Biographies: Helen Broderick - Actor

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Helen Broderick was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, on August 11, 1891, and died in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA on September 25, 1959. She married Helen Broderick, Lester Crawford (1914-1959), and had two children. Helen Broderick's most important works include Murder on a BridePath 1936, Swing Time 1963, Top Hat 1935, and No, No, Nanette 1940. Helen Broderick is a hilarious, delicious comedian with experience in vaudeville and Broadway. She left home at the age of 14 years old, to escape her mother completely obsessed with theatre, and ironically, all the people she met, were artists who pushed her into theatrical work, and needing to work to spend, she, against her will, found herself on stage. Then she was discovered as a comedic talent by chance, when she was replacing Ina Claire on Broadway, and when the main actress was absent for one night, she was replaced by Helen, as the romantic role on the stage was transformed into a comedic one. Fares, a coup that was welcomed by the audience, then her husband, Lester Crawford, participated in the vaudeville theater, and in the twenties she enjoyed great success in the Broadway theater, and in 1924 she wrote the story of the silent film High Speed 1924 and acted in it in a small role, and when the sound entered the films, Helen presented Several short films, before offering her first roles in a feature film in 1931 50 Million Frenchmen 1931, the same role that she had previously played on stage in the twenties, and she continued her cinematic work, and she often played the role of the heroine’s friend or companion, and in some films of category B. Low budget, she starred in Murder on a Bridle Path 1936 with James Gleeson, made some musicals with RKO Company, Top Hat 1935 and Swing Time 1936 with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, and presented The Rage of Paris 1938 with Danielle Dario. She retired in 1946 after making her last film, Because of Him 1946, with Diana Durbin, dying of a stroke 13 years later in Beverly Hills Hospital at the age of 68.

4 September 2021
Christina Aziz