Leatrice Joy (born Leatrice Johanna Zeidler, November , â€" May , )
was an American actress most prolific during the silent film era.Joy
was born in New Orleans, Louisiana to dentist Edward Joseph Zeidler,
who was of Austrian and French descent, and Mary Joy Crimens Zeidler,
who was of German and Irish descent. She had a brother, Billy, who
later worked at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.She attended the Convent of the
Sacred Heart in New Orleans, where she had planned on becoming a nun,
but left when her father was diagnosed with tuberculosis and forced to
give up his dental practice. She tried out for the New Orleans-based
Nola Film Company in and was hired as an actress. Her mother
disapproved of her becoming an actress, but the family needed the
money, so her mother accompanied her to California where she began
working in plays and films.Joy began her acting career in stock
theater companies and soon made her film debut; between April and
November , she was the star of about one-reel Black Diamond Comedies
produced by the United States Motion Picture Corporation in
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and released nationally by Paramount
Pictures. In many of these, she starred as "Susie," an irrepressibly
enthusiastic, impulsive young woman who gets into humorous scrapes.
was an American actress most prolific during the silent film era.Joy
was born in New Orleans, Louisiana to dentist Edward Joseph Zeidler,
who was of Austrian and French descent, and Mary Joy Crimens Zeidler,
who was of German and Irish descent. She had a brother, Billy, who
later worked at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.She attended the Convent of the
Sacred Heart in New Orleans, where she had planned on becoming a nun,
but left when her father was diagnosed with tuberculosis and forced to
give up his dental practice. She tried out for the New Orleans-based
Nola Film Company in and was hired as an actress. Her mother
disapproved of her becoming an actress, but the family needed the
money, so her mother accompanied her to California where she began
working in plays and films.Joy began her acting career in stock
theater companies and soon made her film debut; between April and
November , she was the star of about one-reel Black Diamond Comedies
produced by the United States Motion Picture Corporation in
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and released nationally by Paramount
Pictures. In many of these, she starred as "Susie," an irrepressibly
enthusiastic, impulsive young woman who gets into humorous scrapes.
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