Helen Ferguson
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From Wikipedia Helen Ferguson (July 23, 1901 – March 14, 1977) was an American actress later turned publicist. Born in Decatur, Illinois in 1901, she graduated from Nicholas High School of Chicago and the Academy of Fine Arts. Ferguson was a newspaper reporter before entering the motion picture field. It is thought she made her debut in films in 1914, although her first recorded credits are in 1917. She soon starred in roles for Fox Film Corporation by 1920, which is when her career really took off with films such as Hungry Hearts (1922) for Samuel Goldwyn. She was cast mostly in westerns, comedies, and serials. She was selected as a WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1922. She married actor William Russell in 1925, but he died in 1929. The following year, she married wealthy banker Richard L. Hargreaves. Following her second marriage, she left films to concentrate on stage work, though she only received minimal success in this medium. In 1933, she left acting altogether to focus on publicity work, a job she became very successful in and which made her a major power in Hollywood, because she was representing such big name stars as Henry Fonda, Barbara Stanwyck, and Robert Taylor, among others. Ferguson represented actress Loretta Young for more than nineteen years. She kept reporters from needlessly disturbing Young and was considered one of the foremost "suppress agents" in Hollywood. In 1941, her second husband died, and she retired from publicity work in 1967. She died in Clearwater, Florida in 1977, aged 75. She is buried at Forest Lawn Glendale in Glendale, California. Helen Ferguson has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to Motion Pictures at 6153 Hollywood Blvd.
Known for
Credits
Poor Aubrey (1930)
as Amy Piper
Temper (1915)
Actor
Burning Daylight (1920)
as Dora
Going Some (1920)
as Jean Chapin
The Mutiny of the Elsinore (1920)
as Margaret West
My Neighbor's Wife (1925)
as Florence Keaton
Roughshod (1922)
as Betty Lawson
The Valley of Hate (1924)
as Millie Hendricks
The Famous Mrs. Fair (1923)
as Peggy
The Call of the North (1921)
as Elodie Albret
The Isle of Hope (1925)
as Dorothy Duffy
Casey of the Coast Guard (1926)
as Doris Warren
The Small Town Guy (1917)
as Eleanor Ramsdell
The Right of the Strongest (1924)
as Mary Elizabeth Dale
Filling His Own Shoes (1917)
as Rosa
The End of the Road (1919)
as Maid
The Crusader (1922)
as Mary
Straight from the Shoulder (1921)
as Maggie
Kid Millions (1934)
as Goldwyn Girl (uncredited)
The Challenge of the Law (1920)
as Madeline Du Barre
The Great Victory, Wilson or the Kaiser? The Fall of the Hohenzollerns (1919)
as Amy Gordon
Life's Greatest Problem (1918)
as Miriam Craig
The Gamblers (1919)
as Catherine Ames
According to Hoyle (1922)
as Doris Mead
The Wampas Baby Stars of 1922 (1922)
as Self
Jaws of Steel (1927)
as Mary Warren
The Scarlet West (1925)
as Nestina
In Old California (1929)
as Dolores Radanell
Within the Law (1923)
as Helen Morris
The Lost Battalion (1919)
as The Stenographer
Miss Lulu Bett (1921)
as Diana Deacon
Shod with Fire (1920)
as Ann Lytton
Just Pals (1920)
as Mary
Valley of Hate (1924)
as Millie Hendricks
To a Finish (1921)
as Doris Lane
Scarlet Pages (1930)
as Miss Hutchinson
Brass (1923)
as Rosemary Church
The Freeze-Out (1921)
as Zoe Whipple
Gift o' Gab (1917)
as Peggy Dinsmore
Hungry Hearts (1922)
as Sara
Taxi! Taxi! (1927)
as (uncredited)
The Flaming Hour (1922)
as Lucille Danby
The Cloud Rider (1925)
as Zella Wingate
Chalk Marks (1924)
as Virginia Thompson
Double Dealing (1923)
as The Slavey
Fools For Luck (1917)
as Brunhilda
The Unknown Purple (1923)
as Ruth Marsh
Spook Ranch (1925)
as Elvira
Finders Keepers (1929)
Actor
The Right Way (1921)
as The Poor Boy's Sweetheart