Elsie Leslie (August 14, 1881 – October 31, 1966) was an American actress. She was America's first child star and the highest paid and most popular child actress of her era.
Leslie had pen pals everywhere with whom she maintained a lively correspondence, including leading actors, actresses and statesmen. "I like to write letters," she once said, "but I like to get the answers still better."[3] Two of her correspondents were young girls nearer her own age, one younger, the other a year older: Eleanor Roosevelt and Helen Keller. Keller and Leslie met in 1890 when the latter was starring in Mark Twain'sThe Prince and the Pauper. Both girls shared a friendship with Leslie's patron, John Spaulding, and he called them his "two darlings".[4]
Leslie took a break from acting, but returned to the stage in 1898 to play parts in The Rivals, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Christian, The Taming of the Shrew, The Man on the Case in 1907, and Louis N. Parker's Disraeli with George Arliss in 1911; but after years away from the stage she could not recapture the old magic as an adult. She had married Jefferson Winter, son of drama critic William Winter, but this marriage ended in divorce, after which Leslie married Edwin J. Millikin in 1918. She and her husband traveled the world until they returned to New York City, where she lived until her death in 1966.[5]
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