Joan Agnes Theresa Sadie Brodel (born January 26, 1925 in Detroit, Michigan) known professionally as Joan Leslie, is a retired American film and television actress. Leslie got her first major role in the thriller High Sierra with Humphrey Bogart, playing a crippled girl under her new billing as “Joan Leslie”. She also starred in Sergeant York and The Wagons Roll at Night in that same year. Later in 1942 she appeared as James Cagney’s wife in Yankee Doodle Dandy, and at the age of 18 in 1943, she starred in The Sky’s the Limit with Fred Astaire.
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