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Leslie Fenton (12 March 1902 – 25 March 1978) was an English-born American actor and film director. He appeared in 62 films between 1923 and 1945.
Fenton was born on 12 March 1902 in Liverpool, Lancashire, England. He moved to America with his mother, Elizabeth Carter, and his brothers when he was six years old. They sailed as steerage passengers on board the R.M.S. Celtic.
As a teenager, Leslie worked as an office clerk. He moved to New York and began a career on the stage. His film career began later with Fox Studios. He also directed 19 films between 1938 and 1951.
He married American actress Ann Dvorak in 1932. Dvorak (Anna May McKim) moved to Britain with Fenton while he served in the British armed forces during the Second World War. The union was childless and ended in divorce in 1945.
Fenton died 25 March 1978 in Montecito, California, aged 76. Some sources, including IMDb, incorrectly cite Frank Fenton, the noted screenwriter and novelist, as his younger brother. Frank Fenton's parents were actually John Fenton and Eveline Edgington (married Liverpool, 1900), as evidenced by the ship's manifest for the RMS Caronia (page 0817, line 0008), aboard which Frank Fenton arrived in the US on 21 April 1906.
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15 August 1948
Lulu Belle is singing in a cheap dive in Natchez, Mississippi in the early 1900's when she meets rising young attorney George Davis.
19 April 1932
A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following events in the upstate New York town of Cornwall after prominant financier George Ferguson is killed.
22 May 1931
Chick Hewes is released from prison and finds work as an accountant. Two years later, Chick's crooked friend, Benny LaMarr, to whom he is indebted for past kindnesses, steals a diamond necklace from the home safe of the district attorney.
03 March 1929
Haver, a newspaper reporter persuades a judge to release the suspected killer of a wealthy racetrack owner.
07 February 1926
May McAvoy is a woman who is blinded in an auto accident and relies on prayer to regain her sight.
20 April 1935
Band leader Jack Conrad is impressed by prison inmate Ray Ferrera on saxophone. Conrad hires Ray to join his band and tour upon his release.
11 September 1936
A law student poses as a fight promoter to catch a notorious gangster.
31 May 1935
Police search for the killer of a man who misused $700,000 intended for the Chinese Communists.
25 October 1934
On the French coast, unlucky Marie Galante is abducted and forced to board an American cargo ship bound for the Panama Canal.
19 November 1931
The children of feuding gangsters fall in love and fight to escape their parents' notoriety.
26 March 1938
In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, doctors scam patients with a fake cure for cancer.
27 December 1925
Doris Matthews, a beautiful, innocent young girl, forsakes her sweetheart, Joel Barlowe, in favor of Victor Brant, a wealthy roué.
22 August 1934
An Austrian officer must face up to the good and evil aspects of his own personality as he becomes involved in a war.
23 November 1925
This most famous of Victorian melodramas was more than half a century old, and had already been filmed several times when it came to the screen once again in 1925.
27 December 1935
A powerful publisher John Mitchell whose pursuit of sensational headlines at the expense of all else takes a personal toll when his daughter Joan is implicated in a murder.
09 May 1941
While on vacation, the Saint discovers a much-sought-after music box.
03 August 1929
Jim Hutton and Mary Archer are two liberals who are content to remain faithful to each other in spirit only.
06 November 1925
Steve Tuttle, the titular lazybones, takes on the responsibility of raising a fatherless girl, causing a scandal in his small town.
05 June 1938
An entry in MGM's Crime Does Not Pay series, this short tells the true story of how a young man, ignored by his parents, gets into a gang and starts a crime spree which leads to murder.
06 October 1933
Story of South American mail pilots, and the dangers they face flying at night.
12 June 1939
A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication.
30 May 1926
In San Francisco, Sylvia Douglas and her fiancée, James Callahan, a reformed crook, make their getaway after Jim, disgusted with his inability to find a job, un-reforms and steals a diamond necklace.
25 May 1929
Wellman’s first all-talkie, scripted by Herman Mankiewicz, with arrogant boxer Richard Arlen romancing Mary Brian, then falling for temptress Olga Baclanova (Freaks) on the eve of the big fight.
30 June 1939
An attorney handling a murder case is unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing.
19 April 1935
When a dancer disappears from a theater, Clay Dalzell is asked to investigate, leading him on a trail of murder and deception.
09 December 1948
Smith is an iron-willed railroad detective. When his friend Murray is fired from the railroad and begins helping Rebstock wreck trains, Smith must go after him.
21 August 1937
This entry in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series deals with racketeers shaking down small grocers and horning in on the relief tickets, forcing prices up with the consumers paying the freight.
23 April 1931
Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life to become petty thieves, bootleggers and cold-blooded killers.
02 October 1936
Love with a clerk and a robbery by gangsters preoccupy a department store's new owner.
22 January 1938
In this short, a modern-day promoter tries to sell a man the idea of searching for Captain Kidd's buried treasure, claiming he has the original map.
13 October 1929
A middle-aged magician is in love with his beautiful young assistant. She, on the other hand, is in love with the magician's young protege, who turns out to be a bum and a thief.
30 November 1934
When a young man marries a Russian girl, he finds that he has "married" her entire family.
07 September 1931
Dot starts out as a bartender in Havana when in walks Dingo Mike (Charles Bickford) and orders up a drink that sounds like something you'd consume on a dare.
28 October 1936
Two men stumble into an old mansion, and get involved with a crazed scientist, torture chambers and sinister medical experiments.
17 April 1936
When the body of Violet Feverel is discovered on the Central Park bridle path, Inspector Oscar Piper presumes her death was accidental, until his friend, amateur detective Hildegarde Withers, locates Violet’s horse and discovers it is streaked with blood.
13 December 1929
Wealthy Cynthia is in love with not-so-wealthy Roger, who is married to Marcia. The threesome is terribly modern about the situation, and Marcia will gladly divorce Roger if Cynthia agrees to a financial settlement.
17 June 1932
Story of an unhappy wife of oil rigger who labors in a Central American oil field. The bored Susan falls in love with Walt's good friend Ken but keeps her husband in the dark about her feelings.
16 February 1940
A frontier scout, a Boston officer and a Russian girl escape with a map past Confederates.
01 December 1935
Survivors of a shipwreck find refuge on a tropical island--but so do the ship's cargo of lions and tigers.
01 September 1931
Wealthy Mr. Kennedy shoots his secretary, Channing, during a parlor game, but it turns out the gun was loaded with real bullets.
03 February 1948
Oliver Pease gets a dose of courage from his wife Martha and tricks the editor of the paper (where he writes lost pet notices) into assigning him the day's roving question.
20 May 1938
An American art collector, living in France in the 1870s, who loses his fortune in a stock market crash devises a scheme to get back his wealth through insurance fraud with the added consequence of potentially killing hundreds of people.
11 January 1931
A spoiled carefree rich kid gets into too much trouble for his father who sends him out on his own to prove himself capable of making a respectable man of himself.
10 April 1926
Sandy McNeil adopts strictly unconventional jazz ethics and against the wishes of her parents runs with a fast young set.
15 March 1935
After socialite Lynn Llewellyn receives an anonymous threat, he is poisoned at his uncle's casino, and although he recovers, his wife is murdered by the same killer.
02 April 1933
Urged by famous airman Ellissen the Lennartz Company puts into reality the project proposed by his friend Droste: F.
09 April 1934
An aspiring writer and her boyfriend, a professional agitator head off to the Big Apple in search of good fortune.
08 September 1938
Devout but iron-willed Father Flanagan leads a community called Boys Town, a different sort of juvenile detention facility where, instead of being treated as underage criminals, the boys are shepherded into making themselves better people.
12 March 1937
Americans Tommy Baldwin and Joe Dugan are hired to transport a fabulous diamond from Shanghai to San Francisco.
07 August 1934
A radio columnist is threatened by gangsters and later murdered during a broadcast. A detective sets out to find the killers.
27 May 1929
A naive young dancer in a Broadway show innocently gets involved in backstage bootlegging and murder.
27 May 1949
Texas, 1878: cheerful outlaw-buddies Jim, Lorn and Wahoo rescue spunky orphan Rannie Carter from rustling racketeers, then are forced to separate.
09 December 1933
An ex-gang member tries to resist his old cohorts' criminal influence after he suddenly becomes a Hollywood movie star.
11 October 1925
Sam Martin grows up in the Kentucky hills with a preacher as his closest friend and father figure. The young man goes away and gets an education, and when he returns home, he wants to build a school so that others can learn, too.
29 June 1935
A G-man woos a newswoman and corners bank robbers with a hostage in a factory.
05 December 1947
After World War II Larry learns that his flying buddy Mike will only live a short time despite the efforts of the doctors.
02 May 1926
Because he refuses to collect rent payments from his impoverished tenants, kindly Irish nobleman Sir Miles Gaffney is in danger of losing his estate.
28 May 1932
A fast-talking reporter befriends a young woman and her male companion who are wanted for a policeman's shooting.
15 March 1951
Gil Kyle finds himself caught up in the politics and unrest of the American Civil War and soon gets himself framed for a murder.
01 January 1928
To prevent discovery of the cruel methods he is using in building a Bolivian railway, Gillespie a ruthless construction crew foreman, attempts to kill Arthur Wyatt, an Englishman sent to inspect the job.
