Education
When she was young she sang in the church choir and later attended and graduated from Lambuth College in Jackson, Tennessee.
When she was young she sang in the church choir and later attended and graduated from Lambuth College in Jackson, Tennessee.
Snowden was from Covington, Tennessee. Soon after, she moved to California with the intention of becoming an actress. She got her first break on a Jack Benny Christmas show that was being televised from the San Diego Naval Base.
She walked across the stage in front of an audience of ten thousand sailors.
A newspaper piece with the headline Sailors Whistles Blow Blond Into Film Studio, followed. The column revealed that the morning after the show, agents from eleven Hollywood studios either phoned or came to Snowden"s door bidding for her attention.
There followed voice lessons and acting classes. She was instructed along with Mara Corday, Pat Crowley, Clint Eastwood, James Garner, and John Saxon.
Snowden became an actress appearing in the films All That Heaven Allows, The Square Jungle, The Creature Walks Among Us, I"ve Lived Before and Hot Rod Rumble.
Her last performance in movies was as Evie in The Comancheros (1961). Her last television roles came in episodes of This is Alice (1958) and Tightrope (1960). They had 5 children. A party given by Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh to celebrate the first television show performance of Rory Calhoun was the setting for their first date.
In 1971 Snowden made a comeback of sorts.
She played the role of Maggie in the Fresno Community Theater production of Cat On A Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams. She claimed to be nervous about having to appear in her slip during most of the play"s second acting
Even though briefly embarrassed, the actress professed a love of the stage. She liked it more in some respects than either television or films because of "the feeling of being more in touch with people."
Leigh Snowden died in 1982 of cancer in North Hollywood, California.