Marguerite Leslie

Marguerite Hedman adopted the name "Marguerite Leslie" as an actress in London,^[1] where she appeared in Nero (1906), The Beauty of Bath (1906–1907), My Darling (1907), Concerning a Countess (1907),^[4] A Scotch Marriage (1907–1908), Penelope (1909),^[5] Preserving Mr. Panmure (1911), The Marionettes (1911–1912), At the Barn (1912), and The Vision of Delight (1912).^[6]

Her Broadway credits included The Virginian (1904), Penelope (1909–1910), The Secret (1913–1914), Outcast (1914–1915), and The Basker (1916). In Los Angeles she had roles in The Gamblers (1912)^[7] and The Money Moon (1912).^[8] She also appeared in four silent films, Jim the Penman (1915, now lost), The Question (1916), The Mite of Love (1919, a short), and The Chosen Path (1919).^[9]

She was tall,^[10] and considered a beauty as a young actress,^[3] a "Burne-Jones girl in an English garden-party hat... quite the pinkest and whitest, fresh daisiest thing we have had for a long while," mused one Los Angeles writer.^[11] During World War I she worked raising funds for the Red Cross.^[12]

• Marguerite Leslie at IMDb
• Marguerite Leslie's listing on IBDB.
• The National Portrait Gallery has five postcard portraits of Marguerite Leslie by photographer Rita Martin, all from about 1908.
• Marguerite Leslie in her Marmon Nordyke motorcar (flickr)