Lenore Aubert (born Eleanore Maria Leisner, April 18, 1913[note 1] â€"
July 31, 1993) was a model and Hollywood actress best known for her
movie roles as exotic, mysterious women.Aubert was born in what is now
Celje, Slovenia, but at the time was part of the Austro-Hungarian
Empire. She grew up in Vienna.In New York, she found work as a model
and was eventually offered a stage role as Lorraine Sheldon in The Man
Who Came to Dinner at the La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego. She began
her U.S. film career in the early 1940s, taking the French-sounding
screen name Lenore Aubert.She was professionally pursued by Louis B.
Mayer, to be put under a seven year contract to Metro Goldwyn-Mayer,
however Samuel Goldwyn, with whom she was already under contract,
refused to sell her contract to M.G.M.[citation needed]
July 31, 1993) was a model and Hollywood actress best known for her
movie roles as exotic, mysterious women.Aubert was born in what is now
Celje, Slovenia, but at the time was part of the Austro-Hungarian
Empire. She grew up in Vienna.In New York, she found work as a model
and was eventually offered a stage role as Lorraine Sheldon in The Man
Who Came to Dinner at the La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego. She began
her U.S. film career in the early 1940s, taking the French-sounding
screen name Lenore Aubert.She was professionally pursued by Louis B.
Mayer, to be put under a seven year contract to Metro Goldwyn-Mayer,
however Samuel Goldwyn, with whom she was already under contract,
refused to sell her contract to M.G.M.[citation needed]
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