Joan Leslie

Leslie was born Joan Agnes Theresa Sadie Brodel, the youngest child in her family. Her father was a bank clerk.{{cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UEEEAAAAMBAJ&q=joan+leslie&pg=PA75|title=Joan Leslie| magazine=Life |date=October 26, 1942|access-date=February 20, 2014}}

Joan's two older sisters, Betty and Mary Brodel, shared their mother's musical interest and started to learn how to play instruments, such as the saxophone and the banjo, at an early age. They began performing in front of audiences in acts that included singing and dancing.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OfwMkz8vpIgC&q=joan+leslie&pg=PA154|title=Joan Leslie profile at|date=June 21, 2010|publisher=The Women of Warner Brothers: The Lives and Careers of 15 Leading Ladies|isbn=9780786462360|access-date=February 10, 2014}} Leslie joined the duo at two and a half years of age. She was soon able to play the accordion.{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1350&dat=19860626&id=hjFPAAAAIBAJ&pg=6887,5449585| title=Joan Leslie, an update|work=Toledo Blade |date=June 26, 1986|page=28|access-date=February 10, 2014}}

With her father losing his job in the mid-1930s, the Great Depression caused financial difficulties for the family. As a result, the three sisters entered show business as vaudeville performers to support the family. They began touring in Canada and the United States. Collectively, they were known as The Three Brodels. As an attempt to bypass child labor laws at the time, both Mary and Joan pretended to be older than they were. When Leslie was nine, she told child labor investigators that she was 16 years old.{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2293&dat=19410810&id=ltImAAAAIBAJ&pg=1341,558742| title=Detroit's outlaw Brodel sisters go straight in Hollywood|work=The Sunday Morning Star |date=August 10, 1941|access-date=February 25, 2014}} Joan proved to be the scene stealer of the three sisters because of her impersonations of figures such as Katharine Hepburn, Maurice Chevalier, and Jimmy Durante.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pNQylJinyQsC&q=%22movies+were+always+magical%22+%22joan%22&pg=PA109|title=Joan Leslie|date=February 27, 2003|publisher="Movies Were Always Magical": Interviews with 19 Actors, Directors, and ...|isbn=9780786411290|access-date=February 10, 2014}} Coming from a family of Irish ancestry, Leslie was raised as a Roman Catholic and attended Catholic schools in Detroit, Toronto, and Montreal.{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=888&dat=19460106&id=7qs1AAAAIBAJ&pg=5693,3622869| title=Joan Leslie's Ego Isn't Inflated by Film Fame|work=Tampa Bay Times|date=January 6, 1946|page=37|access-date=February 22, 2014}}

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In 1936, 11-year-old Leslie caught the attention of a talent scout from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) when the three Brodel sisters were performing in New York. She was given a six-month contract with the studio, earning $200 per week. While working at the studio, she attended MGM's Little Red Schoolhouse with other child actors such as Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, and Freddie Bartholomew.{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3111542/the_lowell_sun/|title=Tutoring kid stars was an exciting challenge| work=The Lowell Sun |date=October 8, 1972|page=65|access-date=August 29, 2015}} – via Newspapers.com {{Open access}}

Her first film role was in Camille (1936), a romantic drama starring Greta Garbo and Robert Taylor.{{cite web | url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/81940756/?terms=%22joan%2Bbrodel%22 | title=Child actress prefer cooking to acting | work=The Liberty Vindicator | date=November 3, 1937 | access-date=September 13, 2015 | pages=2}} She played Taylor's younger sister Marie Jeanette, but her speaking scenes were deleted and she was uncredited. MGM had trouble finding suitable roles for her, and she was let go by the studio along with Deanna Durbin.{{cite web|url=http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2018/New%20York%20NY%20PM%20%20Daily/New%20York%20NY%20PM%20Daily%201941/New%20York%20NY%20PM%20Daily%201941%20-%200579.pdf|title=One film puts Joan Leslie on brink of stardom at 16| work=PM|date=August 24, 1941|page=44|access-date=February 23, 2014}} Leslie returned to New York, working on the radio and as a model. During this time, her older sister Mary was signed to Universal Studios. Leslie returned to Hollywood with the rest of her family, working for different studios as a freelancer. She mainly worked for RKO Pictures.{{cite web|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/us/california/oakland/oakland-tribune/1944/08-20/|title=Joan Leslie – She's acted every age but her own; has kept Fred Astaire waiting|work=Oakland Tribune |date=August 20, 1944|page=55|access-date=May 12, 2014}}

Leslie was selected to play a small role in Men with Wings (1938). While shooting the film, director William A. Wellman discovered that Leslie's mother had lied about her daughter's age and that she was only 13 years old. For the remainder of the filming schedule, Wellman replaced her with Mary.{{cite web | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2194&dat=19380713&id=Cl8vAAAAIBAJ&pg=7059,6675110| title=Hollywood Highlights| work=Ottawa Citizen|date=July 13, 1938|page=21|access-date=February 22, 2014}}

Leslie gained her first credited role in Winter Carnival (1939) as Betsy Phillips. She was chosen for the part because the director was searching for an actress with a southern accent. She was billed as Joan Brodel. Later that year, she co-starred with Jimmy Lydon in Two Thoroughbreds, in which she played the daughter of a horse owner.{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/114865/Two-Thoroughbreds/overview|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140309142357/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/114865/Two-Thoroughbreds/overview|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 9, 2014|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=The New York Times|author=Hal Erickson|title=Two-Thoroughbreds|author-link=Hal Erickson (author)|date=2014|access-date=February 16, 2014}}

At age 15, Leslie was selected by a group of Hollywood directors as one of 13 "baby stars of 1940".{{cite news|title=Directors Favor Brunettes|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1983811/directors_favor_brunettes/|work=Arizona Independent Republic|date=October 19, 1940|via = Newspapers.com|page=50|access-date = March 13, 2015}} {{Open access}} That same year, she appeared in the Warner Bros. film short, Alice in Movieland, about a starlet trying to make her mark in Hollywood. One of the first films directed by Jean Negulesco in Hollywood, it was based on a story by Ed Sullivan.{{Cite news |url=https://archive.org/details/motionpictureher141unse/page/n584/mode/1up |title=Product Digest: 1940–41 Shorts |newspaper=Motion Picture Herald |volume=141 |number=11 |page=27 |date=December 14, 1940 |access-date=June 21, 2024 |via=Internet Archive}}

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Her big break came when she signed a contract with Warner Bros. in 1941. At the time, actress Joan Blondell's name was considered too similar, so Brodel's acting name was changed to Joan Leslie.{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2506&dat=19420308&id=GJNIAAAAIBAJ&pg=878,6509524| title=Most stage folk take new names|work=The News and Courier|date=March 8, 1942|access-date=February 22, 2014}}{{Dead link|date=August 2015}}

Two weeks later,{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=266&dat=19980622&id=HOgrAAAAIBAJ&pg=2603,7664699| title=Warner Bros. turns 75|work=Kentucky New Era|date=June 22, 1998|page=18|access-date=February 26, 2014}} the then-15-year-old actress was asked to do a screen test while unaware which movie it was for. She got the part because she could cry on cue. The movie was High Sierra (1941), starring Ida Lupino and Humphrey Bogart. Leslie played the crippled girl, Velma.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5GkWBzW-zCAC&q=%22joan+brodel%22+%221940%22&pg=PT115|title=Raoul Walsh: The True Adventures of Hollywood's Legendary Directors|date=June 17, 2011|publisher=The University Press of Kentucky|isbn=978-0813139906|access-date=February 20, 2014}} Film critic Bosley Crowther wrote: "a newcomer named Joan Leslie handles lesser roles effectively."{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=990DE7DC163AE33BBC4D51DFB766838A659EDE|title=Review: High Sierra, January 25, 1941|work=The New York Times |access-date=February 22, 2014}}

Later that year, Warner Bros. produced a biopic of Alvin C. York, a decorated American World War I soldier, Sergeant York (also 1941), starring Gary Cooper. Jane Russell was initially suggested for the role of Gracie Williams, York's fiancée, but York wanted an actress who neither smoked nor drank.{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1873&dat=19410712&id=7mgoAAAAIBAJ&pg=3034,2126949|title=Hollywood Chatter|work=The Daytona Beach News-Journal |date=July 12, 1941|page=4|access-date=February 23, 2014}} 16-year old Leslie eventually got the part.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1bKfpItvr4UC&pg=PA106|title=Sergeant York: An American Hero|publisher=The University Press of Kentucky|isbn=0813128463|access-date=February 20, 2014}} Sergeant York was a critical and financial success, becoming the highest-grossing movie of 1941. It received 11 Oscar nominations and Cooper won the Best Actor award.{{cite encyclopedia|url=http://global.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1326513/Sergeant-York| title=Sergeant York (film by Hawks [1941])| encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date=February 22, 2014}}

Cooper (aged 40) was 24 years her senior. "Gary gave me a doll on the set," Leslie later told the Toronto Star. "That's how he saw me."{{Cite news|title = Joan Leslie, girl-next-door movie star of the 1940s, dies at 90|url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/joan-leslie-girl-next-door-movie-star-of-the-1940s-dies-at-90/2015/10/15/495f4a58-734b-11e5-9cbb-790369643cf9_story.html|newspaper = The Washington Post|date = October 15, 2015|access-date = January 7, 2016|issn = 0190-8286|language = en-US|first = Adam|last = Bernstein}}

Leslie had a supporting role in The Male Animal (1942).{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1025&dat=19420806&id=M_4kAAAAIBAJ&pg=3086,1849502| title=The Male Animal|work=Heppner Gazette-Times|date=August 6, 1942|page=5|access-date=February 23, 2014}} She played Olivia de Havilland's younger sister, Patricia Stanley, a role Gene Tierney had played in the original Broadway production.{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=336&dat=19410711&id=IkhQAAAAIBAJ&pg=7053,1100333| title=Joan Leslie gets part|work=Deseret News |date=July 11, 1941|page=4|access-date=February 28, 2014}}

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She auditioned for Paramount's Holiday Inn (1942), but Warner Bros. decided to cast her in Yankee Doodle Dandy (also 1942) with James Cagney.{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19421227&id=uRwaAAAAIBAJ&pg=2722,4571490|title=Joan Leslie Happy to Be Just 18|work=Milwaukee Journal Sentinel|date=December 27, 1942|page=70|access-date=February 21, 2014}}{{Dead link|date=March 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} The film is a musical depicting the life of Broadway entertainer George M. Cohan.{{cite web|url=http://issuu.com/mediaflash/docs/ob_14mar12_az/22|title=Whatever Happened to...Joan Leslie|work=Melbourne Observer |date=March 14, 2012|page=22|access-date=February 21, 2014}} Leslie portrayed his girlfriend/wife Mary, an aspiring singer.{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2206&dat=19430219&id=CgctAAAAIBAJ&pg=3059,3471449|title=Yankee Doodle opens at three theaters today|work=The Miami News|date=February 19, 1942|page=17|access-date=February 25, 2014}}{{Dead link|date=March 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} The film received eight Oscar nominations, including a Best Actor award for James Cagney.{{cite web|url=http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/DisplayMain.jsp?curTime=1393035322855|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140223004946/http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/DisplayMain.jsp?curTime=1393035322855|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 23, 2014|title=Yankee Doodle Dandy|publisher=Oscars.org|access-date=February 22, 2014}} By now, Leslie had become a star whose on-screen image was described as "sweet innocence without seeming too sugary."

Leslie was in four motion pictures released during 1943. The first was The Hard Way, starring Ida Lupino and Dennis Morgan. A New York Times reviewer described Leslie as "just as deft and versatile a lady as the character she is supposed to be."{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1314&dat=19440216&id=qClWAAAAIBAJ&pg=2303,3758064|title=Ida Lupino, Joan Leslie, Dennis Morgan in The Hard Way|work=The Spokesman-Review|date=February 16, 1944|page=21|access-date=February 23, 2014}}{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9800E5D61E39E33BBC4B52DFB5668388659EDE|title=The Hard Way (1942)- At the Strand|work=The New York Times |access-date=August 28, 2015}} For the second, she was lent to RKO for The Sky's the Limit, starring with Fred Astaire. Leslie's character introduced the Harold Arlen-Johnny Mercer song "My Shining Hour".{{cite web|url= https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3113220/big_spring_daily_herald/

|title=Meet the Stars| work=Big Spring Daily Herald |date=January 27, 1944|page=3|access-date=August 29, 2015}} – via Newspapers.com {{Open access}} In the third movie, Leslie co-starred in the wartime motion picture This Is the Army with Ronald Reagan.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFzv8peFX-U| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120109184855/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFzv8peFX-U| archive-date=January 9, 2012 | url-status=dead|title=This is the Army|publisher=Youtube upload. Public domain film|access-date=February 28, 2014}} The fourth movie was Thank Your Lucky Stars.

She was considered for the role of Tessa in The Constant Nymph (also 1943), wherein she would play opposite Errol Flynn.{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1917&dat=19410306&id=AntGAAAAIBAJ&pg=1133,553560| title=Errol Flynn-Joan Leslie to make Constant Nymph|work=Schenectady Gazette |page=6|access-date=February 26, 2014}} Studio executive Jack L. Warner, though, felt she was unsuitable and the part went to Joan Fontaine. The Australian-born actor Flynn was rejected because the director wanted a British actor.{{cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/430527?413050/The-Constant-Nymph.html |title=The Constant Nymph |publisher=Turner Classic Movies |access-date=February 26, 2014 }}

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During World War II, she was a regular volunteer at the Hollywood Canteen, where she danced with servicemen and signed hundreds of autographs. She was featured with Robert Hutton, among many others, in the Warner Bros. film Hollywood Canteen (1944). Like most of the other Hollywood stars appearing in the film, she played herself, but the fictionalized plot had her falling in love with a soldier (played by Hutton) frequenting the canteen.{{Cite web|url=https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1633222/m1/|title=Pop Chronicles 1940s Program #11|first=John|last=Gilliland|date=January 15, 1972|website=UNT Digital Library}} Her sister, actress Betty Brodel, briefly played herself in the film as well.{{Citation needed|date=May 2021}} In 1946, an exhibitors' poll conducted by Motion Picture Herald voted Leslie the most promising star of tomorrow.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17994035|title=The Stars of To-morrow.|newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald|location=NSW|date=September 10, 1946|access-date=April 24, 2012|page=11 Supplement: The Sydney Morning Herald Magazine|publisher=National Library of Australia}}

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By 1946, Leslie was growing increasingly dissatisfied with the roles offered to her by the studio. She sought more serious and mature roles, and wanted to break out of her ingenue image, which was partly due to her young age. Her decision was also based on moral and religious grounds.{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1305&dat=19470614&id=SO4iAAAAIBAJ&pg=1480,2622460| title=Joan Leslie ostracized for turning down roles against her principles|work=The Canadian Register|date=June 14, 1947|page=5|access-date=February 28, 2014}} With the help of her lawyer Oscar Cummings, she took Warner Bros. to court to get released from her contract.{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2506&dat=19470302&id=Isw8AAAAIBAJ&pg=6662,263172|title=Joan Leslie Pleased At Adult Roles After Leaving Warners|work=The News and Courier |date=March 2, 1947|access-date=February 23, 2014}}{{Dead link|date=August 2015}}

In 1947, the Catholic Theater Guild gave Leslie an award because of her "consistent refusal to use her talents and art in film productions of objectionable character."{{cite web|url=http://archive.catholicherald.co.uk/article/20th-may-1949/3/joan-leslie-honoured|title=Joan Leslie Honoured|work=Catholic Herald|date=May 20, 1949|access-date=February 21, 2014}}

As a result of this, Jack Warner used his influence to blacklist her from other major Hollywood studios.{{cite web|url=http://www.westernclippings.com/interview/joanleslie_interview.shtml| title=Joan Leslie Interview|publisher=Western Clippings|access-date=February 10, 2014}} In 1947, she signed a two-picture contract with the poverty row studio Eagle-Lion Films. The first one was Repeat Performance (1947), a film noir in which she played a Broadway actress.{{cite web|url=http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/events/2013-03-04/try-and-get-me-aka-sound-fury-1950-repeat-performance-1947|title=Repeat Performance|publisher=UCLA film and television archive|access-date=February 23, 2014}} The other was Northwest Stampede (1948) in which she performed with James Craig.{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1350&dat=19481202&id=mNMpAAAAIBAJ&pg=4268,6064876| title=Headed for Paramount|work=Toledo Blade |date=December 2, 1948|page=40|access-date=February 23, 2014}}

After her contract with Eagle-Lion Films expired, she was cast in The Skipper Surprised His Wife (1950), appearing with Robert Walker. The film was distributed by MGM, the studio with which she began her film career in 1936.{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1350&dat=19491124&id=lPlOAAAAIBAJ&pg=4561,3891741| title=Joan Leslie on her way to big screen comeback| work=Toledo Blade|date=November 24, 1949|page=43|access-date=February 23, 2014}}

In the early 1950s, Leslie chose to focus on raising her daughters, which resulted in a more irregular film career. In 1952, she signed a short-term deal with Republic Pictures, the low-budget studio that primarily produced Westerns. One of the films she made for Republic was Flight Nurse (1953). Leslie's character, Polly Davis, was based on the successful flight nurse Lillian Kinkella Keil's career in the Air Force.{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jul-10-me-keil10-story.html| title=Lillian Kinkella Keil, 88; 'an Airborne Florence Nightingale'| newspaper=LA Times|date=July 10, 2005|access-date=August 28, 2015}} It was described by the newspaper Kingsport Times-News as a thrilling film that "honors the courageous women who performed miracles of mercy above the clouds in evacuation of wounded GIs from Korean battlefields."{{cite web|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/us/tennessee/kingsport/kingsport-times-news/1953/11-29/page-14|title=Joan Leslie, Forrest Tucker in Flight Nurse|work=Kingsport Times-News |date=November 29, 1953|page=14|access-date=May 12, 2014}} Her last film was The Revolt of Mamie Stover (1956), but she continued making sporadic appearances in television shows while her children were at school. She retired from acting in 1991, after appearing in the TV film Fire in the Dark.{{cite journal| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RxHbPxbBM1AC&q=%22fire+in+the+dark%22+%22joan+leslie%22&pg=PP212 | title=Television Reviews 1991–1992 | first=Kathleen | last=Steen | journal= Variety | date=October 4, 1991| isbn=9780824037963 }}

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In March 1950, she married William Caldwell, an obstetrician. They had identical twin daughters.{{cite web|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article18497054|title=Joan Leslie Has Twins|work=The Sunday Herald |date=January 7, 1951|page=4|access-date=February 10, 2014}} Both daughters became teachers.{{cite web|url=http://www.uoflsocalcards.com/boardmembers.htm|title=Meet the board|publisher=University of Louisville alumni club of California|access-date=February 26, 2014}}

Leslie was a Democrat who supported the campaign of Adlai Stevenson during the 1952 presidential election.Motion Picture and Television Magazine, November 1952, page 33, Ideal Publishers

Leslie designed clothing under her eponymous brand. William died in 2000. A year later, she founded the Dr. William G. and Joan L. Caldwell Chair in Gynecologic Oncology for the University of Louisville. Leslie was an adopted alumna of the university for over 32 years.{{cite web|url=http://search.louisville.edu/search?q=cache:QTr5pkC9ncEJ:louisville.edu/medschool/magazine/archives/fall-winter-2001/philanthropy/endowment.html+caldwell&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&client=uofl-frontend&proxystylesheet=uofl-frontend&site=default_collection&access=p&oe=UTF-8|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140227074044/http://search.louisville.edu/search?q=cache:QTr5pkC9ncEJ:louisville.edu/medschool/magazine/archives/fall-winter-2001/philanthropy/endowment.html+caldwell&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&client=uofl-frontend&proxystylesheet=uofl-frontend&site=default_collection&access=p&oe=UTF-8|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 27, 2014|title=Caldwell's legacy endures with $1 million endowment|publisher=Louisville.edu|access-date=February 22, 2014}} (cached)

A devout Catholic, she was involved with charity work for the St. Anne's Maternity Home for more than 50 years.{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-04-18-vw-466-story.html| title=Art Council Hopes the Sun Will Shine, April 18, 1986| work=Los Angeles Times | date=April 18, 1986|access-date=February 23, 2014}}

Leslie died on October 12, 2015, in Los Angeles, California. She was 90.{{cite web |url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/latimes/obituary.aspx?n=joan-leslie-caldwell&pid=176117423 |title=Joan Leslie Caldwell: Obituary |work=Los Angeles Times |date=October 15, 2015 |access-date=October 15, 2015}}

• On October 8, 1960, Joan Leslie received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1560 Vine Street.{{cite web|url=http://hwof.com/star/television/joan-leslie/1173|title=Joan Leslie|publisher=Hollywood Walk of Fame|access-date=August 30, 2014|archive-date=October 29, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161029111931/http://hwof.com/star/television/joan-leslie/1173|url-status=dead}}
• In 1999, she was one of the 250 actresses nominated for the American Film Institute's selection of the 25 greatest female screen legends to have debuted before 1950.{{cite web|url=http://www.afi.com/Docs/100years/stars500.pdf|title=A compendium of the 500 stars nominated for top 50 'Greatest Screen Legends status| publisher=American Film Institute|access-date=February 27, 2014}}
• On August 12, 2006, she received a Golden Boot Award for her contributions to Western television shows and movies.{{cite web|url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/people/2006-08-14-eastwood_x.htm| title=Eastwood honoured with Golden Boot Award|work=USA Today |access-date=February 10, 2014}}

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