Helene Chadwick
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Helene Chadwick (November 25, 1897 – September 4, 1940) was an American actress in Silent and early sound films. Chadwick was born in the small town of Chadwicks, New York, which was named for her grandfather. Her mother was a singer who performed on the stage and her father was a businessman. She began making films for Pathe Pictures in Manhattan, New York. A director was impressed by Chadwick's talent as an equestrian, thus she began acting as a western star, but this did not continue with the exodus of film production from the east to the west coast. Signed by Samuel Goldwyn, Chadwick went to California in 1913 and entered silent movies in 1916. She was a star from 1920 through 1925. At the pinnacle of her acting career, she earned a salary estimated to have been $2,000 per week. From 1929 until 1935, she found success as a character actress when sound was being introduced to films. In the final five years of her life she was reduced to taking roles as an extra, playing "atmospheric parts". She was always optimistic that her fortunes would turn for the better. Helene made movies with Warner Brothers, Columbia Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount Pictures, and other studios. Her most noteworthy performances came in The Long Arm of Mannister (1919), The Cup of Fury (1920), Heartsease (1919), The Sin Flood (1922), Dangerous Curve Ahead (1921), From The Ground Up (1921), The Glorious Fool (1922), Yellow Men and Gold (1922), Dust Flower (1922), Godless Men (1920), and Quicksands (1923). In January 1919, Chadwick became engaged to Lieutenant William A. Wellman, an American pilot with the Lafayette Flying Corps. He had just returned from France and was cited for bravery for his valour in World War I. The couple had met at a party at the house of a friend. Wellman was signed to play a prominent role in an upcoming movie with Douglas Fairbanks Sr. The couple wed in July 1921, but in the summer of 1923 Chadwick sued Wellman for divorce on grounds of desertion and non-support. At the time of their separation William was directing movies for Fox Film. Wellman directed Wings, the first film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture, as well as many other notable films. Helene Chadwick died at St. Vincent's Hospital, Los Angeles, California, aged 42, in 1940. Her death was indirectly the result of an accident she suffered in June 1939.
Known for
Credits
The Bad Sister (1931)
as Amy, Sam's Wife (uncredited)
School for Girls (1934)
as Larson
Merrily Yours (1933)
as Mrs. Rogers
So Big! (1932)
as Townsperson (uncredited)
Morning Glory (1933)
as Secretary (uncredited)
Mississippi (1935)
as Atendee at Opening (uncredited)
Employees' Entrance (1933)
as Attendee at Meeting of Department Heads (uncredited)
Mary Burns, Fugitive (1935)
as Prison Matron (uncredited)
Pleasures of the Rich (1926)
as Mary Wilson
A Very Good Young Man (1919)
as Ruth Douglas
Frisco Kid (1935)
as Saloon Girl (uncredited)
A Wicked Woman (1934)
as Mother (uncredited)
The Masked Dancer (1924)
as Betty Powell
Night World (1932)
as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
The House of Hate (1918)
as Queenie Kate
Men Are Like That (1930)
as Clara Hyland
Good Dame (1934)
as Mrs. Crosby
The Still Alarm (1926)
as Lucy Fay
Godless Men (1920)
as Ruth Lytton
The Perfect Set-Up (1936)
as Mary (uncredited)
Modern Mothers (1928)
as Adele Dayton
The Mystery of the Double Cross (1917)
Actor
Hard Boiled (1926)
as Marjorie Gregg
Blind Man's Luck (1917)
as Helen
An Adventure in Hearts (1919)
as Countess Lucia Bonavia D'Orano
The Cup of Fury (1920)
as Marie Louise - 'Mamise'
Why Men Leave Home (1924)
as Irene Emerson
Quicksands (1923)
as The Girl
The Re-Creation of Brian Kent (1925)
as Betty Joe
Reno (1923)
as Mrs. Emily Dysart Tappan
The Solitary Sin (1919)
as Mary
The Dust Flower (1922)
as Letty Gravely
Her Own Free Will (1924)
as Nan Everard
Father and Son (1929)
as Miss White
Girls (1919)
as Kate West
The Old Nest (1921)
as Emily at 22
The Dark Swan (1924)
as Cornelia Quinn
Hell Bound (1931)
as Sanford's Sister
The Honest Thief (1918)
as Edith Marbury
The Border Legion (1924)
as Joan Randle
The Bachelor's Baby (1927)
as Eleanor Carter
The Golden Cocoon (1925)
as Molly Shannon
Women Who Dare (1928)
as Stella Mowbray
The Glorious Fool (1922)
as Jane Brown
The Naulahka (1918)
as Kate Sheriff
The Long Arm of Mannister (1919)
as Sylvia De La Mere
Say It with Sables (1928)
as Helen Caswell
Love of Women (1924)
as Cynthia Redfield
Made in Heaven (1921)
as Claudia Royce
Stolen Pleasures (1927)
as Doris Manning
Yellow Men and Gold (1922)
as Bessie
Gimme (1923)
as Fanny Daniels
The Sin Flood (1922)
as Poppy
The Last of the Carnabys (1917)
as The Kept Woman
Vengeance Is Mine (1917)
as Marion De Long
The Challenge (1916)
as Alberta Bradley
Trouping with Ellen (1924)
as Ellen Llewellyn
Managed Money (1934)
as Mrs. George Myers
Wise Guys Prefer Brunettes (1926)
as Helene
Dangerous Curve Ahead (1921)
as Phoebe (Mabee) Jones
The Yellow Ticket (1918)
as Miss Seaton
Dancing Days (1926)
as Alice Hedman
The Woman Hater (1925)
Actor
Cupid the Cowpuncher (1920)
as Macie Sewell
Go-Get-Em Garringer (1919)
as Wilma Wharton
The Angel Factory (1917)
as Florence Lamont