Helen Haye

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Helen Haye (1914)

Helen Haye (born August 28, 1874 in Assam , India , † September 1, 1957 in London ; actually Helen Hay ) was a British theater and film actress .

Life

Helen Haye, who was born in India in 1874, first worked as a Latin teacher before turning to acting. In 1898 she made her theater debut in Great Britain and then went on tour with the theater companies of Frank Benson and Herbert Beerbohm Tree . In London she appeared in 1911 as Gertrude in Shakespeare's Hamlet . Her extensive repertoire also included roles in pieces by Ibsen , Shaw and TS Eliot . From 1925 she was also seen several times on New York's Broadway . From 1916 to 1921 she occasionally appeared in silent films , but it was not until the late 1920s that she was used regularly in front of the film camera. As the wife of the professor she was in Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps ( The 39 Steps , 1935) to see. She played Countess Vronskaya in the British Tolstoy film Anna Karenina (1948) with Vivien Leigh in the title role. Other film roles were the Duchess of York alongside Leigh's husband Laurence Olivier in the Shakespeare adaptation Richard III. (1955) and 1952 Lady Catherine de Bourgh in a BBC film adaptation of Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice . She appeared on stage one last time in 1953 as the mother of the last tsar in a production of Marcelle Maurette's play Anastasia . Haye also taught acting at Lady Benson's School and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art , where the later actors John Gielgud and Charles Laughton were among her students. She also stood in front of the camera with Laughton for the comedy Herr im Haus am ( Hobson's Choice , 1954).

Helen Haye, who was married to Ernest Attenborough, died in a London nursing home in 1957 at the age of 83.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1916: Honor in Pawn
  • 1917: Masks and Faces
  • 1921: Tilly of Bloomsbury
  • 1929: Atlantic
  • 1930: Beyond the Cities
  • 1931: Up to the Knife ( The Skin Game )
  • 1932: The Congress Dances
  • 1932: Her First Affaire
  • 1935: My Heart to the Queen ( The Dictator )
  • 1935: Drake of England
  • 1935: The 39 Steps ( The 39 Steps )
  • 1936: The Interrupted Honeymoon
  • 1937: Gypsy Princess ( Wings of the Morning )
  • 1939: The Spy in Black ( The Spy in Black )
  • 1940: The Terror of Marks Priory ( The Case of the Frightened Lady )
  • 1941: Kipps - novel of a simple person ( Kipps )
  • 1943: The Man in Gray ( The Man in Gray )
  • 1945: Madonna of the Seven Moons ( Madonna of the Seven Moons )
  • 1945: Gaslight and Shadow ( Fanny by Gaslight )
  • 1945: Something Was Left Behind ( A Place of One's Own )
  • 1947: Deadly Secret ( Mine Own Executioner )
  • 1947: Mrs. Fitzherbert
  • 1948: Anna Karenina
  • 1949: Der Spielteufel ( Third Time Lucky )
  • 1949: conspirator ( conspirator )
  • 1952: Pride and Prejudice (TV miniseries)
  • 1954: I am the master of the house ( Hobson's Choice )
  • 1954: Lilacs in the Spring
  • 1955: Richard III.
  • 1956: My Teenage Daughter
  • 1957: Operation Tiger ( Action of the Tiger )
  • 1958: Demon Weib ( The Gypsy and the Gentleman )

Stage appearances (selection)

Web links

Commons : Helen Haye  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Adrian Room: Dictionary of Pseudonyms: 13,000 Assumed Names and Their Origins . McFarland, 5th edition, 2010, ISBN 0-7864-4373-1 , p. 223.
  2. ↑ a b Helen Haye, British Actress, Dies at 83; Performer 59 Years Taught Top Players . In: The New York Times , September 3, 1957, p. 27.
  3. ^ Glenn Meredith Loney: 20th Century Theater . Volume 2, Facts on File, 1983, p. 308.
  4. ↑ Eugene Michael Vazzana: Silent film Necrology . McFarland & Company, 2001, ISBN 978-0-7864-1059-0 , p. 235.
personal data
SURNAME Haye, Helen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hay, Helen (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British theater and film actress
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Assam , India
DATE OF DEATH September 1, 1957
Place of death London , England , UK