Leigh Jason

Leigh Jason (July 26, 1904 – February 19, 1979) was an American film director and screenwriter.

He married Ruth Harriet Louise in 1927 at Temple B'nai B'rith, with William Wyler as his best man.

Louise was the first woman photographer active in Hollywood, and ran Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's portrait studio from 1925 to 1930.

They had a son, Leigh Jr., who died of leukemia when he was six years old, and Louise died in 1940, along with their second son, in complications from childbirth.

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