LESTER COLE - Wrote or contributed to the films "Objective Burma," "The Romance of Rosy Ridge," "High Wall" and "The House of the Seven Gables."

Discovered by actress Norma Shearer, Leigh secured a contract with MGM and made her film debut with a starring role in The Romance of Rosy Ridge in 1947.

Leigh made her film debut in the big budget film The Romance of Rosy Ridge in 1947, as the romantic interest of Van Johnson's character.

Furthermore, due to the box office success of The Romance of Rosy Ridge, Leigh and Johnson were teamed up again in a film project called The Life of Monty Stratton in August 1947.

The Romance of Rosy Ridge is a 1947 drama film about a rural community still bitterly divided in the aftermath of the American Civil War.

The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1947)

The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1937)

One of the first of a crop of post-World War II ingénues, Ms. Leigh was the love interest of Van Johnson in her debut film as a mountain girl in "The Romance of Rosy Ridge" (1947).

She went on to star in such films as Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 thriller Psycho, The Manchurian Candidate and the Civil War drama The Romance of Rosy Ridge.