Leigh Jason

{{short description|American film director}}

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| name = Leigh Jason

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1904|7|26}}

| birth_place = New York, New York, United States

| death_date = {{death date and age|1979|2|19|1904|7|26}}

| death_place = Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, United States

| yearsactive = 1925–1962

| occupation = Film director, screenwriter

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Leigh Jason (July 26, 1904 – February 19, 1979) was an American film director and screenwriter.{{Cite web|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/person/95912/Leigh-Jason |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080526025151/http://movies.nytimes.com/person/95912/Leigh-Jason |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 26, 2008 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=The New York Times |date=2008 |title=Leigh Jason |access-date=September 8, 2011}} He was born in New York, New York, and died in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles.

He married Ruth Harriet Louise in 1927 at Temple B'nai B'rith, with William Wyler as his best man. Louise was the first woman photographer active in Hollywood, and ran Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's portrait studio from 1925 to 1930. They had a son, Leigh Jr., who died of leukemia when he was six years old, and Louise died in 1940, along with their second son, in complications from childbirth.{{Cite book|last1=Dance|first1=Robert|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r6cwDwAAQBAJ&q=jason&pg=PA61|title=Ruth Harriet Louise and Hollywood Glamour Photography|last2=Robertson|first2=Bruce|last3=Art|first3=Terra Museum of American|date=May 6, 2002|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-23348-5}}