Helen Twelvetrees
Helen Twelvetrees (born December 25, 1907 in New York , NY , † December 12, 1958 in Santa Barbara , California , actually Helen Marie Jurgens ) was an American actress of the early talkies .
Career
The actress studied theater at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and, like many other colleagues, went to Hollywood during the upheaval from silent films to talkies . After appearances in several musicals , the election to one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars and the change to the newly founded RKO in 1929 led to the rise to Leading Lady . After the success of Her Man , Twelvetrees specialized in tearful melodramas in which she had to endure all kinds of ailments on the way to happiness. The titles were mostly program: Unashamed , Disgraced , Unmarried or Bad Company .
The competition from Ann Harding and Irene Dunne , who also excelled in the genre at RKO, prevented the ascent to the top star. Her most famous appearance today was in the cheaply produced Western Enmity with William Boyd , in which Clark Gable made his sound film debut in early 1931.
She left the studio in 1933 and took on the lead role at Paramount Pictures - alongside Maurice Chevalier - in Bedtime Story after Ann Dvorak and Sylvia Sidney had both turned down the part. Towards the end of the decade, she ended her career in which she was the victim of countless jokes about her surname. Twelvetrees is the born leading actress for the dog star Rin Tin Tin .
She passed away voluntarily in 1958. She made over 30 films in her lifetime.
Web links
- Helen Twelvetrees in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Helen Twelvetrees in the Internet Broadway Database (English)
- Biography in the New York Times
- Small biography with some photos
- Images by Helen Twelvetrees In: Virtual History
Individual evidence
- ↑ Helen Twelvetrees' Rotten Luck-Silver Screenings says: Helen Twelvetrees - Biography of a Tragic Pre-Code Beauty & Talent. November 9, 2014, Retrieved June 4, 2020 (American English).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Twelvetrees, Helen |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jurgens, Helen Marie (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | US-american actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 25, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City , New York , United States |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 12, 1958 |
| Place of death | Santa Barbara , California , United States |