Leigh Snowden

Leigh Snowden was born on Jun 23, 1929 in USA. Leigh Snowden's big-screen debut came with Kiss Me Deadly directed by Robert Aldrich in 1955. Leigh Snowden is known for This Is Alice directed by Sidney Salkow, Patty Ann Gerrity stars as Alice Holliday and Phyllis Coates as Clarissa Holliday. The upcoming new movie Leigh Snowden plays is The Comancheros which will be released on Nov 29, 1961.

The Tennessee-born Snowden (real name: Martha Lee Estes) was a movie actress and model who first made a splash on the Jack Benny TV show, sashaying across the stage at the San Diego Naval base. Twenty thousand sailors gave the curvy sweater-clad starlet a standing ovation that made headlines in "Variety", and every talent scout in Hollywood was on Snowden's trail the very next morning. Three days later, she was hired to make her film debut in director Robert Aldrich's obtuse crime classic En quatrième vitesse (1955) (Aldrich expanded her role and gave her featured billing). In January 1955, she signed a seven-year contract with Universal Studios, beginning by playing up her Dixie drawl in their glossy soap opera Tout ce que le ciel permet (1955). Other movies include Francis in the Navy (1955), La créature est parmi nous (1956) and the Bridey Murphy-inspired L'homme qui vécut deux fois (1956). In September 1956, Snowden married Dick Contino, a big-name singer/accordion player, and a few years later she retired from acting. Mother to five children from two marriages, she died of cancer at age 51.