Helen Broderick
Helen Broderick ( born August 11, 1891 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, † September 25, 1959 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles ) was an American theater and film actress with Irish- German roots.
Life
Helen Broderick came in 1891 as the daughter of opera singer William E. Broderick and also known by the stage name Mariani opera singer Emma Krause ( 1865-1948 ) to the world. Even Broderick's aunts Bertha and Ida Krause worked as an opera singer. Helen Broderick attended public schools in her hometown of Philadelphia and Boston. Despite objections from her parents, she began performing as a chorus girl at the age of 14 years. With the Ziegfeld Follies, she debuted on Broadway in 1907, where she soon predestined her comedic talent besides singing and dancing for humorous term roles in musicals. After working in musical comedies such as The Yankee Girl and Jumping Jupiter, she joined with her husband, comedian Lester Crawford (1882-1962), for several years in vaudeville theaters. 1923 Broderick returned to Broadway, where it was again mostly be filled in musicals, such as in the Irving Berlin hits The Band Wagon and As Thousands Cheer.
In the early 1930s, she took first film roles - initially in short films, made in her then lived in New York City, then in Hollywood. In 1931 she was directed by Lloyd Bacon alongside her husband in 50 million Frenchmen, a screen adaptation of the eponymous Cole Porter musicals to see in the role of an American tourist who had already played on Broadway. The New York Times provided confirmation that the film, in which the Porter songs could not be used, only slightly amusing moments, but Broderick have made " the best of its role ." From the mid- 1930s at RKO Pictures under contract followed comic supporting roles alongside Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in the film musicals I dance ' me in your heart into it (1935 ) and Swing Time (1936 ), in which Broderick respectively as sarcastic friend of Rogers occurred. In the comedy thriller Murder on a Bridle Path starred opposite James Gleason the lead female role of spinster sleuth Hildegarde Withers. In the film comedy The Bride Walks Out she stood next to Barbara Stanwyck in front of the camera. In 1938 she moved to Universal, where she worked the comedy whirlwind of Paris ( 1938) with Danielle Darrieux and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. turned under Henry Koster directed. At MGM she came in 1939 opposite Robert Taylor in the Western At the Battle of director W. S. Van Dyke used. Your last screen appearance was in the Deanna Durbin film I sing me into your heart into it ( 1946).
Helen Broderick died in 1959 at the age of 68 years in Beverly Hills. Her grave is in the Ferndale Cemetery in Johnstown, New York. Her son was the actor Broderick Crawford.