Helen Parrish (1924 - 1959)

Helen Parrish started in movies at the age of five, getting her first part playing Babe Ruth’s daughter in the silent film Babe Comes Home in 1927. She was featured in the Our Gang comedy shorts and sometimes played the lead character as a child, co-starring with some of the great female stars of the […]

Helen Reddy (1941 - 2020)

Helen Reddy The #1 Grammy-winning “I Am Woman” became not only THE anthem of the feminist movement during the radical 1970s, but also the signature song for its lovely, crop-haired, reddish-haired composer and singer Helen Reddy. Three decades later this is the hit people still remember her for, despite the fact she had a host […]

Helen Richardson Dreiser (1894 - 1955)

Helen Richardson was the cousin of Theodore Dreiser, and from 1919 until they married in 1944, his mistress. Helen wished for a movie career, but after only a few movies (one with Mabel Normand) gave it up to be with Theodore in New York. After his first wife died in 1942, she married him. After […]

Helen Stenborg (1925 - 2011)

Actress. She was seen in a large number of stage and television productions for more than 60 years. Raised in Minneapolis she had early theatrical ambitions and moved to New York in her late teens; after appearing in some Broadway touring productions she spent World War II entertaining troops in Europe and was to meet […]

Helen Stephens (1918 - 1994)

Helen Stephens, nicknamed the “Fulton Flash” after her birthplace, Fulton, Missouri, was a strong athlete in sprint events—she never lost a race in her entire career—and also in weight events such as the shot put and discus thro. She won national titles in both categories. When she was 18, Stephens participated in the 1936 Summer Olympics. […]

Helen Suzman (1917 - 2009)

Helen Suzman, a lifelong citizen of South Africa, was born Helen Gavronsky in 1917 to Samuel and Frieda Gavronsky, Jewish Lithuanian immigrants. Suzman matriculated in 1933 from Parktown Convent, Johannesburg. She studied as an economist and statistician at Witwatersrand University. At age 19, she married Dr Moses Suzman (died 1994), who was considerably older than […]

Helen Taft (1861 - 1943)

Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, the fourth child of Judge John Williamson Herron (1827–1912), a law partner of Rutherford B. Hayes, and Harriet Collins (1833–1902), Nellie graduated from the Cincinnati College of Music and taught school briefly before her marriage. With her parents, she attended the twenty-fifth wedding anniversary celebration of President and Mrs. Rutherford B. […]

Helen Twelvetrees (1908 - 1958)

Actress. Born in New York, she attended a fine arts school as a teen, and inspired by her love for moving film took her talents to Hollywood, landing numerous roles in silent films. She later went on to act with such stars as Clark Gable and John Barrymore. Some of her more popular films include […]

Helen Vinson (1905 - 1999)

Actress. After appearing on Broadway, she starred in around forty feature films. Born Helen Rulfs, she was raised in Texas by a well-off oil family. While a child, Helen developed a lifelong enjoyment of horses; she studied at the University of Texas (where she met the director of the Houston Little Theater), but eloped for […]

Helen Wagner (1918 - 2010)

Wagner played the soap opera’s matriarch, Nancy Hughes, from its debut on April 2, 1956, until her death. She is acknowledged by the Guinness Book of Records for having the longest run in a single role on television. In fact, Wagner spoke the show’s very first line, “good morning, dear,” and would go on to […]

Helen Walker (1920 - 1968)

Actress. She began her film career after an acclaimed performance in the play “Jason” (1942) on Broadway. Her film debut was in “Lucky Jordan” (1942). Her film credits include “Brewster’s Millions” (1946), “Call Northside 777” (1948), and her final film, “The Big Combo” (1955). (bio by: Lanie)  Family links:  Parents:  Russell W. Walker (1895 – […]

Helen Walsh (1970 - 1931)

Actress, dancer. Born in 1908, Helen Walsh was one of the Ziegfeld Girls. Known for performances on Broadway such as Whoopee! (1929), Simple Simon (1930, Smiles (1930-1931) and was a featured performer in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1931. Died after receiving burns in a yacht explosion. (bio by: Marisa Shute)

Helen West Heller (1970 - 1955)

Artist. Known for her oil painting, egg tempera, mosaic and especially her wood engraving.  (bio by: Laurie)  Family links:  Spouse:  Roger Paul Heller (1888 – 1975)* *Calculated relationship

Helen Whitney (1875 - 1944)

Helen Whitney was the daughter of Clara Louise Stone, and her husband, John Milton Hay, who served as the United States Ambassador to Great Britain and United States Secretary of State. Helen Hay was a poet and an author of books for children. A number of her poems were published in Harper’s Magazine. One of her […]

Helena Carroll (1928 - 2013)

Actress. Born in Glasgow to parents of Irish descent, her father was acclaimed playwright Paul Vincent Carroll (“Shadow and Substance”, 1937), her mother was a dress designer. Influenced by her father’s profession, she took to the stage. She received private schooling and began her stage career locally (for which included appearing in some of her […]

Helena Carroll (1928 - 2013)

Actress. Born in Glasgow to parents of Irish descent, her father was acclaimed playwright Paul Vincent Carroll (“Shadow and Substance”, 1937), her mother was a dress designer. Influenced by her father’s profession, she took to the stage. She received private schooling and began her stage career locally (for which included appearing in some of her […]

Helena Gleichen (1873 - 1947)

British Aristocracy,  Artist. Born Helena Emily Gleichen in London, the youngest child of Viktor, Prinz zu Hohenlohe-Lanenburg and Lady Laura Seymour at which time she was granted the title of Gräfin von Gleichen. She provided some illustrations for the Younghusband Expedition to Tibet in 1904. During the First World War, in September 1917, she relinquished […]

Helena Rubinstein (1872 - 1965)

Rubinstein was the eldest of eight daughters born to a Jewish couple, Augusta – Gitte (Gitel) Shaindel Rubinstein née Silberfeld and Horace – Naftoli Hertz Rubinstein; who was a shopkeeper in Kraków.  Rubinstein emigrated from Poland to Australia in 1902, with no money and little English. Her stylish clothes and milky complexion did not pass […]

Helena Rubinstein Courielli (1870 - 1965)

Entrepreneur. Born Chaja Rubinstein in Krakow, Poland, she was the founder of the Helena Rubinstein Cosmetic Company, which made her the first self-made female millionaire. She emigrated from Poland to Australia, in 1902 and soon began to make her jars of beauty cream that sold to enthusiastic buyers. She eventually moved to Paris, where she […]

Helene Costello (1906 - 1957)

Actress.  She was brought to the screen at age three by her father,  matinee idol  Maurice Costello,  and played juvenile roles in over 60 films,  including “Cleopatra” (1912),  “Beau Brummel” (1913),  and “A Christmas Story” (1913).  In many of these she appeared with her sister,   Dolores Costello.  After World War I the sisters formed […]

Helene Drake (1922 - 1997)

Actress. Appeared in the award-winning 1956 adventure film “Around the World in Eighty Days.” (bio by: A.J. Marik)  Inscription:Rhoda Tomack Odrezin

Helene Stanley (1929 - 1929)

Dolores Diane Freymouth (July 17, 1929 – December 27, 1990), better known by the stage name of Helene Stanley, was an American actress and a live model for Cinderella and other Disney characters. Stanley was born in Gary, Indiana. Her parents were Michael Freymouth, who was an acrobat who worked in Europe, and Gerty Freymouth. Around 1953 […]

Helene Weigel-Brecht (1900 - 1971)

Actress. She married Berthold Brecht in 1929. She influenced the female characters in Brechts plays. She joined the communist party in 1930. On Feruary 28, one day after the Reichstags fire Brecht and Weigel fled with their family and friends to Denmark. They later lived in Sweden, Finland and the United States. In 1948 she […]

Helene Whitney (1914 - 1990)

Helene Whitney (July 4, 1914 – March 28, 1990) was an American actress who appeared in films in the late 1930s and 1940s. She was known as Helene Reynolds after her marriage. Whitney was born Kenyon Fortescue in 1914, but was known as Helene. Through her mother, Grace Fortescue (1883–1979), she was a grandniece (and cousin […]

Helene Winston (1922 - 2004)

Actress. Best known for her role as ‘Gladys King’ on the 1970s sitcom “King of Kensington.” She made numerous appearances on the television show “The Monkees” and guest appearances on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” “Sanford and Son,” “Bewitched” and “The Alfred Hitchcock Hour.” She also appeared in more than a dozen movies including the […]

Helga Anders (1948 - 1986)

Actress. She was a leading performer of Austrian and German television for a number of years. Born Helga Scherk, she was raised in Ruhpolding and Bielfield after her parents’ break-up and made her professional stage debut at age eight. To the end of her life she was involved in Munich theatrical projects though she was […]

Helmi Juvonen (1903 - 1985)

An artist who studied at the Cornish Art Institute in the late 1930s. Popular for her Native American drawings and paintings. Spent her last 25 yrs of life as a ward of the state of Washington, living at the Oakhurst Convalescent Center in Elma, Washington. She is buried next to her mother and sister (Irene […]

Helmi Juvonen (1903 - 1985)

An artist who studied at the Cornish Art Institute in the late 1930s. Popular for her Native American drawings and paintings. Spent her last 25 yrs of life as a ward of the state of Washington, living at the Oakhurst Convalescent Center in Elma, Washington. She is buried next to her mother and sister (Irene […]

Helmut Dantine (1918 - 1982)

Helmut Dantine enrolled at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and began his U.S. acting career at the Pasadena Playhouse. He was spotted by a talent scout and signed to a Warner Bros. contract. Dantine spent the early 1940s there, appearing in Casablanca (1942), Edge of Darkness (1943; his first lead role), Northern Pursuit […]

Helmut Griem (1932 - 2004)

German leading Actor. He is best known to audiences outside his native land for his portrayal of Max in Bob Fosse’s “Cabaret.” Max was the Baron who seduced both Liza Minnelli’s Sally Bowles and Michael York’s Brian Roberts. He also appeared in over 60 films and TV shows. He was also an accomplished theater actor. […]