A Hollywood movie star is a complex phenomenon, in part a composite image of the movie roles she's played and in part what the public knows of the private indiviudual through newspapers, tabloids and other media. Big Hollywood studios were adept at fashioning (or refashioning) both selves for public consumption, though in Joan Leslie's case the line between the screen image and the real-life person was particularly slippery (see for instance Hollywood Canteen, which practically eliminates the distinction). She was as sweet off the screen as she was on, fan magazines and newspaper items almost ritually proclaimed. |
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| Hollywood, May 1941 "Glamour Girl in Socks" by Jane Porter | | | Collier's, June 28, 1941 "The Strenuous Life" by Kyle Crichton | ||
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| Modern Screen, September 1941 "Sixteen and Unkissed!" by Henry P. Malmgreen | | | Screenland, April 1942 "Growing Pains of Joan Leslie" by Gladys Hill | ||
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| Life, October 26, 1942 "Joan Leslie Shines Brightly as a Full-fledged Star" | | | New York Times, March 14, 1943 "Joan Leslie Leafs Her Memory Book" | ||
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| Photoplay, December 1943 "I'm Not a Dull Girl!" by Joan Leslie | | | Movie Life, December 1943 "Movie Life of Joan Leslie" | ||
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| Modern Screen, April 1944 "Canteen Kid" by Marcia Daughtrey | | | New York Times, April 30, 1944 "Exuberant Youth on the March" by Paul Kennedy | ||
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| Young Life, Summer 1945 "Acting is Fun" by Nina Klowden | | | Picturegoer (U.K.), November 24, 1945 "Joan Leslie...Symbol of Young America?" by H.M. Mooring | ||
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| Motion Picture, October, 1945 "Close-up of Joan Leslie" by Sidney Skolsky | | | Movieland, February 1946 "Getting a Line on Leslie" by Mickell Novak | ||
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| Movies, April 1946 "I Grew Up Slowly" by Jack Holland | | | New York Times, June 2, 1946 "Hollywood Contract Blues" by Thomas F. Brady | ||
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| Silver Screen, September 1946 "Somebody Special" by Lynn Bowers | | | Motion Picture, September 1946 "If You Had a Date with Joan Leslie" by Alyce Canfield | ||
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| Modern Screen, October 1947 "Everything Happens to Joan" by Nancy Winslow Squire | | | Santa Barbara News-Press, March 17, 1950 "Joan Leslie, Film Star, Wed to L.A. Doctor Here" | ||
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