Leona Maricle

Leona Maricle (December 23, 1905 – March 25, 1988) was an American stage and film actress known for "distinctive characterizations of colorful ladies." Her Broadway debut came in The Trial of Mary Dugan. Her final appearance on Broadway was in Never Too Late (1962).

Maricle married actor Louis Jean Heydt in New York City in 1928. They divorced in either 1947 or 1948. She did not remarry.

On March 25, 1988, Maricle died of an apparent heart attack in her apartment in Manhattan. Her obituary in The New York Times gave her age as 81.

Selected filmography O'Shaughnessy's Boy (1935) Theodora Goes Wild (1936) Women of Glamour (1937) Woman Chases Man (1937) The Lone Wolf in Paris (1938) Curtain Call (1940) Under Age (1941) The Hard Way (1943) My Reputation (1946)