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Caption: Still of Leon Ames, William Powell, Morris Ankrum, Ralph Brooke, Tom Dugan, Donald MacBride and Donald Meek in The Thin Man Goes Home (1945)
About Leon Waycoff
Actor, Soundtrack
Born: January 20, 1902
Star sign: Aquarius
Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m)
Known for: Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), Father of the Bride (1961), Mister Ed (1958), Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
Source: IMDB
Leon Ames was born Harry Wycoff in Portland, Indiana, to Cora Alice (DeMoss) and Charles Elmer Wycoff. He had always wanted to be an actor and he did it the hard way, serving a long apprenticeship in touring amateur theatre companies, even selling shoes for a while on 42nd Street in the 1920's. It took him until 1933 to make his debut on Broadway....
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