Helen Westley
Helen Westley ( born March 28, 1875 as Henrietta Remsen Meserole Manney in Brooklyn, † December 12, 1942 in Middlebush, New Jersey) was an American actress.
Life
Westley studied acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and began her career in the theater. She joined the theater company founded in 1914 " Washington Square Players", which later became the " Theatre Guild " founded in 1919. Westley starred in many Broadway productions of the Theatre Guild, for example, in George Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak House, in The Lucky One by Alan Alexander Milne and Edvard Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite.
In 1931 she played the female lead in the world premiere of the play Green Grow the Lilacs, on which the hit musical Oklahoma! based. Your last role on Broadway played Westley in 1939 in The Primrose Path.
1934, at the age of 59 years, Westley made her first film. Directed by Sidney Lanfield she played Mrs. Morris in Moulin Rouge. In the same year she starred opposite Anne Shirley and OP Heggie Marilla Cuthbert in the film adaptation of Lucy Maud Montgomery's novel Anne of Green Gables. 1935 Westley took over the role of Aunt Minnie in the film musical Roberta. On the side of the child star Shirley Temple, she played Anna in 1937, the blind Heidi. The following year she took over again on the side of Shirley Temple a role in Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. In 1940, she turned with Bette Davis grave, where is your victory, a year later played the cousin Phillipa in Adam had four sons on the side of Ingrid Bergman. Your last film role was played Westley as Aunt Jessie in My Favourite Spy.
Helen Westley was married from 1900 to 1912 with the actor John Westley. The marriage produced a daughter emerged. Westley died at the age of 67 years on 12 December 1942 in Middlebush, New Jersey.