Trivia

Her unusual given name is said by her grandsons to have come about in the following manner: she was supposed to be named "Beatrice" but on the way to her christening, her mother remembered that Leatrice's father had once been engaged to a girl by that name. So she went through the alphabet (Beatrice, Ceatrice, Deatrice) until she came to a version she liked.

Before she became an actress, Louise Beavers was Leatrice's maid for 12 years.

She and John Gilbert had one daughter together, actress Leatrice Joy Gilbert.

Two of her grandsons, John Fountain and Gideon Fountain, are actors.

Her great-grandson is David Prior, who is an actor, a screenwriter, and a DVD producer.

Succeeded Gloria Swanson, Bebe Daniels, and Agnes Ayres as Cecil B. DeMille's female star. She starred in the following DeMille productions: Saturday Night (1922), Manslaughter (1922), The Ten Commandments (1923), and Triumph (1924).

Interviewed in "Talking to the Piano Player: Silent Film Stars, Writers and Directors Remember" by Stuart Oderman (BearManor Media).

Had a New Orleans accent.

Profiled in "Speaking of Silents: First Ladies of the Screen" by William Drew, 1997.