Helen Mack

Helen Mack (* 13. November 1913 in skirt Iceland , Illinois as Helen McDougall , † 13 August 1986 in Beverly Hills , Los Angeles , California ) was an American actress .

Career

Helen Mack began as an actress as a child and appeared in numerous stage plays. Occasionally, she also appeared as a child actress in productions filmed at Astoria Studios on Long Island. In 1931 she signed a contract with Paramount Pictures , where she mostly played supporting roles. The actress was only offered a leading role in rare cases, best known in King Kong's Son from 1933, the sequel to the classic film King Kong and the White Woman . She had a prominent supporting role in 1940 alongside Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell in the classic comedy His Girl for Special Cases , where she played the girlfriend of a murderer. In the mid-1940s, she retired from the big screen after making 44 films.

After a not very successful career on radio, Helen Mack tried her hand at writing under the stage name Helen McAvity as a playwright and wrote, among other things, the drama The Mating Dance , which was performed off-Broadway in the mid-1960s.

Filmography (selection)

• 1923: Success
• 1931: The battle (The Struggle)
• 1932: Night over Paris ( While Paris Sleeps )
• 1933: King Kong's son ( The Son of Kong )
• 1934: Melody Cruise
• 1934: All Of Me
• 1934: Temple of Beauty ( Kiss and Make-Up )
• 1935: She - ruler of a sunken world ( She )
• 1936: World champion of all things (The Milky Way)
• 1937: The last train from Madrid ( The Last Train from Madrid )
• 1940: His Girl Friday ( His Girl Friday )
• 1944: The morning is ours ( And Now Tomorrow )
• 1945: Divorce

Web links

Commons : Helen Mack  - Collection of Images

• Helen Mack in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Helen Mack in the Internet Broadway Database (English)