Leona Maricle


Leona Maricle was an American stage and film actress known for "distinctive characterizations of colorful ladies."
Maricle was a graduate of Texas State College for Women. Her Broadway debut came in The Trial of Mary Dugan. Her final appearance on Broadway was in Never Too Late.
In the mid-1930s, she and her husband were active in summer stock theatre in Skowhegan, Maine.
Her husband, Louis Jean Heydt was a prolific character actor in films of the 1930s, 40s, and 50s. He died backstage in the *Colonial Theater in Boston. He had just completed a scene with Jane Fonda. He was appearing in a play that was being tried out *for the first time.
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. She was survived by a cousin and a niece.

Selected filmography