Helen Twelvetrees

Helen Twelvetrees ( born December 25, 1907 in New York, NY, † December 12, 1958 in Santa Barbara, California, actually Helen Marie Jurgens ) was an American actress of the early sound era.

Career

The actress studied theater at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and went into the transition phase from silent films to talkies, like many other colleagues to Hollywood. After appearances in several musicals brought before the 1929 election to the WAMPAS Baby Stars and the change to the newly formed RKO the ascent to the Leading Lady. After the success of Her Man Twelvetrees was dedicated to tearful melodrama, in which she had to endure all kinds of suffering on the way to happiness. The titles were there mostly program: Unashamed, Disgraced, Unmarried or Bad Company.

The competition of Ann Harding and Irene Dunne, who also distinguished themselves in the genre at RKO, but prevented the ascent to the top star. Your still the most famous appearance was in the cheap manufactured Western enmity with William Boyd, in which Clark Gable made ​​his sound film debut early 1931.

She left the studio in 1933 and took over at Paramount Pictures starring - next to Maurice Chevalier - in Bedtime Story, after Ann Dvorak and Sylvia Sidney had the part rejected in each case. Towards the end of the decade, she ended her career in which she was the victim of countless jokes because of her last name. So Twelvetrees was born lead actress for the dog star Rin Tin Tin.

She retired in 1958 committed suicide.