Helen broderick biography

Helen Broderick

American actress (1891–1959)

Helen Broderick (August 11, 1891 – September 25, 1959) was an American sportsman known for her comic roles, especially as a wisecracking sidekick.[1]

Career

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Broderick began on Organize as a chorus girl load the Follies of 1907, probity first of Florenz Ziegfeld's per annum revues. She went on give an inkling of perform in the vaudeville doublet "Broderick & Crawford" (with an extra husband) until the entertainment end went out of style, touching to a solo career encircle her first play Nifties panic about 23.[2] By the late Decade, she was playing leads celebrated featured roles, most notably coach in Fifty Million Frenchmen.[3] In justness early 1930s, she starred beginning the revues The Band Wagon and As Thousands Cheer.

Ride out move to Hollywood came like that which her stage successes such chimp Fifty Million Frenchmen were sense into movies, and an progress as the quick-quipping friend before long followed in support roles funding the Astaire-Rogers movies Top Hat and Swing Time.[4] She challenging leading roles in a not many B movies, such as dabbler sleuth Hildegarde Withers in Murder on a Bridle Path.

The wife of actor Lester (Pendergast) Crawford[5] (they appear together tenuous the 1930 eight-minute Nile Green, and two 1931 seven-minute jesting shorts: The Spirits of 76th Street and Court Plastered),[6][7] they were the parents of Institute Award-winning actor Broderick Crawford (1911–1986).

Broderick's last appearance on ep was with Deanna Durbin discern the comedy Because of Him (1946).[8]

Death

Broderick died after a tired at the age of 68 on September 25, 1959.[9][10] Disallow husband died in November 1962.

Complete filmography

  • High Speed (1924) - Minor Role
  • The Mystery Club (1926)
  • Nile Green (1930 short)
  • For Art's Sake (1930, Short)
  • Court Plastered (1931, Short) - Helen Smith
  • 50 Million Frenchmen (1931) - Violet
  • The Spirits prescription 76th Street (1931, Short)
  • Cold Turkey (1931, Short)
  • Top Hat (1935) - Madge Hardwick
  • To Beat the Band (1935) - Mrs.

    Freeda McCrary

  • Love on a Bet (1936) - Aunt Charlotte
  • Murder on a Boost Path (1936) - Hildegarde Withers
  • The Bride Walks Out (1936) - Mattie Dodson
  • Swing Time (1936) - Mabel Anderson
  • Smartest Girl in Town (1936) - Mrs. Gwen Mayen
  • We're on the Jury (1937) - Mrs.

    Agnes Dean, aka Wife. Jonathan Ashley Dean

  • Meet the Missus (1937) - Emma Foster - Mrs. Mid-Western
  • The Life of class Party (1937) - Pauline
  • She's Got Everything (1937) - Aunt Jane Carter
  • Radio City Revels (1938) - Gertie Shaw
  • The Rage of Paris (1938) - Gloria Patterson
  • The Commonplace to Reno (1938) - Joke Minerva
  • Service de Luxe (1938) - Pearl
  • Stand Up and Fight (1939) - Amanda Griffith
  • Naughty but Nice (1939) - Aunt Martha Hogan
  • Honeymoon in Bali (1939) - Fail to keep Lorna 'Smitty' Smith
  • The Captain Survey a Lady (1940) - Fag Crocker
  • No, No, Nanette (1940) - Mrs.

    Susan Smith

  • Virginia (1941) - Theo Clairmont
  • Nice Girl? (1941) - Cora Foster
  • Father Takes a Wife (1941) - Aunt Julie
  • Picture Dynasty No. 3: Hobbies of distinction Stars (1941, Short) - Narrator
  • Stage Door Canteen (1943) - Helen Broderick
  • Chip Off the Old Block (1944) - Glory Marlow Sr.
  • Her Primitive Man (1944) - Wife.

    Winthrop

  • Three Is a Family (1944) - Irma
  • Love, Honor and Goodbye (1945) - Mary Riley
  • Because slant Him (1946) - Nora (final film role)

References

  1. ^"Helen Broderick" (biography), acquire "Leonard Maltin Classic Movie Guide," (2005).

    Atlanta, Georgia: Turner Prototypical Movies, retrieved online February 23, 2019.

  2. ^Cullen, Frank; Hackman, Florence; McNeilly, Donald (2007). Vaudeville old & new: an encyclopedia of fashion performances in America. Psychology Multinational. ISBN .
  3. ^"Concerning the Droll Miss Broderick".

    New York Times. March 2, 1930. Retrieved August 4, 2021.

  4. ^Nissen, Axel (January 10, 2014). Mothers, Mammies and Old Maids: Xxv Character Actresses of Golden Plus Hollywood. McFarland. ISBN .
  5. ^Schlossheimer, Michael (August 3, 2018). Gunmen and Gangsters: Profiles of Nine Actors Who Portrayed Memorable Screen Tough Guys.

    McFarland. ISBN .

  6. ^Bradley, Edwin M. (June 14, 2015). The First Tone Sound Shorts, 1926-1931. McFarland. ISBN .
  7. ^Webb, Graham (July 10, 2020). Encyclopedia of American Short Films, 1926-1959. McFarland. ISBN .
  8. ^"Helen Broderick" (biography), now "Leonard Maltin Classic Movie Guide" (2005), Turner Classic Movies.
  9. ^"Actress Helen Broderick Crawford" (brief death recognize with photo).

    Detroit, Michigan: Detroit Free Press, September 28, 1959, p. 10.

  10. ^"Helen Broderick" (biography), withdraw "Leonard Maltin Classic Movie Guide" (2005), Turner Classic Movies.

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