Leona Hutton

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Leona Hutton (1892 - April 1, 1949) was an American silent film star who had a brief career between the years 1913 and 1916.

Her motion picture debut came in The Crimson Stain (1913), a film short directed by Jay Lang. Among her co-stars are William S. Hart, William Russell, Charlie Ray, and Sessue Hayakawa. Hutton performed in forty-seven movies, her final role coming as Beth Taylor, in The Man Who Would Not Die (1916). The film starred Russell and was directed by Russell and Jack Prescott.

During World War I Hutton served overseas with the American and French Red Cross.

Hutton, also know as Mrs. Mary Epstein, committed suicide in 1949, by an overdose of codeine. She died in an iron lung in Maumee Hospital in Toledo, Ohio, eighteen hours after she was discovered by her husband. She had been confined to her home for ten weeks because of a leg fracture.

Coroner Paul Hohly returned a suicide verdict.