Leslie Parrish


Actor

About

Also Known As
Marjorie Helen, Leslie Parrish-Bach, Marjorie Hellen
Birth Place
Melrose, Massachusetts, USA
Born
March 13, 1935

Biography

Former blonde starlet who played Laurence Harvey's love interest in "The Manchurian Candidate" (1960) and later fledging producer with husband Richard Bach, author of "Jonathan Livingston Seagull."...

Photos & Videos

Family & Companions

Richard Bach
Husband
Novelist. Married c. 1981; wrote "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" in 1970; met in 1972 during filming of "Jonathan Livingston Seagull"; divorced.

Biography

Former blonde starlet who played Laurence Harvey's love interest in "The Manchurian Candidate" (1960) and later fledging producer with husband Richard Bach, author of "Jonathan Livingston Seagull."

Life Events

Photo Collections

The Giant Spider Invasion - Movie Poster
Here is the American one-sheet movie poster for The Giant Spider Invasion (1975). One-sheets measured 27x41 inches, and were the poster style most commonly used in theaters.

Videos

Movie Clip

Three On A Couch (1966) -- (Movie Clip) You're Just Too Shy Pretending to be spinster "Heather," director and star Jerry Lewis has to become her brother "Rutherford," as he attempts to cure Mary Lou (Leslie Parrish) of her neuroses, in Three On A Couch, 1966.
Three On A Couch (1966) -- (Movie Clip) He Trusts Bugs Mary Lou (Leslie Parrish) with her shrink Liz (Janet Leigh), whose boyfriend Chris (director and star Jerry Lewis) is taking outrageous steps to cure her patients so they can get married, in Three On A Couch, 1966.
For Love Or Money (1963) -- (Movie Clip) You And Your Helpless Sisters With the second of three heiress sisters (Leslie Parrish) living in the same apartment building, lawyer Deke (Kirk Douglas) gets referred upstairs to the eldest and savviest Kate (Mitzi Gaynor), who makes clear they're not interested in their widowed mother's offer, in For Love Or Money, 1963.
Manchurian Candidate, The (1962) -- (Movie Clip) That Communist Tart! Brain-washed former Korean War POW Raymond (Laurence Harvey), now under friendly investigation by his colleague Marco (Frank Sinatra), recalls a summer with Josie (Leslie Parrish), her senator father (John McGiver), and his mother (Angela Lansbury) ruining it, in The Manchurian Candidate, 1962.
Li'l Abner -- (Movie Clip) Opening, A Typical Day Actors including Carmen Alvarez, Stubby Kaye, Leslie Parrish, Bern Hoffman, and Peter Palmer introduce their characters with Johnny Mercer and Gene de Paul's "It's A Typical Day" in the opening sequence from Li'l Abner, 1959.
Giant Spider Invasion, The -- (Movie Clip) What Was That? The Kesters (Robert Easton and Leslie Parrish) and young lovers Davey and Terry (Kevin Brodie and Diane Lee Hart) are mystified by the big special effects sequence in The Giant Spider Invasion, 1975.
Giant Spider Invasion, The -- (Movie Clip) Diamonds! Drunken Sam (Robert Easton) and Ev (Leslie Parrish) Kester notice the diamonds but not the spiders inside the weird rocks that fell into their field in The Giant Spider Invasion, 1975.

Trailer

Manchurian Candidate, The (1962) - (Original Trailer) A Korean War hero doesn't realize he's been programmed to kill in the original The Manchurian Candidate (1962) starring Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey and Angela Lansbury, from the novel by Richard Condon.
Li'L Abner - (Original Trailer) Al Capp's satirical comic strip becomes a Broadway musical becomes the movie Li'L Abner (1959) with Stubby Kaye and Julie Newmar.
Virgin Queen, The - (Black-and-white, pan-and-scan trailer) Sir Walter Raleigh wins favor with the Queen (Bette Davis) in order to get financing for a proposed voyage to the New World in The Virgin Queen (1955).
Power and the Prize, The - (Original Trailer) Robert Taylor jeopardizes his career to marry a European refugee in the movie of Howard Swiggert's novel The Power and The Prize (1956).
Hot Summer Night - (Original Trailer) A hotshot reporter risks his life to land an interview with a notorious gangster in Hot Summer Night (1957) starring Leslie Nielsen.
Man On Fire - (Original Trailer) Bing Crosby takes a intensely dramatic role as a divorced man who fights for custody of his son when his ex-wife remarries.
Sex and The Single Girl - (Original Trailer) A journalist (Tony Curtis) sets out to expose a female sex expert (Natalie Wood) in Sex and The Single Girl (1964) inspired by the self-help book by Helen Gurley Brown.
Three On A Couch - (Original Trailer) Psychiatrist Janet Leigh won't marry him until her patients are cured, so Jerry Lewis decides to cure them himself in Three On A Couch (1966).

Companions

Richard Bach
Husband
Novelist. Married c. 1981; wrote "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" in 1970; met in 1972 during filming of "Jonathan Livingston Seagull"; divorced.

Bibliography