Woman
| 1943 | Casino Patron | uncredited |
| Pistol Packin' Mama
| 1943 | Casino Patron | uncredited |
| Voodoo Man
| 1943 | Kidnapped Girl | uncredited |
| Trocadero
| 1944 | Nightclub Patron | uncredited |
| Show Business
| 1944 | Blonde in Kelly’s Cafe | uncredited |
| A Night of Adventure
| 1944 | Nightclub Patron | uncredited |
| In Society
| 1944 | Winthrop Party Guest | uncredited |
| Moonlight and Cactus
| 1944 | Girl | uncredited |
| Bluebeard
| 1944 | Laughing Courtroom Spectator | uncredited |
| Hollywood Canteen
| 1944 | Hostess | uncredited |
| I'll Remember April
| 1945 | Singer at radio station | uncredited |
| Earl Carroll Vanities
| 1945 | Chorine | uncredited |
| Three’s a Crowd
| 1945 | Dancer | uncredited |
| Crime Doctor's Warning
| 1945 | Model | uncredited |
| George White's Scandals
| 1945 | Showgirl | uncredited |
| Cornered
| 1945 | Party Guest | uncredited |
| Deadline at Dawn
| 1945 | Blonde Dancer | uncredited |
| Little Giant
| 1946 | Information Receptionist | uncredited |
| A Night in Casablanca
| 1946 | Restaurant Patron | uncredited |
| G.I. Wanna Home
| 1946 | Jessie | short Film |
| Blue Skies
| 1946 | Nightclub Patron | uncredited |
| Humoresque
| 1946 | Party Guest | uncredited |
| Calendar Girl
| 1947 | Rosie O'Grady | uncredited |
| The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
| 1947 | Blonde | uncredited |
| A Likely Story
| 1947 | Artist | uncredited |
| That's My Man
| 1947 | Party Guest | uncredited |
| Lured
| 1947 | Blonde Nightclub Singer | uncredited |
| Heaven Only Knows
| 1947 | Saloon Girl | uncredited |
| Words and Music
| 1948 | 'On Your Toes’ Backstage Well-Wisher | uncredited |
| All About Eve
| 1950 | Sarah Siddons Awards Guest | uncredited |
| Hit Parade of 1951
| 1950 | Woman at dice table | uncredited |
| The Abbott and Costello Show
| 1953 | Blonde Housewife | TV series, uncredited |
| Hazel
| 1963 | Fundraiser Guest | TV series, uncredited |
| The Killers
| 1964 | Club Patron | uncredited |
| The Disorderly Orderly
| 1964 | Patient | uncredited |
| Bonanza
| 1964–1965 | Party Guest / Show Spectator | TV series, uncredited |
| Two on a Guillotine
| 1965 | Theatre Audience Member | uncredited |
| Marriage on the Rocks
| 1965 | Club Patron | uncredited |
| Harum Scarum
| 1964 | Premier Guest | uncredited |
| Batman
| 1966 | Observer Outside Club | TV series, uncredited |
| The Oscar
| 1966 | Club Patron | uncredited |
| Way... Way Out
| 1966 | Mrs. Soblova | uncredited |
| The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
| 1966 | Campaign Worker | TV series, uncredited |
| The Monkees
| 1966 | Customer | TV series, uncredited |
| Fitzwilly
| 1966 | Wedding Guest | TV series, uncredited |
| Hillbillys in a Haunted House
| 1967 | Audience Member | uncredited |
| That Girl
| 1967–1968 | Party Guest / Restaurant Patron | TV series, uncredited |
| Bewitched
| 1967–1969 | Restaurant Patron / Country Club Guest | TV series, uncredited |
| The Andy Griffith Show
| 1968 | Restaurant Patron | TV series, uncredited |
| Funny Girl
| 1968 | Audience Member | uncredited |
| Family Affair
| 1968 | Guest | TV series, uncredited |
| I Love You, Alice B. Toklas!
| 1968 | Mourner | uncredited |
| Hellfighters
| 1968 | Restaurant Patron | uncredited |
| It Takes a Thief
| 1968 | Guest / Party Guest | TV series, uncredited |
| Myra Breckinridge
| 1970 | Bridge Party Guest | uncredited |
| McCloud
| 1970 | Party Guest | TV series, uncredited |
| The Bold Ones: The Senator
| 1970 | Party Guest | TV series, uncredited |
| The Mephisto Waltz
| 1971 | Party Guest | uncredited |
| Gunsmoke
| 1971 | Townswoman | TV series, uncredited |
| The Partridge Family
| 1971–1974 | Speech Spectator / Audience Member / Townswoman | TV series, uncredited |
| Columbo
| 1971–1974 | Exhibit Patron / Party Guest / Theatre Patron | TV series, uncredited |
| Gidget Gets Married
| 1972 | Office Worker | uncredited |
| Mary Tyler Moore
| 1972 | Woman | TV series |
| Banacek
| 1973 | Restaurant Patron | TV series, uncredited |
| The Magician
| 1974 | Benefit Guest | TV series, uncredited |
| McMillan & Wife
| 1974 | Club Patron | TV series, uncredited |
| The Snoop Sisters
| 1974 | Film Festival Attendee | TV series, uncredited |
| Rhoda
| 1974 | Passenger | TV series, uncredited |
| Young Frankenstein
| 1974 | Theatre Goer | uncredited |
| Charlie's Angels
| 1977–1978 | Interview Spectator / Auction Guest / Society Member | TV series, uncredited |
| The Rockford Files
| 1979 | Party Guest | TV series, uncredited |
| The Waltons
| 1981 | Party Guest | TV series, uncredited |
| The Star Chamber
| 1983 | Party Guest | uncredited |
| Dynasty
| 1981–1986 | Juror / Party Guest | TV series, uncredited |
| The A Team
| 1983 | Helen, Old Woman in Cab | TV series, uncredited |
| Hart to Hart
| 1983 | Bidder #1 | TV series, uncredited |
| Murder, She Wrote
| 1984–1989 | Party Guest | TV series, uncredited |
| Life with Lucy
| 1986 | Wedding Guest | TV series, uncredited |
| Married... with Children
| 1989 | Restaurant Patron | TV series, uncredited |
References
= Citations =
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= Sources =
- {{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iTQXz-zQK5MC&q=%22ethelreda+leopold%22&pg=PA241|title=The Three Stooges Scrapbook|last1=Lenburg|first1=Jeff|last2=Maurer|first2=Joan Howard|last3=Lenburg|first3=Greg|publisher=Carol Publishing Group|year=1999|isbn=9780806509464|location=Secaucus, New Jersey}}
External links
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Category:American film actresses
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