Helen Broderick
Birthday
1891/08/11
Day of death
1959/09/25 (68 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Also know as
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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 st...Read more
Acting
(1935) Top Hat
as Madge Hardwick
(1936) Swing Time
as Mabel Anderson
(1941) Nice Girl?
as Cora Foster
(1938) The Rage of Paris
as Gloria Patterson
(1936) Murder on a Bridle Path
as Hildegarde Withers
(1941) Father Takes a Wife
as Aunt Julie
(1939) Honeymoon in Bali
as Lorna "Smitty" Smith
(1936) The Bride Walks Out
as Mattie Dodson
(1939) Stand Up and Fight
as Amanda Griffith
(1936) Love on a Bet
as Aunt Charlotte
(1937) She's Got Everything
as Aunt Jane
(1937) The Life of the Party
as Pauline
(1944) 3 Is a Family
as Irma
(1938) Service de Luxe
as Pearl
(1936) Smartest Girl in Town
as Gwen
(1937) We're on the Jury
as Agnes Dean
(1938) Radio City Revels
as Gertie
(1941) Virginia
as Theo Clairmont
(1937) Meet the Missus
as Emma Foster
(1944) Chip Off the Old Block
as Glory Marlow Sr.
(1935) To Beat the Band
as Mrs. Freeda McCrary
(1939) Naughty But Nice
as Aunt Martha Hogan
(1944) Her Primitive Man
as Mrs. Winthrop
(1945) Love, Honor and Goodbye
as Mary Riley
(1943) Stage Door Canteen
as Helen Broderick
(1946) Because of Him
as Nora
(1931) 50 Million Frenchmen
as Violet
(1940) The Captain Is a Lady
as Nancy Crocker
(1940) No, No, Nanette
as Mrs. Susan Smith
(1938) The Road to Reno
as Aunt Minerva