
Leila Hyams (May 1, 1905 – December 4, 1977) was an American model, vaudeville and film actress, who came from a show business family. Her relatively short film career began in the 1920s during the era of silent films and ended in 1936. Although her career only lasted around twelve years, the blonde blue-eyed ingenue appeared in more than 50 film roles and remained a press favorite, with numerous magazine covers.

Freaks
1932 · as Venus

Island of Lost Souls
1932 · as Ruth Thomas

Sandra
1924 · as Mait Stanley

Honor Bound
1928 · as Selma Ritchie

The Big House
1930 · as Anne Marlowe

Red-Headed Woman
1932 · as Irene 'Rene' Legendre

Spite Marriage
1929 · as Ethyl Norcrosse

Ruggles of Red Gap
1935 · as Nell Kenner

A Girl in Every Port
1928 · as Widow in San Pedro, Belize

The Thirteenth Chair
1929 · as Helen 'Nellie' O'Neill

Men Call It Love
1931 · as Connie

Alias Jimmy Valentine
1928 · as Rose

$1,000 a Minute
1935 · as Dorothy Summers

The Poor Rich
1934 · as Grace Hunter

Wonder of Women
1929 · as Karen

The Idle Rich
1929 · as Joan Thayer

The Phantom of Paris
1931 · as Cecile Bourrelier

Sing, Sinner, Sing
1933 · as Lela Larson