Helen Broderick
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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 was understudy to the actress Ina Claire in the Broadway play 'Jumping Jupiter'. One night, Claire was unable to perform and Helen Broderick stood in as the romantic lead. She soon had the audience in stitches, trampling about the stage like an elephant, rolling her big saucer eyes and attempting to croon 'Cuddle Near Me All Day Long' in her rather unique voice. The romance was no more and instead turned into a popular farce with Helen now permanently installed in the lead role. For a while, Helen partnered her husband, Lester Crawford, in vaudeville. In the 1920's, she enjoyed success on Broadway, most notably in 'Fifty Million Frenchmen' ( a role she took to Hollywood in 1931). Her best parts in the movies were as the perennial friend or chaperone of the heroine (an earlier Eve Arden), delivering acidic wisecracks in her inimitable dead-pan manner. She was particularly amusing in Top Hat (1935) and Swing Time (1936) with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers; and in The Rage of Paris (1938) with Danielle Darrieux.
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Sombrero de copa
Madge Hardwick
Swing Time
Mabel Anderson
The Road to Reno
Aunt Minerva
She's Got Everything
Aunt Jane
Stage Door Canteen
Helen Broderick
Chip Off the Old Block
Glory Marlow Sr.
The Rage of Paris
Gloria Patterson
No, No, Nanette
Mrs. Susan Smith
Her Primitive Man
Mrs. Winthrop
The Bride Walks Out
Mattie Dodson
Naughty But Nice
Aunt Martha Hogan
Because of Him
Nora
Meet the Missus
Emma Foster
3 Is a Family
Irma
Service de Luxe
Pearl
Father Takes a Wife
Aunt Julie
Murder on a Bridle Path
Hildegarde Withers
Virginia
Theo Clairmont
Nice Girl?
Cora Foster
Stand Up and Fight
Amanda Griffith
Love on a Bet
Aunt Charlotte
To Beat the Band
Mrs. Freeda McCrary
We're on the Jury
Agnes Dean
The Life of the Party
Pauline
Honeymoon in Bali
Lorna "Smitty" Smith
Radio City Revels
Gertie
50 Million Frenchmen
Violet
Love, Honor and Goodbye
Mary Riley
The Captain is a Lady
Nancy Crocker
Smartest Girl in Town
Gwen