Leah Baird (born Ada Frankenstein; June 20, 1883 – October 3, 1971) was an American actress and screenwriter. Life Baird was born in Champaign County, Illinois. on June 20, 1883, the daughter of William Frankenstein and Bertha Schreiver Frankenstein Rathjen. She had two older sisters, Augusta and Mathilda. Both her parents were alcoholics and her mother was one of the richest madams in Central Illinois. An early star for Vitagraph Studios, Baird began her film career in 1910 in Jean and the Waif opposite Jean, the Vitagraph Dog. She played several leads in William F. Brady's troupe, opposite Douglas Fairbanks. In the late 1910s she played in 15 episodes of the serial Wolves of Kultur. Baird wrote and produced film during the 1920s. Baird later became a screenwriter and contributed to a number of Clara Bow features. She was married to producer Arthur F. Beck. Baird was under contract to Warner Bros. for seventeen years, where she appeared in character roles and as an extra. Partial filmography Actress Jean and the Waif (1910, Short) Chumps (1912, Short) - Terpsine - the Cause A Cure for Pokeritis (1912, Short) All for a Girl (1912, Short) - Mrs. Gardner Red and White Roses (1913, Short) - Beth Whitney Hearts of the First Empire (1913, Short) - Beatrice Ivanhoe (1913) - Rebecca of York Absinthe (1914) - Madame Dumas Neptune's Daughter (1914) - Princess Olga The Man That Might Have Been (1914, Short) - Mrs. William Rudd Lights of New York (1916) - Yolande Cowles The People vs. John Doe (1916) - Woman Lawyer The Devil's Pay Day (1917) - Jean Haskins One Law for Both (1917) - Helen Sins of Ambition (1917) - Laurette Maxwell The Fringe of Society (1917) - Myra Strang A Sunset (1917) Moral Suicide (1918) - Fay Hope Life or Honor? (1918) - Helen West Wolves of Kultur (1918) - Alice Grayson The Echo of Youth (1919) - Olive Martin As a Man Thinks (1919) - Elinor Clayton The Volcano (1919) - Ruth Carroll The Capitol (1919) - Margaret Kennard / Agnes Blake Cynthia of the Minute (1920) - Cynthia The Heart Line (1921) - Fancy Gray The Bride's Confession (1921) Don't Doubt Your Wife (1922) - Rose Manning When the Devil Drives (1922) - Blanche Mansfield When Husbands Deceive (1922) - Viola Baxter Is Divorce A Failure? (1923) - Carol Lockwood The Destroying Angel (1923) - Mary