Leatrice Joy

Trivia

• Leatrice Joy was awarded a star on the legendary Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6517 Hollywood Blvd., in Hollywood, California, USA.
• In 1980, she appeared in the television documentary series Hollywood: A Celebration of the American Silent Film, and spoke about her relationship with John Gilbert.
• One such appearance was in the 1951 release Love Nest, which featured a young Marilyn Monroe.
• By the early 1930s, Joy was in semi-retirement from the motion picture industry, but she later made several guest appearances in a few modestly successful films.
• In 1929 Joy became a freelance actress without a contract.
• Joy's career began to falter with the advent of talkies. It has been alleged that her career decline rested in part with her heavy southern accent that was considered unfashionable in comparison with the refined east coast diction of the newer actresses.
• A professional dispute ended the partnership with DeMille and Joy in 1928 and Joy was signed with MGM. Joy headlined MGM's second part-talkie effort, The Bellamy Trial in 1928, opposite Betty Bronson and Margaret Livingston.
• In 1925, against the advice of studio executives, Joy parted ways with Paramount and followed DeMille to his new film studio Producers Distributing Corporation and she made a few modestly successful films for the company, including Lois Weber's last silent film The Angel of Broadway in 1927.
• Joy starred in a number of successful releases for Paramount and was heavily promoted as one of DeMille's most prominent protegés.
• Her close-cropped hair and somewhat boyish persona (she was several times cast as a woman mistaken for a young man) became fashionable during the era. With her increasing popularity, Joy was sought out by Cecil B. DeMille and signed to contract to Paramount Pictures in 1922 and that same year was cast in the successful high-society drama Saturday Night opposite Conrad Nagel.