Leah Baird was an American actress and screenwriter.
Baird in Stars of the Photoplay, 1916
Photo from The First One Hundred Noted Men and Women of the Screen by Carolyn Lowrey pub. 1920
1920
A Cure for Pokeritis is a 1912 short silent film starring John Bunny and Flora Finch. After Bunny's death in 1915, a re-release was announced with the alternative title A Sure Cure for Pokeritis. The film, a domestic comedy, depicts a woman who stops her husband's gambling habit by having her cousin stage a fake police raid on his weekly poker game. It was one of many similar shorts produced by Vitagraph Studios—one-reel comedies starring Bunny and Finch in a domestic setting, known popularly as "Bunnygraphs" or "Bunnyfinches"—whose popularity made Bunny and Finch early film stars. The film has been recognized as an historically important representative of its period and genre.
John Bunny and Flora Finch as George and Mary Brown
Coolidge's Sitting up with a Sick Friend from the Dogs Playing Poker series depicts a similar event, but with anthropomorphized dog characters.