[1] Leopold is familiar to modern viewers for her roles in several Three Stooges, Andy Hardy, and Abbott and Costello films.

She also had bit parts in such American classics as Angels Over Broadway and Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator,[2] and also supported other celebrated film comedians such as Harold Lloyd and Laurel and Hardy.

[4] Leopold studied at the Chicago Art Institute for some time before she was discovered as an actress.

[5] She began acting at age 17 after a scout for Warner Brothers saw her "modeling teen-age fashions," according to The New York Times.

[6] She was the winner of a "popularity contest" for the group of 109 "Busby Berkeley" girls and became part of a promotional tour after she was filmed for Gold Diggers in Paris.