Glory Leppänen

Glory Leppänen ( Renvall; 28 November 1901 – 26 October 1979) was a Finnish actress, theatre and film director, and writer.

In 1924, Glory Renvall married the actor , but he died in 1937 at a relatively young age of 43.

Career Stage Glory Leppänen trained at Suomen Näyttämöopisto ( 'Finnish Stage College'), which later came to be merged into Helsinki Theatre Academy, graduating in 1922.

Film Leppänen appeared in three films in the 1920s and 1930s. She also directed one feature-length film, Onnenpotku (1936), starring the relatively inexperienced actress and Miss Europe 1934, Ester Toivonen. It was the first Finnish feature-length film directed by a woman, and as of 2020 remains the most successful such film by cinema audience numbers, with over 400,000 tickets sold.

Writing In the 1960s, Leppänen published several adventure novels.