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.