Helen Broderick
Personal Info
Know For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1891-08-11 (68 years old)
Deathday
1959-09-25
Place of Birth
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Also known As
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Helen Broderick
Biography
Helen Broderick (August 11, 1891 - September 25, 1959) was a wonderfully funny character comedienne with vaudeville and stage experience, a close friend of Jeanne Eagels. The story goes, that at the age of 14 she ran away from home, because her mother, who appeared in operatic comedy, was totally obsessed by the theatre. Paradoxically, all the people she met turned out to be performers, and Helen (who needed to make a living, after all) ended up where she hadn't wanted to end up - on the stage. She started out as a chorus girl in the first Ziegfeld Follies in 1907. Her talent for comedy was discovered quite by accident. In 1911, she w...
Acting
1935
as Madge Hardwick
1936
as Mabel Anderson
1941
as Cora Foster
1938
as Gloria Patterson
1936
as Hildegarde Withers
1941
as Aunt Julie
1939
as Lorna "Smitty" Smith
1936
as Mattie Dodson
1939
as Amanda Griffith
1936
as Aunt Charlotte
1937
as Aunt Jane
1937
as Pauline
1944
as Irma
1938
as Pearl
1936
as Gwen
1937
as Agnes Dean
1938
as Gertie
1941
as Theo Clairmont
1937
as Emma Foster
1944
as Glory Marlow Sr.
1935
as Mrs. Freeda McCrary
1939
as Aunt Martha Hogan
1944
as Mrs. Winthrop
1945
as Mary Riley
1943
as Helen Broderick
1946
as Nora
1931
as Violet
1940
as Nancy Crocker
1940
as Mrs. Susan Smith
1938
as Aunt Minerva
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