Joan : Devoted to "Mary"
I first became interested in Joan Leslie (Joan Agnes Theresa Sadie Brodel, 1925-2015) when I noted that she was one of the few key cast members of Yankee Doodle Dandy I knew nothing about! (She portrayed Mary, George M. Cohan's fictionalized wife, supposed inspiration for the eponymous song). It turns out that Leslie, like many […]