- She had two children with her husband, Jacques: daughter, Diane Leslie; and son, Jacques.
- Husband, Jacques Leslie, was a Pittsburgh attorney who became a prominent entertainment lawyer after their move to California.
Her son, also Jacques Leslie, was a Los Angeles Times foreign correspondent, who was wounded covering the war in Vietnam in 1972.
His wife's name is Leslie, so she goes by the name of Leslie Leslie. - With her press pass, Aleen Leslie gained entrance to Columbia Pictures, talking her way into a writing job.
She started out working on shorts of the "The Three Stooges".
She was one of about two dozen female screenwriters at the time.
In 1938, Leslie joined the Screenwriter's Guild, now the WGA, and was its oldest living member up until her death.
Wrote a weekly column, "One Girl Chorus," for the Pittsburgh Press, 1933-1943. - Studied play writing at Ohio State University.
- She wrote stories and screenplays for Columbia features through 1941, returning to the studio briefly in 1949.
- Wetstein moved permanently to Hollywood in the late 1930s, and by 1938, she had talked her way into a job at Columbia Pictures.
- Leslie was also the author of the novels The Scent of the Roses and The Windfall, and wrote various plays for the Pasadena Playhouse.
- She is perhaps best known for the A Date with Judy media franchise.
- Based on her success with A Date with Judy, she built a career writing teen-driven entertainment like Henry Aldrich Gets Glamour and Father Was a Fullback.
- Her first screen credit was a Charley Chase comedy short, The Nightshirt Bandit (1938).
- Her last screen credit was Pardon My Nightshirt (1956), an Andy Clyde short based on the 1938 script The Nightshirt Bandit signed Aleen Wetstein; she did not participate in the rewrite, and was credited for the original story as Aleen Leslie.
- In 1938 she had submitted a story to Universal Pictures as a possible vehicle for Deanna Durbin; it was accepted but shelved, and was finally filmed in 1942 as a vehicle for Gloria Jean, It Comes Up Love (released 1943).
- She died in 2010, three days before her 102nd birthday.
- In 2010 she was the oldest member of the Writers Guild of American-West.
- She began attending Ohio State University, but dropped out during the Great Depression.
- She also was one of perhaps only a dozen women screenwriters in the entertainment industry at the time.
- After arriving in Hollywood, she quickly talked her way into Universal Studio to begin writing 2-reelers for The Three Stooges and ultimately worked at every studio. She had 19 credited movies to her name, including Father Was a Fullback, The Doctor Takes a Wife, Father is a Bachelor, Rosie the Riveter, The Stork Pays Off, and several of the Henry Aldrich series.
- Aleen Wetstein was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and was the daughter of Nat Wetstein (a traveling salesman) and Eugenie Mandel (a dressmaker).
- After becoming secretary of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, she began writing a weekly column called "One Girl Chorus" for The Pittsburgh Press.
- She adapted her weekly column "One Girl Chorus" together with Jerome Lawrence as a radio domestic comedy titled A Date with Judy, which she adapted and exploited across all entertainment forms possible at that time, including theatre, film, television, and comic books.
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