Helen Twelvetrees

AKA: Helen Marie Jurgens

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1908-12-25

Brooklyn, New York, USA

Biography

American stage and screen performer, considered a top female star in the early days of sound films.

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {35}

Stella Godfrey

1935-10-09 5.4

The Spanish Cape Mystery

Ellery Queen's vacation is interrupted when murder strikes next door to his oceanside cabin. ...

Genre :Mystery, Thriller

Annabelle West

1930-11-10 6

The Cat Creeps

Disappearances and strange goings-on in a spooky old mansion. ...

Genre :Horror, Mystery

Helen King Carlyle

1931-10-16 4.6

Bad Company

A psychotic and sadistic mob boss is infatuated with the young wife of his newlywed attorney, and he plots to get him out of the way so he can have her to himself. ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

Sally

1933-04-22 8

A Bedtime Story

Parisian playboy plays father to an abandoned baby who interferes with his womanising. ...

Genre :Romance, Comedy, Music

June Perry

1932-05-20 6.7

State's Attorney

Corrupt alcoholic attorney Tom Cardigan is one of the best lawyers around, commanding the courtroom like a stage and often winning his cases. Mobster Valentine Powers, who employs Cardigan and put him ...

Genre :Drama

Millie Blake Maitland

1931-02-06 5.2

Millie

After a tumultuous first marriage, Millie Blake learns to love her newfound independence and drags her feet on the possibility of remarriage. The years pass, and now Millie's daughter garners the atte ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Frankie

1930-09-21 5.3

Her Man

A prostitute sees a friendly sailor as a way out of Havana's grimy underworld. ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Virginia Golden

1934-06-07 5

Now I'll Tell

A two-bit gambler somehow claws his way to the top. His love for riches is only matched by his love for his wife, but he is sometimes confused by which he loves most. ...

Genre :Drama

Flo Bennett

1932-01-19 7

Panama Flo

An engineer makes a thieving entertainer work off her debts as a housekeeper at his jungle mining camp. ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Elsa Elsbergen

1931-07-08 5.2

A Woman of Experience

It is 1915 in Vienna and the Great War has caused many casualties. Elsa, a beautiful prostitute, wants to help the war effort, but is rejected as a nurse, but a government official thinks that she wil ...

Genre :Romance, Drama

Carol Stevens

1937-11-06 4.4

Hollywood Round-Up

While filming a western on location, the stand-in/stunt double for an egotistical cowboy movie star proves his heroics when a "fake" bank robbery turns out to be the real thing. ...

Genre :Western

Allie Smith Riggs

1932-04-08 3.7

Young Bride

A newlywed discovers her husband is a cheating phony. ...

Genre :Drama

Joan Ogden

1932-07-02 6.3

Unashamed

A debutante's (Helen Twelvetrees) brother (Robert Young) stands trial for killing her no-good lover. ...

Genre :Drama

Peggy Bannon

1932-06-17 5

Is My Face Red?

William Poster writes a gossip column for the Morning Gazette. He will write about anyone and everyone as long as he gets the credit. He gets most of his information from his showgirl gal-pal, Peggy. ...

Genre :Action, Crime, Drama, Romance

Mary Ellen Cameron

1931-01-18 4.8

The Painted Desert

Western pardners Jeff and Cash find a baby boy in an otherwise deserted emigrants' camp, and clash over which is to be "father." They are still bitterly feuding years later when they own adjacent ranc ...

Genre :Western

Maryan

1930-05-18 6.5

Swing High

To avoid hostilities, Maryan, the ward of Doc May, a medicine show owner, induces Pop Garner, a circus owner, to join forces with her guardian. Doc May and Daphne, his wife, work as clowns; and Garry, ...

Genre :Music, Drama

Connie Rollins

1933-10-04 4

My Woman

A devoted wife helps her husband achieve success as a radio comic, but stardom comes at a price. ...

Genre :Romance, Drama

Gay Holloway

1933-07-07 6

Disgraced!

A lovely fashion model's dreams of marital bliss are shattered when her fiance jilts her. To make matters worse, her father kills the cad and she gets accused of the crime. ...

Genre :Mystery, Romance

Dorothy Blake

1929-08-18 0

Words and Music

Phil and Pete compete for Mary's love and also in a contest for best song written by a college student. ...

Genre :Comedy, Music

Margo Heath

1935-03-08 6

Times Square Lady

A young Iowa woman inherits her late estranged father's New York business, but the dead man's crooked associates think they can outwit the naive heir and seize control. ...

Genre :Music, Crime, Drama

Francine

1935-08-05 0

She Gets Her Man

Esmeralda is a cook in a diner in a small Arkansas town. When a gang of crooks moves into town and plots a bank robbery, Esmeralda unintentionally wrecks their plans, resulting in fame for Esmeralda a ...

Genre :Comedy, Crime

Lillian Williams

1933-12-09 6.2

King for a Night

A cocky prizefighter on his way to the bigtime in New York comes crashing down when his sister is involved in a murder and he takes the blame. ...

Genre :Crime

Joan

1936-05-09 6

Thoroughbred

Joan (Helen Twelvetrees) is a Canadian, adopted by Ma Dawson (Nellie Ferguson), a struggling horse breeder and trainer. Joan thinks "legs don't make a race horse, it's blood", and so she buys an unwan ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Annabelle West (edited from "The Cat Creeps")

1932-12-01 5.1

Boo

A wisecracking narrator mocks footage featuring Frankenstein's monster and Count Dracula. ...

Genre :Horror, Comedy

Pat Rogers

1939-05-20 3

Unmarried

Pals Pat Rogers and Slag Bailey try to collect a debt from Slag's recently deceased boxing promoter but wind up collecting his child, instead, and raising him as their own son. ...

Genre :Romance, Action, Drama

Helen Griswold

1939-02-10 3.5

Persons in Hiding

During a stick-up, a woman is excited by the criminal and joins him on his crime spree. ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

Molly

1930-02-02 0

The Grand Parade

No one suffered more magnificently in the early-talkie era than the inimitable Helen Twelvetrees. In Grand Parade, the actress is cast as Molly, the sweetheart of minstrel-show performer Jack Kelly. R ...

Genre :Drama, Comedy

Betty Dunn

1934-12-14 3.3

One Hour Late

A secretary catches the eye of her amorous boss while her regular boyfriend keeps trying to propose marriage to her. ...

Genre :Comedy, Music, Romance

Alice

1935-12-03 0

Frisco Waterfront

As California gubernatorial candidate Burton is about to cast his vote a truck crashes into the polling booth, critically injuring him and his opponent. A flashback traces his career from unemployed v ...

Genre :Drama

Self (archive footage)

2003-05-06 6.7

Complicated Women

Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered film content. No longer portrayed as virgins or vamp ...

Genre :Documentary, TV Movie

1934-03-02 6

Hollywood on Parade No. B-1

Short film in which Frankie Darro as a Telegram delivery boy visits various Hollywood locations to make deliveries. He visits the Los Angeles Pier and a Gala Hollywood Premiere. ...

Genre :

Dorothy May (episode 2)

1929-03-16 0

Blue Skies

Better known for her work in talkie "weepers," Helen Twelvetrees made a few preliminary appearances in such late silent films as Fox's Blue Skies. The audience was expected to believe that the twentys ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

1934-04-26 0

All Men Are Enemies

A British aristocrat falls in love with an Austrian woman before they are separated with the outbreak of World War I. ...

Genre :Drama

Miriam Holt

1929-02-24 0

The Ghost Talks

Miriam Holt hopes to solve the disappearance of a million dollars in bonds allegedly stolen by her late uncle. A team of crooks is following her, though, in hopes she'll uncover the missing money and ...

Genre :Comedy, Crime

Sheila Vane

1934-08-22 0

She Was a Lady

Before his daughter can formally claim her rightful title, her father dies. Now her blue-blooded American suitor finds that his father refuses to allow the two to marry as she is not a high-born lady. ...